The Peloton is generating buzz around Boulder and Denver
30-year fixed-rate mortgage drops to new low
November 2nd, 2010
The 30-year fixed-rate mortgage average fell to an all-time low of 4.19 percent for the week ending Oct. 14, down from 4.27 percent last week, Freddie Mac said today, marking the 23rd week in a row that the rate has been under five percent. The last time 30-year FRM rates were this low was April 1951. “September’s employment report held no big surprises to financial markets, allowing long-term bond yields and fix mortgage rates to continue to ease,” said Frank Nothaft, vice president and chief economist at Freddie Mac. “As a result, both the 30-year and 15-year fixed mortgage rates hit all-time record lows for the third consecutive week.” Historically low rates have spurred yet another refinancing wave, Nothaft added. According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, conventional mortgage applications for refinance jumped 24 percent over the week of Oct. 8 to the strongest pace since mid-April 2009. TRD
Kelly Whitaker of Pizzeria Basta Simple – But Super Refined
September 21st, 2010
Chef Kelly Whitaker is excited about many things – pizza, sous vide, his HAACP plan, the new entrees on his menu and coffee. Coffee? Yes, coffee. Kelly has a new coffee system and, when I ask for mine iced he makes it for me himself. As I am waiting, his daughter toddles over (she is 3) carrying a shallot. Yes, a shallot. Not a doll, not a stuffed animal but a shallot. Like father, like daughter I suppose.
Pizza Biz: Pizzeria Basta
September 21st, 2010
We finally had a chance to try Pizzeria Basta, the wood-fired pizza shop in Boulder that’s been grabbing a lot of headlines (the latest of which was amention in the October issue of Bon Appétit). Our lunch on the patio was simple: a bowl of rustic and velvety roasted red pepper and tomato soup with mascarpone; a straightforward salad of romaine, lemon juice, olive oil, and pepper; an Italian-style pepperoni pizza; and a calzone topped with melted Grana Padano. Simplicity and quality is what Basta is all about. Chef-owner Kelly Whitaker uses a decades-old starter for his pizza dough, he hand-stretches mozzarella and makes his own ricotta for the salads and pizzas, and he employs as much local produce as he can get. We look forward to going back and trying items from the rest of the menu–especially the La Quercia speck, prosciutto, and pickled-vegetable charcuterie plate and the cart-driver pizza with house-made sausage, rapini, house-made mozzarella, fennel pollen, and chiles. Tip: The lunch special is an excellent deal: $10 buys you a pizza, sandwich, or calzone with a choice of salad or soup. 3601 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-997-8775 –Amanda M. Faison
Boulder’s newest accolade: Foodiest Town, courtesy of Bon Appetit
September 15th, 2010
By Cindy Sutter, Camera Staff Writer
Posted: 09/15/2010 12:34:32 PM MDT
Boulder is brainy and fit, but we also know how to stuff our bellies with style. At least that’s the conclusion of Bon Appetit magazine, which named Boulder Foodiest Town of 2010 in its October issue.
Boulder tops the list of brainiest cities
September 15th, 2010
BOULDER – One popular Colorado city is known for many things, but now it can be known as the brainiest city in America.
Boulder was named the brainiest city in the country by the Daily Beast because more than 24 percent of adults have graduate or professional degrees, with 7 percent of them in computer math and 3 percent in science. It is also home to the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Space Institute and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.
According to the Daily Best website, they came up with the ranking by looking at the number of adults with graduate professional degrees and those with degrees either math or science.
No. 2 on the list was Durham, N.C. The only other Colorado city to make the rankings was Fort Collins/Loveland, which came in at No. 14.
(KUSA-TV © 2010 Multimedia Holdings Corporation)
Cisneros: Worst may be over for Colo. housing market
August 25th, 2010
Despite a 27 percent drop in July home resales nationwide, the worst appears to be over for Colorado’s housing market, according to national housing expert Henry Cisneros.
The country’s urban centers are increasing in population and leading the way to housing recovery, said Cisneros, former secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill Clinton and now executive chairman of CityView, an institutional investment firm focused on urban real estate, in-city housing and metropolitan infrastructure.
Cisneros: Worst over for Colorado housing market
August 25th, 2010
Colorado’s housing market will continue to face challenges, but the worst appears to be over, according to national housing expert Henry Cisneros, a former Cabinet secretary who was in Denver on Tuesday.
“I think the bleeding has stopped in Colorado,” Cisneros said of the state’s housing market. “There are no huge drops in price here, no large inventories.”
Workout of the week: Pilates Circuit
August 16th, 2010
Camera staff
Posted: 08/10/2010 04:00:00 PM MDT
Pilates Junction, 3601 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-374-4581, pilatesjunctionboulder.com
Instructor: Jodi Woodruff, 47, of Boulder, has been teaching Pilates for 13 years. She opened the Pilates Junction almost two years ago. Woodruff studied dance at the University of Colorado and has run Pilates teacher-training workshops.
She teaches classical Pilates, just a few generations down from the founder of Pilates.
“My goal is not to dilute it down, to stay true to the form and not deviate because the form works,” she says.
I would soon find out how well it works.
Urban condo living succeeds in Boulder
July 30th, 2010
By Margaret Jackson
The Denver Post
Posted: 07/30/2010 01:00:00 AM MDT
The Peloton condominium project in Boulder is seeing success that many developments haven’t enjoyed over the past year, grossing almost $23.5 million in sales.
Of the 744 condos sold in Boulder over the past year, 70 of them were in the Peloton’s 190-unit first phase, including 41 in 2010.
Sales soaring at Peloton
July 23rd, 2010
Want to know what the top-selling community in Boulder is?
It’s The Peloton, located between 33rd and 38th streets on Arapahoe Avenue.
The Peloton has had 70 sales in the past year and 41 sales in 2010 alone.
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