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Colorado startup culture expanding beyond the Front Range with West Slope Startup Week
Even though rural counties dwarf urban areas when it comes to square miles, places like Denver and Boulder suck up most of the venture capital money.
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Wells Fargo cuts jobs in Denver for second time in two months
First it was jobs out of downtown, now the bank giant cuts tech center jobs
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Data shows Colorado added fewer jobs over the past year than previously reported
Jobs numbers get amended regularly, but the discrepancy in this latest report is large enough to raise some questions.
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Colorado jobs data paints a pretty grim picture for Denver employment
Colorado Springs and Boulder add thousands of jobs, but Denver’s losing streak, especially in construction work, continues.
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Inflation in Denver: Grocery bills are stabilizing but housing and child care cost keep rising
Prices in the metro area are up 1.9 percent from a year ago, as real estate market eagerly awaits interest rate cuts.
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Fewer new businesses popping up in Colorado
Filings might have dipped because a fee was reinstated, but economic uncertainty could also play a role.
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Frontier Airlines is cutting 43 routes, one in Denver
The budget airline will no longer fly from Denver to Norfolk, Virginia.
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TIAA closing Denver office, moving jobs to headquarters in Texas
The financial services company is a prominent part of Downtown Denver, with its name adorning one of the city’s biggest buildings.
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The big office building purge seems to have skipped the Cherry Creek neighborhood as developers continue flocking to the area
The affluent area 10 minutes from a pretty vacant Downtown Denver is creating spaces meant to entice workers.
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Judge temporarily halts Kroger-Albertsons merger while Colorado, federal lawsuits in play
Attorney General Phil Weiser says the supermarket giants’ deal hurts competition and will sell off 91 stores in Colorado.
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There are jobs to be had in Colorado, but the salaries are slipping
The state lags in AI jobs, a hot industry nationally, and has a lot of openings in health care.
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Denver-based dialysis giant DaVita pays $34 million to settle another whistleblower case
The lawsuit claimed the dialysis giant illegally paid doctors for referrals and bought off a competitor for its patients.
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Colorado economic development office approves millions in tax incentives for renewable energy and tech firms
The generous tax incentives for new facilities in the state come with job creation caveats.
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Meet the Colorado youth group that’s training wild mustangs and preparing them for adoption
“Mustangs have always been my favorite because they’re wild and they come in so we can help them get to be ridden.”
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Vacancy rate of Denver office space going up as empty space accrues in downtown
Empty office space has been piling up ever since the pandemic ushered in the era of remote work more than four years ago.
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Colorado small businesses want answers after being charged penalties and interest they say they don’t owe
The issue stems from a glitch in a new state computer system that companies are using to report information on wages and employment to Colorado.