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
Hundreds of properties along a 5-mile stretch of East Colfax Avenue will have to include active, ground-floor commercial space in any redevelopment plans after the Denver City Council on Monday approved new design guidelines for buildings clumped along the city’s most famous street. The council unanimously supported applying the pack of new rules, collectively known … Read more
Denver city leaders on Monday will vote on new rules that could dictate how East Colfax Avenue looks and functions for decades. But whether those rules, already in place on other busy streets, are a poor fit for the thoroughfare remains a point of debate. If approved by the City Council, the package of proposed … Read more
