Menalto Development and the RiNo neighborhood making news
RiNo luxury apartment building sells for $103.3M
11/30/2020 Denver Busines Journal
RiNo landowner’s forecast calls for 50 percent chance of huge water wheel
"The proposal is to build a 50-foot wheel that would spin with the river’s flow. Its backers say it could provide renewable power to the RiNo Promenade, a mile-long park set for construction along the banks of the river. A separate, floating component would be anchored in the river to collect trash and prevent debris from entering the wheel."
8/16/18 Denverite
Hot ‘hoods in the US: 10 neighborhoods you need to visit
"Even as the Mile High City expands, RiNo still clings to its punk-rock roots. You’ll find it in the street murals that seem to pop up overnight, in the experimental galleries that play open house on Friday nights, and in the innovative food halls and rockabilly microbrews that play host to the city’s young, bold and tattooed."
10/5/17 Lonely Planet
The Zeppelins are finally building a pedestrian bridge to connect their huge development to the rest of RiNo
"The finished bridge will stretch about 310 feet, starting at Taxi and landing near the current intersection of 35th Street and Arkins Court. Eventually, that will be the corner of RiNo Park, also scheduled for construction in 2018, and the proposed mile-long RiNo Promenade."
8/21/17 Denverite
Mile-long RiNo river promenade suddenly more likely again with $5 million from the bonds plan
"The plan to create a mile-long stretch of parkland along the South Platte River in RiNo is looking a lot more feasible this week. Mayor Michael Hancock has included the “River North Promenade” in the final list of projects that will be funded if voters approve a $937 million spending package."
7/13/17 Denverite
RiNo’s Ironton art space shifting from gallery to distillery
"Ironton Distillery & Crafthouse plans to open in the River North warehouse during the fall, co-owner Kallyn Peterson told Denverite on Wednesday. Peterson and her partner Robbie Adams “envision a creative space that combines both art studios and their distillery and taproom.”
3/1/2017 Denverite
Denver Rock Drill -Inspiring and innovative new space for office and retail being built in the RiNo and Cole neighborhoods
Denver’s ready to show off its plan for Globeville Landing
"Part of the plan is to replace Globeville Landing’s deep concrete channel with an open, natural drainage. The city plans to revamp the rest of the park along with all that construction."
6/21/16 Denverite
Photos:1st RiNo Music Festival
8/29/2016 9 News Denver
Formerly incarcerated Denver man turned developer plans to revitalize RiNo community
04/16/2022 Denver 7
Announcing the 2016 Mayor's Design Award Winners!
11/10/2016 Colorado homes
RiNo 2020/21 Annual Report Video
2/25/21 RiNo Art District
“The RiNo Art District is currently seeking funding for the development of the RiNo Art Park in River North. The three-acre park will be located at 35th and Arkins Court and will become a hub for recreation, creativity, learning, dining and entertainment.”
9/29/2020 Mile High CRE
Businesses Excited For Brighton Boulevard Phase 1 Completion
"Denver Mayor Michael Hancock was on hand to cut the ribbon on phase one of the project, calling it a main artery to the city."
6/21/18 CBS 4 Denver
Here is how Denver plans to spend nearly $200 million in the first round of its massive bond package
"Paco Sanchez Park is set to receive $6.6 million to pay for the final stage of the “Re-Imagine Play” project, while $5 million will kick off construction on a river promenade in the River North Art District along Arkins Court."
5/1/18 The Denver Post
Former gang members offered jobs, second chances, through community-bred program
“People said they couldn’t be effective in our community, and I see them out there working hard with a great job and future,” Jerome Hairston, a program manager for Family Environmental, said. “It’s showing folks that one or two mistakes, they can overcome them.”
The company has hired three people through the program since January at a starting rate of $16 an hour.
8/14/17 The Denver Post
Boaters have returned to the South Platte, but what about everyone else?
“We see this as a place they’re going to be walking their dog, they’re going to be strolling. This is going to be their outdoor living room, so to speak, and not as much guys and girls in spandex riding 30 miles per hour,” says Greg Dorolek, principal at Wenk Associates, the firm designing the park.
6/17/2016 Denverite
PHOTOS: RiNo Music Festival
8/29/2016 Marquee Magazine
RiNo Art District music fest kicks off development
"AEG Live Rocky Mountains partnered with Bernard Hurley to produce the first RiNo Music Festival. The music festival kicked off the development of six acres in the heart of the RiNo District."
2/26/2016 The Denver Channel- ABC 7
RiNo at “a boil,” not cooling off anytime soon
"The RiNo market doesn’t show signs of slowing down in 2016. Several upcoming public investments could have an outsize impact on the neighborhood.
4/19/2016 Denver Post
RiNopalooza: Music Festival Grounds Are the Latest Development in River North
"In the rapidly developing River North Arts District, an underused lot is being transformed."
8/2/2016 Westword
South Platte River is to be a key attraction of proposed RiNo entertainment district
"An entertainment district anchored by MillerCoors’ Blue Moon Brewing Co. in Denver’s River North neighborhood will serve as one of the first developments that will help the area’s namesake feature — the South Platte River — become a front door of sorts for RiNo."
2/17/2015 Denver Business Journal
“Denver-based Highside Development has proposed building an eight-story, roughly 151-key hotel at the northwest corner of 36th Street and Brighton Boulevard in the River North Art District, according to a concept plan recently submitted to the city.”
