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The startup is aggressively adding to its team in Seattle while expanding into Portland and growing its footprint in the Bay Area.

The University of Denver Wednesday unveiled plans to transform the core of its campus into a bustling area for shopping and restaurants, starting with a $143 million construction project that will include a new freshman dorm and community commons area.

The initiative — called the Denver Advantage Campus Framework Plan — is a 10-year bid to turn the 125-acre DU campus into a vibrant college town in the heart of the city, Chancellor Rebecca Chopp said. It calls for bringing in more retail, affordable housing and restaurants to the campus and even a hotel on its north side.

DU wants to blur its campus boundaries while being more visitor friendly to surrounding neighborhoods, Chopp said. The school also will partner with the City of Denver on a variety of sustainable transportation options, she said.

“The needs of our campus and neighboring communities continue to evolve,” Chopp said. “We thought long and hard about what it means to plan for the future while keeping our core university ..

The building will be converted into office space.

Goodfellow Bros. Inc. began work on Wednesday to clear nearly a mile of solidified lava to prepare an evacuation route through Hawaii Volcanoes National Park in the event the only highway leading from the coast is cut off by the latest eruption of Kilauea volcano.

The National Park Service and Hawaii Department of Transportation signed an agreement to clear 0.7 miles along the coastal stretch of Chain of Craters-Kalapana Road as an alternative to Highway 130, which is under the risk of being inundated…

The historic Langham hotel abuts the 41-story tower at One Post Office Square, which is also set to undergo a large-scale repositioning.

In a new book, ZGF's Paddy Tillett writes about how Portland has evolved

The library in downtown Phoenix will reopen in the middle of June, according to KJZZ-FM.

The Burton Barr Central Library will open June 16 after a nearly yearlong closure following extensive storm damage.

The library, which sits on the west side of Central Avenue overlooking Margaret T. Hance Park, has received improvements including expansions in the children's area and computer labs, according to KJZZ.

Last July, a windstorm caused extensive flood damage throughout the library after winds shook…

Don’t hold your breath on the future of the Jacksonville Landing being hashed out anytime soon.

After Friday's abrupt notice by the city that it wanted Sleiman Enterprises to hand over the Jacksonville Landing — and Sleiman subsidiary Jacksonville Landing Investments’ “we’ll see you in court” response — indications are the entire issue will likely continue to drag on.

There are a few potential next steps, said First Coast real estate and legal experts: The city could file a lawsuit…

Another apartment has changed hands in Phoenix.

WASHINGTON – Two Arizona cities were among the fastest-growing in the nation in 2017, according to population estimates released last Thursday by the Census Bureau.

The bureau’s “2017 City/Town Population and Housing Unit Estimates” said Phoenix saw the second-biggest increase among cities in nation, adding 65,852 new residents over the course of the year, or almost 66 people per day.

That trailed top-ranked San Antonio by just 172 people – or less than half a new resident a day – and…