Posts Tagged ‘housing’
Profile: Tales of In-commuters
The 52,850 people who commute into Boulder every day could fill the equivalent of almost five Coors Events Centers. Reference to these commuters is often made in Boulder's discussions about such issues as housing, transportation, jobs, parking, [...]
Mr. Money Mustache | The True Cost of Commuting
The idea of living close to work still seems to be completely alien to most people I’ve met. While I would personally consider it far more important than even the salary or the work performed, most people put commute distance below house price, [...]
Rest and Respite
Editor's note: This article first appeared in the Denver Voice and is posted with permission of its editor. -- Mary Young. When we're sick, a warm bed, steaming soup and some medicine puts us back on our feet, usually within a few days. But what [...]
Housing Goes East
A handful of new housing projects in east Boulder, some just being completed and some only in the concept stage, promise to shift the city’s population center eastward and could significantly change the character of their surroundings. In [...]
On the Drawing Board
The pace of development of just about any kind of real estate slowed appreciably with the advent of the Great Recession, even in Boulder where economic conditions were not as badly affected. However, the reticence of lenders to put money back into [...]
RTD Selects Developer for Boulder Site
The Regional Transportation District chose two firms to develop the first transit-oriented project in Boulder’s Transit Village. Pedersen Development Company and Adolfson & Peterson Construction Company filed with the City of Boulder a concept [...]
CU Seeks Comment on Master Plan
CU-Boulder's Campus Master Plan, released this week, could bring dramatic changes to some of the more far-flung parts of the campus. But the plan calls for only incremental changes to the core campus area. The master plan generally addresses [...]
Adding It Up
The United States Constitution requires the federal government to conduct a census of population every ten years. The census was originally intended to determine representation in the U. S. House of Representatives but the data derived has been [...]
NYTimes.com | Housing Crash Is Hitting Cities Thought to Be Stable
The rolling real estate crash that ravaged Florida and the Southwest is delivering a new wave of distress to communities once thought to be immune — economically diversified cities where the boom was relatively restrained. In the last year, [...]
Boulder Residential Construction Bounces Back … Sort of
The Great Recession of 2008 to 2010 may now be over, at least according to the measurements used by economists. Boulder’s economy was affected but not as badly as that in many other locales. The unemployment rate remained well below the state and [...]
