After years of grassroots organizing and significant investment from major foundations, long-held dreams are beginning to take shape in northeast Denver’s Montbello neighborhood, including affordable housing, a business development hub, a grocery store stocked with fresh produce, and eventually a vibrant community arts center.
This Month: Community Steps in to Help Family-Owned Bike Shop; Investigators Looking for Cause of Fire at Bluff Lake Nature Center; New Name and Look for Shops at Northfield; and Denver Library Closure Extended.
MacKenzie Hardt is part of the community, whether it’s flipping pancakes alongside his wife, Abby, at Winter Bike to Work Day; leading a bike bus to a school; or running a Kidical Mass event. The Hardts host 40 free events a year. Now the community is stepping up to help them in return.
This story and more Front Porch updates.
The name and the address are the same. The mid-century building, once a police station, has room after room of spaces for creatives, with rent starting at $2 an hour. Weekly rentals are also available.
This month: A Denver Town Hall Focused on the Future; A Day of Protest in Denver’s Central Park Neighborhood; Discount Grocer Opening Stores in Denver; Changes at The Aurora History Museum; and Bluff Lake Grand Opening.
In mid-November, Holland sent an email to members announcing the closure of Upswell, a business that offers fitness and recovery programs. Twelve hours later, she received what she called a “wave of people,” urging her to figure out how to reopen the doors. She started making calls, asking, “If we could open for a few days [a week], could you come back?”
This month: A ‘Shared Street’ in Central Park; It’s Time to Think About Spring Trees; Aurora Library Doubles in Size; Local Breweries Join Support for The Blue Bench; Redefining the Future of Public Education; A Colorful World; and Openings and Closings.
Step inside Park Hill’s Torpedo Coffee any day of the week, and chances are you’ll see Kat Lent standing behind the counter, brewing espresso and catching up with regulars. In fact, Lent, who was hired to manage the shop just weeks after it opened in 2018, said she’s only taken four days off this year.
The holidays are in full swing at Stanley Marketplace plus more openings and a closing.
A special election in November paved the way for a new Downtown Development Authority (DDA) along East Colfax to help shape the future of that part of Aurora.
Jonathan Guffey sat in the back corner of the Tattered Cover store at Stanley Marketplace reading his new book to a group of excited listeners who waited to raise their hands and ask the author questions. Story time is a semiweekly event at the store, but the storyteller is not usually a 9-year-old author.
