Denver, CO
Turin Bicycles Closes Its Doors After 51 Years in Denver
Alan Wonderful, the founding father of Turin Bicycles in Denver, fell in love with European light-weight bikes early on. “My pals and I explored the world on our bikes,” Wonderful says. “There’s a second if you get on the market, on high quality bike, the place the bike disappears, and it’s simply you flying via the air.” So getting a job at Chicago’s Turin Bicycles, one of many first within the U.S. to import high-end bike components from European distributors within the Sixties, was a no brainer for the 22-year-old bike lover.
At Wonderful’s suggestion, Turin expanded to Denver in 1971, bringing the then-humble cow-town one thing its small-but-devoted group of significant street cyclists wanted: entry to imported upper-end bikes and bike gear. Components weren’t the one import, although. Regardless that town’s oldest bike store simply closed its doorways after 51 years in enterprise, Turin ignited a full of life tradition of street biking that’s nonetheless in style in Colorado right this moment.
From the start, Turin captured one thing in Colorado. It didn’t take lengthy for cyclists from throughout the West to flock to Turin’s first location at 711 Grant Avenue. “We began to tug away from the pack and weren’t simply that neighborhood bike retailer anymore,” Wonderful remembers. “We had been getting prospects from all over the place since you couldn’t get the merchandise we had.”
Turin Bicycles ultimately bought its personal single-story constructing on Lincoln Avenue in 1991, the place the store would spend the remainder of its days. Turin’s longtime involvement with the biking group—“We sponsored plenty of golf equipment and charity races through the years,” Wonderful says—attracted each loyal prospects and constant staff. Mike Stejskal, a supervisor at Turin Bicycles, was employed in 2000. “Half my life has been spent on this store,” he says.
However as different biking retailers got here to city and the web loomed giant, Turin’s aggressive benefit light. Then, in 2020, the pandemic and the ensuing provide chain challenges arrived. It began taking twice as lengthy—and will value twice as a lot—to get bike components manufactured in Europe and Asia to the cabinets, and the store merely wasn’t in a position to get its prospects what they wanted in time. “The pandemic created what we felt was changing into inevitable for some time,” Stejskal says.
Wonderful, Stejskal, and long-time supervisor Dave Wileden determined in early March to shut the store. On the shop’s remaining day, April 2, folks from throughout town got here to buy bike merchandise with significantly decreased costs.
David Wrap, a bicycle owner for Radio Free Denver Biking Membership, perused the shop on its remaining day. “I’ve been coming to Turin for 25 years,” he says. “It’s an establishment, and the closure goes to depart a void locally.” (San Francisco-based condominium developer Camel Companions bought Turin Bicycle’s Capitol Hill actual property, and plans on growing an 18-story condominium constructing rather than the historic bike store.)
Wonderful hopes that his bike store is remembered as an asset to the group and for offering worthwhile service. “I’m joyful for what I’ve accomplished, and I’m happy with what I’ve accomplished,” Wonderful says. “I’m additionally prepared to not have the accountability of it anymore.” He’s wanting ahead to spending retirement along with his spouse, Deb, at their residence in East Denver. Though he isn’t biking as a lot anymore, Wonderful nonetheless reads business magazines to get the newest information.
Stejskal and Wielden have determined to halt their plan to reopen a motorbike store for the following few months, although the pair nonetheless intend on opening a service-oriented bike store within the metropolis. “This expertise has definitely made me stronger,” Stejskal says. “I’m going to take a while off and really experience my bike as an alternative of occupied with it in the course of the night time.”
ENGLEWOOD, Colo. — A Denver Health ambulance with a patient onboard was involved in a crash in Englewood Tuesday afternoon.
The crash happened around 4:30 p.m. at Logan St and the Hampden Bypass. According to Denver Health, the ambulance was transporting a patient to Swedish Medical Center when the crash occurred.
According to Denver Health, three additional ambulances were dispatched to the scene. One took the initial patient to Swedish Medical Center. The other two ambulances were for new patients who were involved in the crash.
Denver Health could not share how many additional patients there were or if the initial patient was injured in the crash.
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DENVER — 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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Denver, CO
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 — 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.
“I got to have my Oprah moment sending emails to these 10 winners and sharing the wonderful news,” Hazel said. “The response we’ve gotten — the quotes are, ‘This is life changing for my family.’ ‘You have no idea how much this means to me.’”
Marc Swerdlow, president of Grand Peaks, said the company’s 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.
“This property is not an affordable-housing project, but something we could do to provide affordable housing to teachers seemed so easy, so natural,” 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.
“Affordable housing is one of the barriers our Denver teachers are facing — and Denver teachers living in the Denver community is good for Denver and good for our students,” she said. “We hope other companies look at this and are like, ‘Wow, how do we replicate this?’”
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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