Tag: Denver

Denver Takes Initiative on Sidewalks

Like a lot of US cities, Denver has a dearth of decent sidewalks. According to an analysis last year, the city is missing 300 miles of pedestrian pathways; of the 2,300 miles that do exist, around 30% are too narrow and an unknown proportion are in disrepair, making them treacherous to negotiate.

Sidewalks are the unsung but essential infrastructure of millions of mundane daily journeys. But they tend to be chronically neglected — especially in neighborhoods whose residents rely on them most.

Denver is seeking to change that. Last month, the Mile High City began to fully fund and maintain its entire sidewalk network, taking over from private citizens. Most property owners will pay a $150 fee for sidewalks per year; a small minority with more than 230 linear square feet facing the street will pay $3.50 per additional square foot. The goal is to build and improve more than 1,000 miles of pavement within a decade. “It’s the largest city in the country that’s made this move,” said Michael Pollack, a professor at Cardozo School of Law in New York City who is writing a book about sidewalks. “It’s a really important step — one that I’d like to see more municipalities adopt.”

Who Should Pay to Fix the Sidewalk?
Denver has made sidewalk upkeep a public responsibility, becoming the largest US municipality to fund and maintain this critical but unsung pedestrian infrastructure.
By David Zipper

King Soopers Strike

Some 10,000 grocery store workers across the greater Denver area went on strike Thursday, claiming unfair and illegal negotiating practices by King Soopers while their union has been negotiating a new contract with the store chain.

Striking workers at 77 King Soopers stores in Denver and its suburbs, plus those in nearby Boulder and Louisville, Colorado, urged customers not to cross picket lines that began taking shape before dawn.

“Stand together. Stay strong,” United Food and Commercial Workers International Union Local 7 President Kim Cordova wrote union members in a Monday letter announcing the strike.

UFCW Local 7 members voted by 96% last week to authorize the unfair labor practices strike.

Thousands of Denver-area King Soopers grocery store workers go on strike

King Soopers in Denver – Which is the Most *Boujee*

Most Boujee King Soopers???
Ok, the difference between the Soopers on Mississippi and Havana and the Soopers on Yosemite and Bellview are worlds apart…

Mississippi and Havana being the red headed step child of the King Soopers empire.

In your opinion which Soopers location is the most boujee?

Bougie is a slang word that you hear in everyday conversations and in the media. noun: Someone who’s considered middle class yet wants to be upper class and is determined to live a wealthier, flashier, more lavish lifestyle (designer labels) Adjective: high-class, fancy, materialistic, snobby. – Google

Limited_turkey
The Hampden and University store is a world away from my store.

hettuklaeddi
Orchard and Holly is bougier

Optimal-Can4635
Live in DTC but I drive the extra distance specifically for that store. Just me and the rich boomers

Koomerthedawg
This is the answer. Spouses used to work they, they are the Soops poster child for the area. Corporate loved showing that store off.

iamgt4me
This is the answer. Doesn’t feel like you’re in America. It’s so peaceful and relaxing in that store.

muchmaligned
I’m in Federal Heights and most of the Soops near me are shitholes with rent-a-cops doing SWAT team cosplay. The Erie one is like 20 minutes north and it’s practically a Whole Foods.

queenrose
The one on 84th & Pecos barely even qualifies as a grocery store. Worst King Soopers I’ve ever visited

muchmaligned
I live across the street from that one and I only go if I need, like, one thing I don’t want to drive ten minutes for haha. Feels like a militarized zone.

bediger4000
Scary Soopers at 13th and Speer is the dodgiest King Soopers.

jonmorrie
I lived in the condos above it for a few years. Can confirm

SadRobotz
Hampden and University is pretty swanky

Gunnerx1337
What about the boujiest Safeway?

Dubayess
Oxymoron