Pins matching place:Denver

Henry Zietz opened the Buckhorn Exchange on 17 November 1893 across from the rail yards, and it holds Colorado liquor licence number one. The walls carry several hundred mounted animals and the menu still runs to elk, buffalo and rattlesnake.

Chef Theo Adley opens a Basque-leaning bistro in Denver's Five Points, sister to Marigold in Lyons, Colorado, with a rotisserie and a counter by a roll-up door.

Johnny Curiel opens a small corn-centred Mexican tasting-menu restaurant in Denver, his sixth opening in three years; the menu runs to 18 courses.

Waymo began welcoming its first public riders in Denver on 1 September 2026, with a roughly 60-square-mile service area served only by its Zeekr-built Ojai robotaxi.

Routes 15 and 15L move into new center-running bus-only lanes on East Colfax Avenue between Broadway and Colorado Boulevard, with passengers boarding at new island stations sheltered by steel arches. It is the first stretch of RTD's 8.5-mile bus rapid transit corridor from downtown Denver to I-225 in Aurora to carry buses, with full BRT service planned for late 2027 or early 2028.

The Betty Knoebel Arena, given a ceremonial groundbreaking in September 2026, is the centrepiece of a new Equestrian Center on the National Western Center campus in north Denver, paid for by the Knoebel family and the Knoebel Foundation. Plans put a 4,000-seat arena alongside a climate-controlled horse barn with close to 600 stalls.

Denver International Airport's long-running Great Hall renovation, meant to modernise its original 1995 terminal and add new security checkpoints, is now scheduled to finish by the end of 2027.

Burnham Yard, a former rail yard less than a mile southeast of Empower Field at Mile High, is the Broncos' preferred site for a privately funded retractable-roof stadium anchoring a mixed-use district of parks, housing, shops and restaurants. The Walton-Penner ownership group is paying for the stadium itself, with Denver and Colorado covering surrounding public improvements.