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Gary Peterson, a Vail Resorts Inc. (NYSE: MTN) shareholder, sued the Broomfield-based ski-area operator and nine members of its board of directors this week, alleging that Vail leaders violated securities laws and breached their fiduciary duty.

As a result of a 4-4 Boulder City Council vote, a proposal to create a downtown development authority to help reinvigorate the Pearl Street Mall and University Hill districts will not be sent to area voters in November.

Is there a light at the tunnel for the region’s real estate doldrums? Perhaps, participants in BizWest’s Boulder Valley CEO Roundtable said Tuesday. But what if that light doesn’t represent a means of escape, but a train barreling straight towards us?

About five months after financial struggles forced the YMCA of Northern Colorado to end aquatics, fitness and recreation services at its Longmont location, the City of Longmont is planning to buy the 950 Lashley St. facility and turn it into a public recreation center.

A process that could eventually result in the creation of a downtown development authority in Boulder is proceeding apace through planning (by city staff) and early vetting (by Boulder officials) stages, but some skepticism over a DDA’s viability remains among Boulder City Council members.

Older Americans have been getting into cannabis in record numbers in recent years.

The development team led by City Street Investors’ Joe Vostrejs and Outpost Partners’ Tim Fredregill is requesting an 18-month extension for its building permits. This request was the formal reason for this week’s Broomfield City Council study session, but the occasionally testy hearing felt at times like an airing of grievances and at others like a cross-examination.

A recent confidence survey of Colorado business leaders paints a gloomy economic picture for the second quarter of 2026.

Hudson is wrestling with the possible reopening of its long-dormant Correctional Facility, which could be used as an immigration detention center under contract with ICE.

Two large hospitals could be built within a stone’s throw from one another along a stretch of Baseline Road in Broomfield that’s already dense with health care facilities.