Chipotle vows to cut the amount of garbage it sends to landfills
Officials at Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. said they want to cut the amount of garbage that gets sent to landfills.
On Monday, the Colorado-based restaurant chain (NYSE: CMG) said it will commit “to divert half of all of its restaurant waste from landfills by 2020.”
Right now, the company's diversion rate is 40 percent, up from 31 percent in 2015.
To accomplish its 50 percent goal, Chipotle said it will implement new measures, including reducing food waste during preparation; increase recycling…
Flight Restaurant owners starting Midtown fine dining restaurant
Flight Restaurant owners Tom Powers and Russ Graham are opening a new fine dining restaurant in Overton Square.
The restaurant, Porch & Parlor, will take the place formerly occupied by Bar Louie at the corner of Cooper Street and Madison Avenue.
The Loeb Properties-owned space contains about 6,000 square feet. Construction is set to begin next month, according to a news release from Loeb.
Along with Flight, Powers and Graham operate Germantown's Southern Social.
‘Craft hot dog’ stall replacing Simply Seoul at Ponce City Market
Ponce City Market is adding fancy hot dogs to its vendor menu.
Drafts + Dogs, a new “cocktail and craft hot dog stall” from the team behind 18.21 Bitters, is expected to open on the first floor of the Central Food Hall at Ponce City Market in May, according to a news release.
The walk-up eatery takes the stall formerly occupied by Simply Seoul, located next to Lucky Lotus Juice Bar, with a menu of “locally-sourced, farm fresh ingredients” that go well beyond the typical ballpark franks.
Co-founders…
Julian Wright, Chef Michael O’Dowd team for new Mexican restaurant in Chandler
East Valley restaurateur Julian Wright finally will do something in the Chandler space he bought last year that was formerly occupied by Vintage 95.
In May, Wright will open a new restaurant in downtown Chandler called Las Palmas Cantina. It will serve Mexican cuisine inspired by the Yucatan region with an emphasis on coastal dishes.
“I’m looking forward to being a part of downtown Chandler and to bringing one of my favorite regions of the world to this community,” Wright said in a statement.…
New York food service supplier to open Dayton-area location
A New York City-based food service supplies retailer will open its first Dayton-area location.
Restaurant Depot will begin construction of its Harrison Township location at 3700 Keats Drive this month, according to a news release. The 55,000-square-foot store will employ about 40 people, and the retailer is investing about $7 million to build the facility.
Founded in 1990, Restaurant Depot supplies restaurants and other food businesses with such products as food, wine and spirits, kitchen supplies,…
Interest in second-tallest building in Denver snagged for $285.6 million
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Designing with Colorado’s Aging Population in Mind
The future of Denver not only promises transitions in urban development and infrastructure, but a massive shift in demographics. By 2040, the Colorado State Demography Office predicts that almost one out of every five Denverites will fall in the age range of 65 and above.
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Palace Construction to build Red Oak Park II
Boulder Housing Partners, the Housing Authority for the city of Boulder, selected Palace Construction to construct its latest affordable housing development, Red Oak Park II. Coburn Architecture will work with Palace Construction to expand Boulder’s existing Red Oak Park community.
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Flex space at 14 Inverness Drive East sells for $20.2 million
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Denver scaled back its once-active oversight of affordable homes program — then discovered widespread violations
Denver city officials looked ahead with optimism in the early 2000s as developers selling the first batches of income-restricted houses, townhouses and condos in new communities jump-started a nascent affordable homeownership program.
But that optimism came with a big assumption of responsibility on the city’s part. For most of the homes, the city took on the role in private sales, and later resales, of verifying the buyers’ income eligibility, calculating the allowed below-market sales prices and, perhaps most important, creating a centralized record-keeping system to track the fast-growing stock of homes in the program.
“There’s no obvious person or new industry to oversee everything that needs to be managed,” Jacky Morales-Ferrand, then the city’s director of housing and neighborhood development services, told The Denver Post in a May 2004 story. “That’s why we’re stepping in.”
Today, the city still is supposed to play those roles to ensure compliance with the rules of the progra..