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Sandwiches served at Mendocino Farms (Provided by Mendocino Farms via BusinessDen) Mendocino Farms is planting its first Colorado location in Cherry Creek’s newest office building. The El Segundo, California-based restaurant chain signed a lease for the remaining 3,000 retail square feet at 320 N. Fillmore St., the company confirmed to BusinessDen. “We look forward to bringing our fresh, flavorful, chef-driven sandwiches, salads and more to the residents and visitors of this fantastic neighborhood,” Mendocino CEO Kevin Miles said in a statement. There is no opening date for the restaurant yet, a company spokeswoman said. The chain’s menu consists primarily of soups, salads and sandwiches, ranging from a classic club sandwich to more unique offerings such as pork belly banh mi and a Peruvian steak sandwich. The restaurant, founded in 2005 by husband-and-wife duo Mario Del Pero and Ellen Chen, has primarily been concentrated in California, with dozens of locations from Sacramento to San Diego.

‘We are in an intelligence arms race for hearts, minds, and power,’ Meeker writes in a new report. Influential tech investor Mary Meeker published a new report Monday calling for the tech industry, government, and higher education to all work together to advance artificial intelligence during what she sees as an inflection point “of epic proportions.”

State testing efforts are inconsistent, while testing of people exposed to sick cattle is scant, government health officials and pandemic flu experts told Reuters. Scientists tracking the spread of bird flu are increasingly concerned that gaps in surveillance may keep them several steps behind a new pandemic, according to Reuters interviews with more than a dozen leading disease experts.

While the justices didn’t rule on the merits of the cases, they agreed that government efforts to control online speech represent a danger to free expression. In a unanimous opinion Monday, the Supreme Court declined to rule on the constitutionality of laws in Florida and Texas that would require online platforms to publish political speech they would otherwise remove.

The one-time Tom’s Diner building is taking a new form once again. Champagne Tiger, a soon-to-be French-American diner, has leased the building at 601 E. Colfax Ave. in Denver that was home for two decades to Tom’s Diner and then, briefly, Tom’s Starlight. Owner Chris Donato said he’s targeting a September opening for his restaurant that will feature specialty pasta and piano nights, as well as drag brunches on Sundays “I’ve always been looking for a diner space.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Boeing announced plans to acquire key supplier Spirit AeroSystems for $4.7 billion, a move that it says will improve plane quality and safety amid increasing scrutiny by Congress, airlines and the Department of Justice. Boeing previously owned Spirit, and the purchase would reverse a longtime Boeing strategy of outsourcing key work on its passenger planes.