Denver Post: Business

Colorado-based property developers Thrive Development Co. submitted plans early this month to the city to convert two existing buildings into a food hall and coworking concept.

New apartments and retail may be coming to RiNo.
Denver-based Steele Properties submitted plans to the city last month calling for the development of a 60,000-square-foot, 40-unit income-restricted apartment building where Downing and Walnut Streets meet.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Flanked by dozens of union members, a group of Colorado Democrats unveiled legislation Tuesday to remove a unique barrier to union organizing in the state.
The proposal, which will not be introduced until the legislative session starts in early January, would repeal an 81-year-old requirement that unions in Colorado pass a second election before they can begin negotiating union dues and fees.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

At this time of year, delivery companies are normally in full hiring mode. United Parcel Service, however, has informed the state that it plans to dismiss 404 workers at its Commerce City package processing facility while it adds more automation equipment to the location.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Andrew Schuman thinks it’s a pretty sweet deal.
The owner of Hammond’s Candies, an Adams County manufacturer offering free tours that’s been around for a century, sold it this week to the locally based retail chain Lolli & Pops.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

There are now artificial intelligence programs that scan MRIs for signs of cancer, Apple AirPods that work as hearing aids and devices that decode the electrical blips of the brain to restore speech to those who have lost it.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By Tim Henderson, Stateline.org (TNS)
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, McLean County, Illinois, was known mostly as the home of State Farm Insurance in Bloomington and Illinois State University in Normal.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

DirecTV’s purchase of EchoStar’s subscription television business could collapse unless bondholders agree to accept a discount within the next week. But even if they don’t, EchoStar reassured investors it has raised enough capital to meet upcoming debt payments, allowing it to avoid a bankruptcy filing.

By MATTHEW PERRONE, Associated Press Health Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Those ever-present TV drug ads showing patients hiking, biking or enjoying a day at the beach could soon have a different look: New rules require drugmakers to be clearer and more direct when explaining their medications’ risks and side effects.

In an unexpected turn, Green Dragon, one of the largest dispensary chains in Colorado, will keep its stores and grow facility open.
The retailer’s parent company, California-based Eaze, got an infusion of $10 million from its owner, Jim Clark, to remain operating, it announced Tuesday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share