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The city of Denver will receive $10 million in Public Housing Capital Funds for its redevelopment of the South Lincoln Park Homes public-housing project, a grant announced in Denver last week by Shaun Donovan, secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

This week, Colorado Construction launched its first-ever electronic newsletter.

Last week, Aurora Public Schools broke ground on Colorado’s first preschool through college campus at 6th Avenue and Harvest Road in Aurora.

The Architecture for Humanity-Denver chapter will mark its first anniversary on Sept. 4 during the First Friday Santa Fe Art Walk.

This fall Colorado State University will install a 2-mw solar power plant on the university’s Foothills Campus as part of Xcel Energy Solar Rewards program and expects to create enough solar power to meet more than 10% of the university’s energy needs.

NREL’s Research Support Facility project team reclaims gas pipes for support structure

The Regional Transportation District has assigned North Metro Engineering Project Manager Jim Starling to take over as West Corridor project manager following the recent death of the project’s previous manager, Dennis Cole.

Colorado's economy will continue to shed jobs in the third quarter of 2009 before leveling off toward the end of the year, according to Richard Wobbekind, an economist with the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business.

The West Corridor project is the first leg of RTD’s FasTracks program. It will create a rail corridor between downtown Denver and the Jefferson County Government Center in Golden.

Engineering firm expected to strengthen HDR’s federal presence