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🌱 Globeville Project Breaks Ground + Big $$ For CO Water + Parklets

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Hello, neighbors! It's me, Brad K. Evans, your host of the Denver Daily. Let's get this day started off right, with a quick review of the most important things going on around town.

  • Denver celebrates a day of parks instead of parked cars.
  • Fox Island in Globeville getting a ton of new residential and commercial units.
  • City of Castle Rock says it won't expand any further southward.

Tuesday's weather: Increasing cloudiness. High: 89 Low: 59.


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Here are the top stories today in Denver:

  1. A bunch of new developments coming soon near RTD station in Globeville. The old Denver Post site has finally broken ground in the area nicknamed "Fox Island." (Business Journal)
  2. Metro Denver now has a hard boundary to the south. Castle Rock announces that it has no plans to expand its boundary to the south any further into Douglas County for development. (Local Today)
  3. Cars parked or parks for people, you decide. Last Friday was national parklet day, and Denver's tactical urbanists set up parks in parking spaces all over the central business district to show passersby how great parks could be instead of parked cars. (Denverite)
  4. Can geothermal electricity make a comeback? Some think so, including Gov. Jared Polis. Western governors are exploring how to expand the potentials of this 'underdeveloped' resource. (CO Newsline)
  5. Boulder County Coroner identifies victims in Saturday's midair crash. Three people were killed when two small airplanes collided midair near Longmont and then crashed. Those killed in the crash were: Henry Butler, 69; Samuel Fisher, 23 and Daniel Wilmoth, 22. (CO Sun)

Today in Denver:

  • Small business open house: How to work with City of Denver. (9 a.m.)
  • Baby Time: Wheat Ridge Library. (10:15 a.m.)
  • Tuesday Afternoon Book Group: "The Boys," by Ron Howard. (12:30 p.m.)
  • Blooming Neighbors: Connect with mature. (3:30 p.m.)

From my notebook:

  • Denver Beer Week is coming soon. Mark your calendars for Sept. 30 - Oct. 8 and enjoy 9 full days of all things beer! There will be more than 100 beer-related events in America's no. 1 beer city. (Visit Denver)

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That's it for today. I'll be back in your inbox tomorrow with your next update! — Brad K. Evans

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