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
On a good day, a group of Venezuelan migrants at work cleaning windshields at busy Denver intersections for 12 hours might make around $70 — splitting the money between 10 or more people. Despite the low payoff, that work has become a common sight across the city in recent months: Men and women standing on … Read more
Do you live along Colfax Avenue? The Denver Post would like to hear from you about gentrification in your community. The neighborhoods we’re interested in are: West Colfax, Sloan’s Lake, Sun Valley, Auraria, East Colfax, Capitol Hill, Congress Park, Montclair, Lowry Field and Northwest Aurora. If you would like to be interviewed by a Denver … Read more
Denver city government took a big step Tuesday toward turning the former downtown headquarters of The Denver Post into a courthouse when the City Council approved an $88.5 million purchase agreement for the building at 101 W. Colfax Ave. A city master plan projects it will need an additional 280,000 square feet of space for … Read more
