Colorado Independent

DPS enrollment projected to drop — and other takeaways from new regional analysis

“After growing for nearly two decades, the student population in Denver Public Schools is forecast to drop almost 2 percent by 2021, according to a new analysis released by the district. The main reasons, the analysis concludes, are lower post-recession birth rates and rising housing prices, which are pushing lower-income families out of the city. … [Read more…]

Fire burns Catholic Workers out of Five Points. Development booms

  “The fire that coursed up the stairs of the Catholic Worker House last week, pushing 12 people into the streets, did far less visible damage to the Five Points Neighborhood than the bloated development under construction next door. The looming Wheatley — an 82 apartment, 14 townhouse, five-story new-Denver mixed-use modernist monstrosity being built … [Read more…]