Sixteen years after opening a senior living center in Louisville, Balfour Senior Living is planning to develop a 50,000-square-foot community on a two-acre site across the street from the existing facility.
The center, with 65 assisted living apartments, at 1800 Plaza Drive, will serve about 70 residents. Construction will begin in the second quarter of 2016, officials said on Tuesday. The opening is scheduled for the third quarter of 2017. About 300 seniors already living on Balfour’s main Louisville campus. The new center will include a small memory care component, The project will be across the street from Balfour Retirement Community. The first center opened in 1999 and provides assisted living and skilled nursing residences. “Balfour is committed to building and operating the best senior living communities in Colorado and this new development will incorporate all we have learned from our nearly 20 years of developing and operating senior housing,” said Michael K. Schonbrun, founder and CEO of Balfour Senior Living. Balfour Senior Living is based in Boulder County. DTJ Design, based in Boulder, has been selected as the architect. Amenities in the new facility will include a fitness center, salon, farm-to-table dining, chauffeured transportation and themed common areas for educational and event programming. Meanwhile, Balfour at Riverfront Park, a senior living community in the downtown Denver, has recently received two national awards. Click here to read more Denver-area home prices rose by a record 10.9 percent in September, according to the closely watched Case-Shiller report released today.
The new high water mark for Denver, which eclipsed the earlier record of 10.7 percent year-over-year gain inAugust, placed Denver in second place of the 20 major metropolitan statistical areas tracked by the S&P/Case-Shiller Price Indices. Only San Francisco, with an 11.2 percent year-over-year gain, showed a bigger increase than Denver. “Another strong month with double-digit appreciation!” exclaimed Lane Hornung, CEO of 8z Real Estate. “Those gains in equity should help put some pretty plump turkeys on Front Range tables this Thanksgiving.” Hornung said. Home outpace inflation “And let’s keep in mind that this appreciation is occurring in a low inflationary environment, so homeowners feel these real gains in their pocketbooks,” Hornung continued. “In fact, homes in the Denver metro are increasing in value at more than three times the rate of inflation. That’s pretty unprecedented,” Hornung said. “Of course, as prices rise, affordability may become a factor,” Hornung continued. “Interest rates remain low for now and more importantly, we have robust job growth. “Unemployment in Denver is approaching 3 percent, the lowest it’s been in seven years. “Denver is hot and attracting millennials seeking jobs and a quality lifestyle,” Hornung said. Denver a coastal city without a coast “We’re America’s new coastal city (just don’t tell anyone there’s no ocean).” September marked the 43rd consecutive month that prices have risen in Denver, according to Case-Shiller. Click here to read more James T. Wanzeck, broker-owner of RE/MAX Masters Millennium, will serve as chairman of the REcolorado board for 2016, the state’s largest Multiple Listing Service announced on Monday.
“I am honored to serve alongside so many talented Realtors,” Wanzeck said. “We anticipate another year of growth and innovation as we provide REcolorado strategic guidance and support their efforts to compete with major real estate aggregators while promoting the value of using a Realtor,” Wanzeck added. Jan Reinhardt, of RE/MAX Alliance, will serve as Vice Chair of REcolorado’s board. The board makes policy decisions, authorizes rule making, and oversees strategic planning for REcolorado. REcolorado board members not only represent REcolorado, but also their respective Realtor associations. Next year’s REcolorado board members and their respective associations, include: Aurora Association of Realtors
Click here to read more With joy far bigger than the disease relentlessly attacking her tiny body, a Denver nun crafted her bucket list. Just one time, she wanted to ride in a helicopter. But, most of all, Sister Monique Vredeveld dreamed of leading the Broncos in prayer.
