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6 things to do in Denver this weekend, July 15-17
đș Get your groove on on the World Dance Pageant this Friday and Saturday night time at Empower Area, the place dozens of DJs and artists will carry out throughout a number of levels.
đŠȘ When you’re up for a brief drive, The Golden Mill is throwing a “Reggae on the Creek” get together Friday night, that includes oysters on the half shell, shrimp cocktails, wine tastings and a reside DJ.
đș The annual Central Park Beer Fest returns Saturday night with a wide range of craft breweries, native meals vans and reside music. A part of the proceeds profit Pints for Prostates.
đ«đ· Larimer Sq. is internet hosting A Style of France via Sunday, spotlighting genuine French fare throughout a mixture of free and ticketed occasions.
âȘ Be a part of Our Girl of Mount Carmel Friday to Sunday for its 91st annual bazaar â one of many metropolis’s oldest. You’ll be able to get pleasure from scrumptious Italian meals, enter raffles, play bingo and extra.
đ· Benefit from the soothing sounds of the saxophone at Metropolis Park Jazz this Sunday, when hundreds of Denverites come collectively for the most effective free live performance collection within the metropolis.
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Suspect arrested after man shot to death outside Denver Rescue Mission
DENVER â Police in Denver arrested a suspect in connection with the fatal shooting of a man outside the Denver Rescue Mission Monday night.
Officers arrested Julian Huggins, 40, at the homeless shelter in the 4600 block of E. 48th Avenue shortly after arriving on scene around 8 p.m.
The male victim, whose name has not been released, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the police.
Witnesses told police that the Huggins and the victim were involved in a verbal altercation before shots rang out.
Huggins is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder.
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Rent-free housing: Denver real estate firm donates apartments to 10 early-career teachers
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Ten early-career Denver classroom teachers will get free rent for a year in a new upscale apartment building in the northwest part of the city â a novel, if incremental, approach to the problem of rising housing costs making it difficult for teachers to live close to where they work.
Real estate investment firm Grand Peaks, whose founders attended Denver Public Schools, are donating 10 apartments in the 533-unit Skyline at Highlands development in the Jefferson Park neighborhood. The teachers will be able to live there rent-free from August through next July.
Sara Hazel, the president and CEO of the Denver Public Schools Foundation, said the foundation chose the 10 teachers in a random drawing from among about 215 who applied. Only classroom teachers with zero to three years of experience were eligible.
âI got to have my Oprah moment sending emails to these 10 winners and sharing the wonderful news,â Hazel said. âThe response weâve gotten â the quotes are, âThis is life changing for my family.â âYou have no idea how much this means to me.ââ
Marc Swerdlow, president of Grand Peaks, said the companyâs founders, the Simpson family, wanted to do something for Denver teachers after reading news about pay disparities and the struggle to find affordable housing. The average apartment rent in the gentrifying city was $1,875 a month in the first quarter of this year, the Denver Post reported.
âThis property is not an affordable-housing project, but something we could do to provide affordable housing to teachers seemed so easy, so natural,â Swerdlow said.
The hope is that increasing access to affordable housing will incentivize early-career teachers to stay in Denver and in the teaching profession, Hazel said.
âAffordable housing is one of the barriers our Denver teachers are facing â and Denver teachers living in the Denver community is good for Denver and good for our students,â she said. âWe hope other companies look at this and are like, âWow, how do we replicate this?ââ
Five of the apartments are studios that would otherwise rent for between $1,725 and $1,900 a month. The other five are one-bedrooms that would rent for between $2,300 and $2,450 a month. The salary for first-year Denver teachers this past year was $54,141.
DPS leaders have floated the idea of providing teacher housing several times in recent years, but no projects have come to fruition. In 2018, the district scrapped the idea of converting a then-empty elementary school into rental apartments for educators after neighbors pushed back. The district leased the building, the former Rosedale Elementary, to the Archdiocese of Denver instead. It now houses Saint John Paul the Great Catholic High School.
Melanie Asmar is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Colorado. Contact Melanie at masmar@chalkbeat.org.
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Novo Coffee opens second location at Denver International Airport
USA. Local specialty coffee roaster Novo Coffee has unveiled its second location at Denver International Airport in partnership with the AVE Group.
Located at Concourse B, the new coffee kiosk features Novo Coffeeâs full coffee menu, including fresh baked goods and other takeaway items.
Popular local artist Pat Milberry was commissioned to design the coffee kiosk, as he did for the Concourse A location.
Novo Coffee is driven by its commitment to sustainability in producing its coffee and holds a Certifiably Green Denver certification.
Its partnership with the AVE Group started in October 2022, resulting in the first travel retail location at Denver International Airport. The opening formed part of the airportâs Small Business Enterprise Concessions programme â the first in its history. The programme was designed to level the playing field for small businesses which intend to participate in contract opportunities at the Colorado gateway.
The AVE Group was founded by experienced travel retail executive Kathleen Schafer to bring Novo Coffee to the airport.
For more than a decade, Schafer has seen her career grow at Denver-based concessionaire Mission Yogurt to become Vice President, establishing her own concessions company in 2015 while awaiting the right opportunity.
It came to fruition with this programme and partnership, and now the AVE Group closely collaborates with Novo Coffee to manage the daily operations of the two stores.
Schafer said: âWeâre proud to again partner with such a relationship-based brand as Novo Coffee, and to continue bringing its high-quality products to travellers at the airport.
âWeâre very grateful to Denver International Airport and the Small Business Enterprise Concessions committee for supporting small Denver-based businesses.â
Novo Coffee Co-founder and President Jake Brodsky added: âNovo Coffee is thrilled to bring more local, quality flavours to Denver International Airport.
âWeâve been working hard to sustainably grow and improve our small company since day one. Weâre excited to share our coffees with even more guests travelling to and through our hometown.â
Denver International Airport CEO Phil Washington commented: âWeâre thrilled to welcome Novo Coffee into a second location at DEN. We know our passengers already value the great products and service that Novo offers and will appreciate having an additional location at the airport to visit.
âI am also pleased to report that the AVE Group, LLC., Novoâs operational partner, is a Small Business Enterprise Concession Operator and woman-owned and operated business, a value thatâs deeply embedded within our Concessions programme.
âWe know that as DEN continues to provide opportunities for more businesses to share in the airportâs success, we all contribute to the economic health of our region.â â
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