By David Sabados
For 14 years, Victory Love + Cookies has been the second business tucked into Denver Bread Company on 32nd Avenue.
Now, the cookies are taking their place in the spotlight. Kristy Greenwood Bortz started as a baker with Denver Bread Company. While battling breast cancer 14 years ago, her friends and other local businesses raised money to help her pay medical bills, creating the “Kristy Greenwood Victory Fund.”...
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By Eric Heinz
Planners working with Regis University are looking to help the school enhance its location along Federal Boulevard with new development.
Cody Teets, the interim president of Regis, said the university wants to develop the 27 acres it owns along Federal Boulevard into retail spaces, mixed-income housing, outdoor gathering spaces, and office space.
“This development will serve both our neighborhood’s needs and the...
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By Rachel Lorenz
The recently landmarked Berkeley Park Chapel has a new owner—and new neighbors are next. Midtown Montessori Academy purchased the 15,449-square-foot building for $3.5 million on May 16.
Andrew Barrilleaux, director of finance for the school, said they were leasing space in the building before the sale.
“We kind of decided that the highest and best use for the chapel itself was for us to expand the school to...
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By Eric Heinz
The landmark decision June 24 by the U.S. Supreme Court that overturned the nearly 50-year-old case Roe v. Wade has had immediate effects on pro-choice advocates and women’s clinics around the nation. State legislators in the spring passed the Reproductive Health Equity Act, sponsored by Sen. Julie Gonzales, D-34, which codified the right for women to receive an abortion procedure or pill. The bill prohibits public entities...
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By Celeste Benzschawel
Construction began in late April at Sloan’s Lake Park’s south playground, picnic facilities, and tennis courts.
Denver Parks and Recreation is implementing a rocket ship-themed playground and is making improvements to parking, landscaping, and accessibility.
The south tennis courts are also being replaced by three new tennis courts and four pickleball courts. The projects, funded by the capital improvement...
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By Celeste Benzschawel
What started out as a small group of friends meeting for coffee to chat about neighborhood history soon turned into a nonprofit capable of saving historic buildings from demolition. That group, officially established in 2016, is Historic Berkeley-Regis (HBR).
“(We) all felt this sadness and eagerness and interest in the histories of these buildings that were being lost,” said Marie Edgar, HBR co-founder and...
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The Denver North Star staff
The Skyline Festival is a free annual community event held in Zuni Park for the people of Chaffee Park and their neighbors. According to organizers, the day-long festival features live music, local art, outdoor games and activities, children’s activities, booths from community organizations and vendors, and local food trucks.
“The goal of the event is to provide the people of the community with a fun and...
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By Ernest Gurulé
There may never be a spring like the one experienced in 2020. Denver and the country got a real-time education on how a pandemic begins. Every news report, every newspaper headline, was about something called COVID-19.
Whatever we needed to do, we needed to do quickly. Drastic times called for drastic measures. Perhaps one of the first of many drastic measures was the shutting down of traditional education for an...
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By Charmaine Lindsay, DPS District 5 board member
Recently, I had the honor of being chosen to represent District 5 as a Board of Education member for Denver Public Schools.
Charmaine Lindsay
To be chosen over the other four very qualified and impressive candidates presents me with a great responsibility to the parents and students of District 5 and all DPS. For me, this outcome started with a phone call, from a longtime friend,...
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By Eric Heinz
Before a corner unit of the Holiday Theater is leased, it will continue to house an exhibit showcasing Northside Denver artists.
The exhibition, titled “Northside Pride,” was installed in April and is expected to last until September, or until the theater’s owners find a tenant, according to members of the Northside Arts Collective, which put on the display at the corner of 32nd Avenue and Clay Street.
From left,...
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