MAKING DOLLARS & SENSE
MORE UP THAN DOWN
READ THE NEWS, OH BOY
CORRIDOR | PG 7
FLAIR! | PG 12
ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT | PG 18
Experts dissect economic development in south metro
Beautiful kids learn to be themselves
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VOLUME 35 • NUMBER 41 • AUGUST 31, 2017
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Trent and Ezra Tanner have fun honking the ooga horn on a 1917 Ford Model T at the Englewood Chamber of Commerce’s car show on Aug. 26. See more on page 6.
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Longtime resident enters race for Greenwood Village City Council Attorney and longtime Greenwood Village resident Tom Dougherty has announced his candidacy for City Council representing the city’s District 4. “This is a wonderful city in which to live,” he said in his announcement, “from the rural beauty of the western neighborhoods to the near-urban opportunities in the eastern part of the city.” In the wake of a failed ballot initiative earlier this year to allow a high-density development east of I-25, Dougherty’s campaign stresses the intentional history of the once-rural city south of Denver. Tom Dougherty “Just as early Greenwood Village residents worried about development spreading from Denver and impacting their Continued on page 2
Greenwood Village’s Jones runs for re-election
Greenwood Village City Councilmember Darryl Jones has launched a campaign for another term in District 2. “I am honored to have the support of so many of my neighbors in my re-election bid,” he said. “I hope to lend my experience in business and in both publicsector governance and private-sector business and management.” Jones and his family have lived in the Greenwood Hills neighborhood since 2005. They have three youngDarryl Jones adult children. Jones has worked in real estate development and city planning for nearly 30 years in both the public and private sectors on a variety of mixed-use and new-urbanism projects on east and west coasts. He is a former city planner and was on the City of Greenwood Village planning staff from 1998-2001. He has an extensive background in real estate development and regulation, urban design, city planning and development. Jones has served as a director on several professional organizations in the metro area, including the Metro Housing Coalition, and as president of the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver. Prior to City Council, he held a position on the Greenwood Village Board of Adjustments and Appeals. Jones is a 2007 graduate of the Greenwood Village citizen’s police academy. In 2011, his wife April, a Greenwood Village business owner, Continued on page 2