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Apartment vacancies drop in metro Denver, but market still favors renters

Metro Denver apartment vacancy rates moved lower and rents rose slightly in the second quarter, but conditions still remain favorable to renters, according to the Vacancy & Rent Report from the Apartment Association of Metro Denver.

The Vincent J. Boryla Apartments at 4923 King St. in Denver are seen on Thursday, May 1, 2025. (Justin Wingerter/BusinessDen)

Cars and pedestrians traverse downtown Telluride during the 43rd Telluride Mushroom Festival held in Telluride Colo., Sunday, August 20, 2023. The town recently added 14 new diagonal spots on the west end of Colorado Avenue as part of a controversial pilot program to add car capacity. (Photo by William Woody/Special to The Denver Post)

New parking spots are raising tensions in glitzy mountain town of Telluride

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This lot in Denver’s RiNo neighborhood where a grocery store was once planned is now under contract to be sold to Dallas-based Trammell Crow Residential. (Hayden Kim/BusinessDen)

Housing complex proposed for vacant lot in Denver’s River North Art District

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The State Capitol is framed by buildings along Sherman Street Friday, June 27, 2025, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Coloradans say politics is state’s top problem — and they feel powerless to do anything about it

By Meg Wingerter

July 15, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

Last year, respondents listed the cost of living as the biggest challenge, followed by the...

Last minute cleaning and detail work is finished by workmen in Schlessman Hall in the newly renovated Denver Central Library in Denver on Oct. 29, 2024. Denver’s Central Library will fully reopen to the public on November 3rd for the first time since it closed for renovations during the pandemic. The over four-year renovations, which cost over $60 million, put Denver’s votes to work. In November 2017, Denver voters overwhelmingly approved measure 2E, which provided $69.3 million to renovate the Denver Central Library and 10 branch libraries as part of the Elevate Denver Bond program. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Denver spent $60 million on its library — and still closes every Friday (Opinion)

By William Porter

July 11, 2025 at 5:01 a.m.

Denver just poured $60 million into a gleaming makeover of its Central Library. But eight...

Fans walk up the ramps past the downtown Denver skyline prior to the start of the game at Empower Field at Mile High in Denver on Sunday, Dec. 15, 2024. The Denver Broncos took on the Indianapolis Colts. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)

Colorado’s economy may be slowing, but it’s not a time to panic (Opinion)

By Joe Nimmons

July 9, 2025 at 9:51 a.m.

Colorado’s economy may not be sprinting anymore. But it’s still moving, still breathing, still building...

Jeanie Chase sits with her dog Daisy inside her home in the Avondale Apartments in Denver on June 19, 2025. Chase lives on the fifth floor and has limited mobility due to chronic health problems, and, as a result, she cannot walk up or down the stairs in her building when the elevator isn't working. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

How Denver allows faulty or inoperable elevators to keep trapping people

By Sam Tabachnik

July 6, 2025 at 6:00 a.m.

Elevators across Denver are trapping people inside or are otherwise inoperable, and conveyance regulators aren't...

Barbed-wire fences surround the Arapahoe County Detention Center on November 12, 2023, in Centennial, Colorado. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)

Mental Health Colorado shuts down Arapahoe County jail program after funding runs out

By Meg Wingerter

July 3, 2025 at 4:24 p.m.

Vincent Atchity, Mental Health Colorado's president and CEO, said the Safer program succeeded: only three...

Single-family homes line a neighborhood street in Littleton on April 10, 2025. Home sales in June are down nearly 10% from May and the inventory of unsold listings topped 14,000, according to the Denver Metro Association of Realtors. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)

Recalibration underway: Unsold homes in metro Denver top 14,000 in June

By Aldo Svaldi

July 7, 2025 at 4:55 p.m.

This marks the most sluggish resale market the region has seen since 2011.

JLL Capital Markets announced that it has secured a $65.5 million construction financing for 3850 Blake, a 310-unit, Class-A multifamily development in Denver's River North Art District (RiNo). JLL represented the borrower, Formativ. (Rendering provided by JLL)

Construction begins on 310-unit multifamily development in Denver’s River North Art District

By Jessica Alvarado Gamez

July 2, 2025 at 1:21 p.m.

3850 Blake is expected to be completed in the third quarter of 2027.

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