Little miracles happen. The nun's fondest football wish was granted. But fewer than 36 hours after the Broncos generously invited her to meet the team at practice, Sister Mo had to take another call. Heaven was on Line 1 and could not wait. Before Vredeveld got the chance to bless receiver Demaryius Thomas, quarterback Peyton Manning and the gridiron heroes who made this feisty 88-year-old nun cheer with every ounce in her 85-pound frame on an NFL Sunday, she succumbed to Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and died in her sleep during the early morning hours of Oct. 30. While rehearsing plans for the team prayer during her final night on Earth, however, the dying Denver nun revealed one last request: "Kill the Patriots!" Oh, Lord. Please forgive Sister Mo for her indelicate plea to the Broncos. Football made her do it. Yes, even this nun could get a wee bit carried away when rooting for Denver to crush every foe, especially mighty New England, which has made a nasty habit of standing in the middle of the road to the Super Bowl. And what Broncomaniac has any difficulty understanding that over-the-top passion, which so obviously burned within Vredeveld? Not to suggest the good nun was obsessed with the Broncos, but as longtime friend Mark Gallegos gladly confessed: "We cremated Sister Monique in a blue blazer, dark pants and a signed jersey from Demaryius Thomas." Click here to read more It was 390 days ago when Rob Gronkowski sealed what many believe was the beginning of the Broncos' end to their 2014 season. On a first-and-10 off a slant route in the fourth quarter, in the Patriots' final stages of their 43-21blowout of the Broncos — in Foxborough, of course — Gronkowski stretched his 6-foot-6, 265-pound frame to evade the coverage of safety T.J. Ward and grab a bullet pass fromTom Brady with one hand, landing one yard shy of Denver's end zone. Another pass from Brady put him over the goal line for the final dagger.
The Patriots didn't need that highlight catch. The Broncos didn't need to see the oversized tight end tally another victory against Denver. And they certainly didn't need a reminder of their 2013 Super Bowl debacle against the Seahawks. But Gronkowski and the Patriots provided it all Nov. 2, 2014, in meeting that Ward said after was "our worst game." The Broncos — now with the league's leading defense in yards allowed (284.3) and second-leading in points allowed (18.3)— hope to not see it again Sunday, when Gronkowski and the 10-0 Patriots roll into Denver. They have a plan, they say, but they don't claim to have found any definite answer on how to stop the three-time Pro Bowl tight end. "Uh ... triple-team," said cornerback Aqib Talib, who spent 2012-13 as Gronkowski's teammate in New England before signing with Denver. "It's his size and that speed. And that quarterback." Since 2010, when he entered the league, Gronkowski has recorded 523 receiving yards and 46 touchdowns in the red zone in the regular season, both league-highs in the NFL. Click here to read more Colin Brough, the 20-year-old college student from Castle Rock, had a high blood-alcohol level and had recently used marijuana last month when he was shot and killed by a fellow Northern Arizona University student, according to a medical examiner's report released Wednesday.
Lawyers for Steven Jones, the 18-year-old from Glendale, Ariz., who is charged with first-degree murder in Brough's death, said he acted in self-defense. Jones told police he was walking past the Delta Chi fraternity house when someone hit him in the face and he was chased as he ran to his car. Three other students were wounded after Jones retrieved a gun from his car on the Flagstaff campus at about 1:20 a.m. on Oct. 9. The Coconino County Medical Examiner's Office report said Brough was shot twice, once in the chest and once in the shoulder, and indications were that he was facing the gunman. His blood-alcohol level was 0.285 percent, more than three times the legal limit to drive, 0.08 percent. There was also evidence of marijuana use in his bloodstream. Brough graduated from Castle View High School in Castle Rock in 2013. Click here to read more U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman of Aurora gave thanks to American military Thursday by spending the holiday with deployed troops in Afghanistan.
"We are most thankful for their service and for their sacrifices," Coffman said. "I also want to extend a special holiday greeting and thanks to their families who had to celebrate this holiday without them." Coffman is a Marine combat veteran with 21 years of military experience and is the only member of Congress to have served in both Iraq wars. He was part of a bipartisan U.S. delegation that went on the unannounced trip to Afghanistan during the congressional recess to meet with troops, as well as American and Afghan military and government leaders. Coffman's office said the delegation is assessing security in the region. The United States currently has about 9,800 troops deployed to Afghanistan. President Obama said last month that he would keep thousands of American soldiers there through the end of his term next year because of the threat of militants from the Islamic State. Coffman — a Republican in his third term in the House, after serving as Colorado's state treasurer, secretary of state and as a state senator and state representative — serves on the House Armed Services Committee. He also is on the House Veteran's Affairs Committee, chairing the subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Authorities say a man faces charges in Louisiana accusing him of killing his father and stabbing his mother because they ordered fast food and didn't get any for him.
