Golden Transcript 082621

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August 26, 2021

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JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO

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VOLUME 155 | ISSUE 36

What’s new at Golden middle schools?

One of four new science classrooms built as part of an addition to Bell Middle School in Golden.

Bond improvements nearing completion at Bell and Manning schools BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The students returning to classrooms at Golden’s Bell Middle School and the Manning School of Academics & Arts on Aug. 17 and 18 had plenty to be excited about. For one, it was the first time many of them have

set foot on campus in over a year — or at all in the case for all the sixth-graders and many of the seventh-graders. For another, the first day of school also provided their first look at the new renovations and additions that have added to and transformed their schools with bells and whistles ranging from state-of-the-art tech walls to a garage door that

PHOTO BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO

can be opened to flood a music room with natural light on sunny days. New rooms will transform science class At Bell, the highlight of the finished work is an 8,900-square-foot-addition that includes what Principal Michelle DeAndrea Austin describes four new “state-of-the-art science rooms,” plus new bathrooms. SEE SCHOOLS, P3

Developer eyes mixed-use with hotels, apartments on Colfax Hotel would function more like an AirBNB BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Visitors to Golden may soon be able to check into a new “self-ser-

vice” hotel on West Colfax. On Aug. 19, Maksim Avseev held a required public meeting to discuss a potential plan to construct a new mixed-use development on a vacant site he owns at 17200 West Colfax Avenue, just west of the retail area at Sixth Avenue and West Colfax. Avseev’s plans call for 16 hotel

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rooms and 27 apartment units that would be built over an underground parking lot. “The goal is to actually develop this piece of land, which is a nice piece of land, but I think it would look a lot better with a nice building on it,” said Avseev, who has owned the property since 2019. Avseev said the hotel will likely

not be a “standard hotel” with an around-the-clock front desk but rather more like a short-term rental type facility. However, it’s possible there would end up being a person on-site who would function as both a manager and maintenance person, he said. SEE COLFAX, P8

NOTES ON HISTORY G. Brown captures pop music’s roots

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