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Great Colorado mountain bike trails for newbies

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:14:14 GMT

Mountain biking can be intimidating, especially for beginners venturing off familiar trails. Yet not every far-flung fat tire destination requires the skills to tackle rock drops, steep downhills and exposed precipices. There are several dirt destinations around Colorado where newbies can get comfortable on singletrack trails and take their nubby tire skills to the next level.Here are a few of my favorites to check out this summer.EagleThirty miles west of Vail, where the mountains transition from pine and aspen trees to sagebrush, piñons, fields of tall grass, wildflowers and high desert landscapes, sits the town of Eagle, an oasis for mountain bikers of all skill levels. One clear sign of the town’s dedication to mountain biking is its network of singletrack sidewalks.Compared to many trails in the region, particularly those at Vail and Beaver Creek resorts, Eagle’s dirt routes are wide, smooth and don’t require lengthy climbs or descents. The area is home to a whopping 116 ...

RTD chief: Maintenance projects can be disruptive but the backlog needs to be handled

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:14:14 GMT

Providing transit services to a metro region is a complex endeavor that requires more than simply deploying buses to stops or trains to stations. An impressive level of orchestration happens behind the scenes daily to serve RTD’s thousands of customers safely and efficiently. When the system runs well, customers tell us.When maintenance projects and disruptions impact the public’s ability to travel as planned, people also let us know. Anyone who has recently used RTD is likely aware that a lot of work is underway, with multiple projects occurring simultaneously.While it is not our intent to inconvenience anyone, maintaining a reliable transit system is critically important. RTD is working as responsibly as possible to prioritize a backlog of projects that are essential to ensuring the safe and reliable delivery of services. Many maintenance projects have been deferred for years and must happen now. Continuing to wait any longer will introduce larger problems and unexpected issues.Ma...

16th Street Mall office building eyed for residential conversion listed for sale

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:14:14 GMT

An older office building along the 16th Street Mall is being marketed for sale as its owner continues to also consider a residential conversion.California-based Harbor Associates has hired CBRE to market the eight-story, 91,027-square-foot structure at 820 16th St., known as The George or Symes building.The building is one of a handful in Denver for which the city has received plans outlining a possible residential conversion. In the case of The George, those plans were submitted last summer, and floated the possibility of 95 apartments on the upper floors. Harbor Principal Joon Choi told BusinessDen Monday that the company is working to determine the best path forward for the building, which is minimally leased.Choi said the company hired CBRE to market the building specifically to owner-users, or companies that would both own and occupy the space.He said the company isn’t interested in selling the building to another investment firm like Harbor.Choi said if offers come in from own...

Owner of Cherry Creek gateway corners buys neighboring property

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:14:14 GMT

Weeks after selling one of his four corners along Colorado Boulevard, Doug McKinnon has expanded the size of another.The 51 N. Colorado Blvd. property has a multi-unit residential building on it. (Google Street View)The owner of real estate firm McKinnon & Associates purchased 51 N. Colorado Blvd. — home to a multi-unit residential building on 0.26 acres — this week for $1.8 million, according to public records.A McKinnon-led investor group already owns the undeveloped parcels to the north. The deal brings his holdings at the southwest corner of Colorado Boulevard and 1st Avenue to 0.45 acres, and the increased size could make the site more attractive to a developer.“We now have arguably one of the largest contiguous development sites in Cherry Creek,” McKinnon told BusinessDen.McKinnon’s group purchased four corner properties leading into the Cherry Creek neighborhood from the east in 2019 for $5.5 million. The other lots were the northwest corner of Colorado and 1st, and...

Top Colorado senator to step down, join Johnston administration

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:14:14 GMT

Sen. Dominick Moreno, the Colorado Senate’s majority leader, is set to leave the legislature and join Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s administration as deputy chief of staff for strategy, the mayor’s office said.Moreno served more than a decade in the Capitol, first as a House member and then as a senator, eventually rising to the second-most-powerful position in the chamber. Before joining the legislature, he represented Commerce City as a councilman. He joins Johnston’s growing administrative staff, which last month added veteran Democratic campaign organizer Jenn Ridder as chief of staff.Related ArticlesPolitics | On the eve of his first homeless camp sweep, Denver Mayor Mike Johnston shakes hands of inhabitants Politics | Denver’s new City Council aims to slow, or even reverse, the trend of gentrification Politics | A 194-room, $26 million hotel is slated to be Denver’s next homeless shelter Politic...