Ronald Pritchett, 32, of Purvis, Mississippi, faces charges of second-degree murder, attempted second-degree murder and auto theft in the New Orleans suburb of Jefferson Parish, said Col. John Fortunato, spokesman for the sheriff there. Fortunato Percival Pritchett, 58, and his wife, Renitta Pritchett, 57, were stabbed Wednesday at their home in unincorporated Gretna. Renitta Pritchett was treated and released, University Medical Center spokeswoman Aleis Tusa said. Fortunato said in a news release that Pritchett became enraged about food. Asked by email for more details, he replied, "They ordered food from a fast food restaurant and didn't include him." Pritchett was arrested Thursday at a relative's home near the town of Purvis, Mississippi, and waived extradition to Louisiana, Lamar County Sheriff Danny Rigel said. He said deputies checked several relatives' homes before locating Percival Pritchett's tan Chevrolet Suburban at a house where detectives were told Ronald Pritchett was in a "mother-in-law" outbuilding. After evacuating the house, he said, the tactical team and K-9 units surrounded the smaller building. LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian officials say they have arrested two women on human trafficking charges: one for selling her baby for $250, the other for buying it after placing a "want ad" on Facebook.
The top child-protection official in the eastern city of Santa Cruz tells The Associated Press that the buyer was an 18-year-old who presented the 6-week-old girl to a young man who had jilted her, telling him the child was theirs. The official, Rosy Valencia, says the man called police. Police presented as evidence on Thursday the Facebook page, no longer active, of the alleged buyer in which the solicitation was made. Officials say the seller was a 32-year-old sex worker who didn't know the identity of the child's father and sought to recover the cost of the child's birth. Attorneys have filed a notice of appeal for a man convicted of stabbing five people to death in a Denver bar. In August, a Denver jury convicted Dexter Lewis of killing five people inside Fero's Bar & Grill. Lewis, now 25, was convicted of 16 charges including 10 counts of first-degree murder — two for each of the victims. But the same jury that unanimously found Lewis guilty of the murders was unable to agree on whether he should receive the death penalty. On Aug. 27, during the second stage of a three-part sentencing hearing, at least one of the jurors found that the details of Lewis' life that suggested mercy — including chronic abuse and neglect as a child — outweighed the heinous details of the crimethat suggested death. Lewis was eventually given five consecutive sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole and an additional 180 years. Click here to read more CODY LATIMER OF BRONCOS INSPIRES CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL PATIENT, PAYS TRIBUTE WITH TD CELEBRATION11/28/2015 Broncos coach Gary Kubiak foreshadowed the moment less than a week before it happened. After a season and a half, Cody Latimer's time was near, he told reporters.
What Kubiak failed to mention, however, was just how big the moment would be — not just for him or his team. With 11:42 remaining in the fourth quarter of the Broncos' 17-15 victory at Chicago on Sunday, Latimer caught a 10-yard pass from Brock Osweiler for his first career touchdown. He quickly stood up, folded his arms and posed for fans at Soldier Field as his teammates piled on top of him in celebration. More than 1,000 miles away, in a room at Children's Hospital in Aurora that housed 8-year-old Carson Cline, a similar celebration was taking place. To Carson, a cerebral palsy patient, that touchdown and that celebratory pose were worth more than the scoreboard could reflect. Long before he was a football player, Latimer faced, perhaps, the most trying time in his life. In April 2005, when he was 12, he lost his father to cancer. Colby Latimer, a former linebacker at Bowling Green State, was 38. After going pro in 2014, Cody launched his personal website where he sells custom T-shirts and donates all proceeds to the American Cancer Society. He also spends some of his off-days at Children's Hospital, visiting young patients on the oncology ward. That's where he requested to be five days before the Broncos' took on the Bears. "I have a son on the way and just seeing kids in there and how strong they are — it was something I wanted to be around," Latimer said. But the Broncos asked Latimer to make a special stop in another wing of the hospital that day. On Nov. 6, Carson was admitted to Children's Hospital and expected to stay six weeks after selective dorsal rhizotomy, a neurospinal surgery that requires cutting sensory nerves in Carson's spine. The procedure will help him walk flat-footed, ultimately giving him greater mobility. But first he must endure weeks of rehabilitation to re-learn putting one foot in front of the other. Click here to read more |
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