1/11/21 Denver Business Journal
Construction is underway on the 14-acre development in one of Denver's hottest neighborhoods.
10/17/18 Denver Business Journal
A Denver nonprofit has built 270 bridges in impoverished places around the world. Now it’s turning to its backyard in RiNo.
"In Denver’s River North Art District, near the group’s Five Points headquarters, it is working with community leaders to adapt its standard cable-suspension bridge design for its first U.S. span: a South Platte River crossing that, as soon as next summer, could connect Globeville to the burgeoning area near Brighton Boulevard."
10/30/17 The Denver Post
Rampaging RiNo: Trendy Denver district expects office space to double in 5 years
"Along with all the new artists' studios, drinking spots and apartments, Denver's River North district is seeing a eruption of new office space."
8/15/17 Denver Business Journal
The battle to crown Denver’s Top Taco is going down this Thursday
"Is there any pursuit more noble than eating taco after taco in the attempt to find the perfect one? I think not, which is why Top Taco, happening Thursday, June 22 at the River North Festival Grounds, isn’t so much an optional event as it is a morally imperative one."
7/20/17 The Denver Post
"PSST… CHICKEN FIGHT! FESTIVAL WILL TAKE OVER RINO"
5/14/17 The Denver Ear
RiNo Promenade plans & funding in the works; fundraiser Friday
"Developer Bernard Hurley envisions a "festival street" including breweries, cafes, restaurants and music venues. The project would create around 12 acres of public space for the community".
4/28/17 Denver 7
A mile-long park and an elevated walkway along the South Platte: The latest plans for RiNo Promenade
"The general idea is to create a series of plazas connected by walking routes. Interesting features could include a steel observation tower that “gets you up off the ground … so you have some views out over the river and up into the trees,” Wethington said.
The project is 'really meant to speak to RiNo, specifically, and a lot of what you see in that area is adaptive reuse.'"
1/12/2017 Denverite
Bike-In Theater, Music Venues and More Coming to RiNo withHurley Place
"RiNo Music Festival recently held its inaugural concert series in the RiNo district, showcasing a variety of local and national talent. Little does Denver know, the music festival merely foreshadows what the district can expect in the upcoming years."
9/1/2016 303 Magazine
Denver just unveiled one of its most interesting public spaces in recent memory
07/20/2022 Denver Post
“River North Art District (RiNo) has become a hotbed for technology and start-up companies looking to expand or relocate to Denver. Now that RiNo is growing up, new sub-areas are emerging, and several fast-growing retail and commercial concepts are finding their next home in these up and coming areas”
3/29/2019 Mile High CRE
“Hurley’s bold vision for a huge open lot in between Chestnut and the river includes keeping it open, true to the neighborhood, and local.”
10/18/18 Denver 7 News
The “best-kept secret” in RiNo: An independent developer’s $250 million plan to bring the party to the river
"..Hurley has been assembling the money and land for an ambitious and unusual project that could finally deliver the kind of dense, interconnected and green space that has eluded RiNo’s redevelopment. His plan for “Hurley Place,” the developer says, is the best-kept secret on the South Platte."
2/17/2017 Denverite
Denver’s Gritty Back Door Could Become Its New Gateway
"Business promoters now want to create an international trade hub in the district and are ready to capitalize on what they see as one of Denver’s last development frontiers. The developer Sean Campbell and World Trade Center Denver, a nonprofit organization that helps regional businesses, have proposed building a $200 million international business campus in RiNo."
12/27/2016 The New York Times
RiNo Music Festival glimpses into neighborhood’s cultural future
“'Five years from now, this is going to be the best part of Denver,” Hurley said, gesturing toward the area from where he stood near the bank of the South Platte River."
12/5/16 Denver Post
Blue Moon Brewing to open brewery, taproom in River North
“What better place to locate our new brewery than in River North, the arts district?” Villa said. “To me, it’s a fantastic synergy — the perfect time, the perfect storm for the two entities to come together — River North and Blue Moon Brewing Company.”
2/24/2016 Denver Post
Blue Moon Brewing to anchor new RiNo entertainment district
"Miller Coors' Blue Moon Brewing Co. will anchor a new, five-acre entertainment district in Denver's River North neighborhood, the project's developer said Monday."
2/13/2015 Denver Business Journal
Big plans in the works for RiNo District
"Bernard Hurley owns six acres near the area of North 38th and Chestnut streets. He’s looking to turn it into an entertainment mecca called Hurley’s Place with live music venues, apartment buildings, shops, a bike-in movie theater, a river walk and a large-scale promenade.
“We’re just excited to create this sense of place that we feel does not exist in the city right now," Hurley said."
8/29/2016 Fox Denver 31
DPR Celebrates the Grand Opening of Arkins Promenade
07/14/2022 City / COunty of denver
Elevated Promenade Opens at Denver’s RiNo ArtPark
07/13/2022 Mile High Cre
"With 250 acres of redeveloped land, the National Western Complex will support Denver’s global standing as a world-class hub for agriculture and innovation."
-City and County of Denver
"National Western leadership is currently working with a multitude of partners including the City and County of Denver, Colorado State University, the Museum of Nature and Science and History Colorado to explore a site plan that would reinvent the complex for the next 100 years. "
-NWC
Colorado State University is a key partner in the the reimagining of the National Western Center, a combined 250-acre site near Interstates 70 and 25, that is a planned year-round educational and entertainment hub for the city.
-Colorado State University