10-year-old girl suffers severed spine in I-70 traffic crash near Genesee

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:14:14 GMT

An athletic 10-year-old girl who loves soccer, ice skating, skiing, rock climbing and other sports, will never walk again after her spine was severed in an Interstate 70 traffic crash.Lucy Harris was paralyzed from the waist down after her family car, a 2016 Chevrolet sedan, was rear-ended July 15 while it was stopped in the westbound lanes of the interstate near Genesee.Lucy’s mother, Jennifer Harris, who was driving the car, said she checked her rearview mirror after traffic came to a stop and glimpsed a dark, large SUV in the left lane barreling toward her car just before the violent four-vehicle crash.“This has absolutely devastated our entire family, our entire community,” Jennifer Harris said. “Lucy is incredibly resilient, but this is absolutely life-altering for her.”Lucy suffered multiple severe injuries in addition to her spinal cord being severed, including broken bones, bleeding in her lungs, a brain bleed and internal injuries. She’s ...

Program at CSU Spur campus offers food startups menu of services to grow

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:14:14 GMT

The kitchen facilities at Colorado State University’s Spur campus had Farnosh Family at “steam jacketed kettle.”The Denver woman has made ghee, a type of clarified better that originated in India centuries ago, to sell at farmers markets and online since 2021. The big kettle that has a lever to tip it and pour is a dream come true for the businesswoman who has been brewing “micro batches” in her home.The kettle was the first thing Family noticed while on a tour of CSU Spur’s food innovation center. She has been using the equipment since June to test her recipe and figure out the next steps necessary to grow her business and reach more customers.“This has been really great for me to visualize a path forward,” Family said. “If I want to go into wholesaling and be able to have large production, I need to know how this works, what kind of yield I can expect and how long it takes.”Family is one of a handful of entrepreneurs usin...

Designer accused of stealing from $6M job countersues “degrading” neighbors

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:14:14 GMT

An interior designer who is accused of abandoning a $6 million job and stealing her neighbors’ high-end furniture has countersued for what she calls “degrading and threatening” clients.Hayley Servatius, who operates HLS Designs in Greenwood Village, said model Danielle Braverman is refusing to pay her and making “threats to destroy her business.”“Braverman has made similar false accusations and refused payment to interior design firms she’s worked with on other residential properties,” Servatius alleged July 28.Braverman and her husband, David Reis, bought their home at 6600 E. Ida Ave. in Greenwood Village for $1.78 million in 2020 with plans to demolish and remodel. They hired Servatius, who lives 500 feet away in a similarly valued home, to design the new interior.The $6 million renovation was scheduled to be complete by mid-2022 but wasn’t. When Reis and Braverman moved in last November, they found major design flaws. And their credit card bills showed items that had been bought...

Orange County judge arrested after fatal shooting in Anaheim Hills home: Reports

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:14:14 GMT

An Orange County Superior Court judge is in custody Friday after his wife was fatally shot in his Anaheim Hills home, according to reports. The shooting in the 8500 block of East Canyon Vista Drive was reported shortly after 8 p.m. Thursday.Investigators believe the shooting happened in or around the residence, Anaheim Police Department Sgt. Jon McClintock said. Police investigate a fatal shooting that occurred in Anaheim Hills on Aug. 3, 2023. (KTLA)Arriving officers located one deceased victim and arrested one suspect, but McClintock did not release any details to KTLA about the shooter or victim. “We’re not disclosing any information about the victim or suspect at this point,” McClintock said. Property records indicate the home belongs to Orange County Superior Court Judge Jeff Ferguson. Video captures terrifying moment driver runs man over in Torrance The Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register both reported that Ferguson was arrested for allegedly shooting his wife.A ne...

Controversial influencer released from house arrest while awaiting human trafficking, rape trial

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 10:14:14 GMT

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Andrew Tate, the divisive internet influencer who is charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women, won an appeal on Friday to be released from house arrest, his spokesperson said.Tate won't be able to leave the country. He also will not be allowed to be "in close proximity with any of the other defendants, any of the witnesses or any of the alleged victims and their immediate family,” his spokesperson, Mateea Petrescu, said in a statement.Andrew Tate gives a thumbs up while posing with a fan upon exiting the Court of Appeal in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, July 6, 2023. Andrew Tate, the divisive social media personality and former professional kickboxer who is charged in Romania with rape, human trafficking, and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women, lost an appeal on Thursday against a court's earlier decision to keep him under house arrest, his spokesperson said. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexan...