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Plans for a small Cherry Creek condominium building have been nixed, and half the development site has a new owner.
Frank Penn and Dave Bracht, two longtime friends, planned to build a four-story project across two parcels at 325 and 329 Detroit St., which combined are just over a quarter acre.
The pair got the site rezoned in September 2023, and refined their design earlier this year, adding some office and retail space, and saying groundbreaking could be a year away.

Littleton residents will soon be able to shop where offices once stood.
Last week, local retail investor and developer Republic Investment Group closed on a 63-acre site at 700 W. Mineral Ave. for $50 million, records show. Demolition of the existing 680,000-square-foot office building there began Wednesday, RIG owner Grant Nelson said.
The building was once home to Louisiana-based telecommunications firm Lumen, which changed its name from CenturyLink in 2020.

In a cavernous warehouse north of New York City, a 16-foot robot outfitted with a cutting tool etched intricate grooves into a faceless marble head atop an alien-like torso.
Water sprayed into the air as an image created with artificial intelligence entered the physical world.
In February, during a three-month stint as OpenAI’s first artist in residence, Alexander Reben gained early access to the startup’s Sora text-to-video tool, which instantly generates videos up to a minute in length from written or spoken prompts.

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Evan Williams did not want to start another startup. He had already enjoyed the kind of rare, unfathomable success most entrepreneurs only dream of, starting tech companies that made products used by millions — the early blogging site Blogger, the social media giant Twitter, the publishing platform Medium.

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