Two Lakewood businesses push past vandalism, burglaries with humor

Two Lakewood businesses push past vandalism, burglaries with humor

The owners of a Lakewood fried chicken joint consider themselves optimists. Every time they’ve found their storefront window shattered by a rock, they’ve named the projectile, put it on display and got back to business. “I guess it’s just like an ongoing joke,” said Ivy Pham, co-owner of Kickin Chicken. “Now, we have three rocks, … Read more

Judge orders Aurora apartment building’s managers to help tenants

Judge orders Aurora apartment building’s managers to help tenants

An Adams County judge has handed a small victory to former residents of a condemned apartment building in Aurora by ordering the property owners and managers to immediately find housing for the dozens of families displaced. District Court Judge Sarah Stout on Wednesday afternoon granted a temporary restraining order requested by Javier Hidalgo the previous … Read more

Condemned Aurora apartment building’s residents plead for more time

Condemned Aurora apartment building’s residents plead for more time

Residents living in a condemned apartment building in Aurora pleaded with city officials Thursday for more time to find new housing ahead of a move-out deadline looming early next week. “We are humans. We are not animals,” said Emanuel Chabrier, 27, a renter for about three years. “This is not fair.” On Wednesday morning, police … Read more

East Colfax communities in Denver and Aurora seek help staying in area

East Colfax communities in Denver and Aurora seek help staying in area

Photographs line the walls, plants sit on windowsills and a Buddhist altar is arranged atop a dresser. Nearly every surface of the living room is covered by an item or memento collected by Thin Soe, Ye Ye Thin and their five children over the years in their three-bedroom apartment in Denver’s East Colfax neighborhood. Since … Read more

Spinelli’s Market opening third deli on Aurora Anschutz campus

Spinelli’s Market opening third deli on Aurora Anschutz campus

Spinelli’s Market will soon be serving salads, Italian sandwiches and take-n-bake meals to staff, patients, students and neighbors at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus. The Italian market and deli is opening its third location this May in a standalone 3,800-square-foot building at 12955 E. Montview Ave. in Aurora next door to The Benson … Read more

Milieu Fermentation taking Ursula Brewery space in Aurora

Milieu Fermentation taking Ursula Brewery space in Aurora

Beer drinkers will find a new brewery in a familiar location this spring when Milieu Fermentation opens in the former Ursula Brewery space at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. Founded by Rob Bessett — the award-winning former head brewer at both Ursula and Loveland’s Verboten Brewing — and Andrew Bergeron, who works as a … Read more