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Denver’s Chinatown took a violent hit on Oct. 31, 1880, after a wave of racist rioting and fires washed over the neighborhood, inside what’s now Lower Downtown. But there still may be a future for it. “There are ideas for an art history project, for reactivating the alleyway, for designing new spaces and concepts,” said Leyuan Li, assistant professor of architecture at the University of Colorado Denver, as he surveyed models of redesigned buildings inside a History Colorado Center exhibit last week. Unlike New York City, San Francisco or even Portland, Ore., Denver’s biggest modern concentration of Asian businesses is not downtown, but rather around Federal Boulevard, led by the historic, pan-Asian Far East Center. Denver’s former Chinatown — along Wazee and Market streets, between 15th and 20th streets — was a flashpoint for many white residents and journalists who fed anti-Chinese sentiment by falsely stereotyping the area as a red-light district, according to History Colorado research.

Work management platform monday.com opened its second Denver office in the LoDo neighborhood on Thursday to accommodate the company’s growth in the region. On the third floor of the 1755 Blake Street office building, the new 26,000-square-foot office is more than twice the size of the company’s other location on Market Street, which sits at 10,000 square feet. “Since opening the doors to our first Denver office two years ago, our team has grown by 79%, exceeding expectations.

Denver International Airport and the Transportation Security Administration are bracing for a busy Thanksgiving holiday travel season this year. From Friday, Nov. 22 to Monday, Dec. 2, TSA in a news release said it expects to screen more than 844,033 passengers through DIA checkpoints, a 7.5% increase from 2023. The three busiest days at the Denver airport during the Thanksgiving travel period are projected to be Friday, Nov.

Colorado Lottery players now can buy tickets without leaving the house. Jackpot.com has launched in Colorado, allowing players to order and play official state lottery tickets and scratchers from their mobile phones and other devices. The website will allow players in Colorado to instantly buy tickets for nationwide games such as Mega Millions and Powerball, as well as Colorado lottery games. The platform purchases tickets on behalf of its customers from an official state lottery retailer, displaying a scan of their ticket and transferring winnings under $600 in real-time to their account.

The Colorado Economic Development Commission played defense on Thursday, approving tax incentives to keep some local companies in place. But it went on offense as well, trying to lure the U. S. arm of a New Zealand-based sports governing authority to Colorado Springs. Project Kiwi, the codename given to an unnamed New Zealand nonprofit, oversees a major Olympic sport in the U.

Denver is saying goodbye to the Five Points Jazz Festival, with a plan to replace the 20-year-old event with a year-round grant program meant to uplift the local jazz scene. Denver Arts & Venues, a city and county agency, made the announcement Thursday about the creation of the Five Points Jazz Activation Fund — and the simultaneous demise of the free one-day event in the Five Points neighborhood. The first Five Points Jazz Festival took place  more than two decades ago in an area historically known as the Harlem of the West.