🚲 Could Colorado Blvd get a bike lane?

🚴 Will Colorado Boulevard Get a Protected Bike Lane?

Denver city planners are proposing updates to a long-term bicycle infrastructure plan that could add more than 230 miles of bike lanes on major roads like Speer and Colorado Boulevards. The current vision could require the removal of driving lanes and parking spots, but supporters are hopeful that there will be buy-in from city leaders and the community. [Denverite]

• Related: The mere proposal of a new bike lane on W. 29th Ave. has business owners up in arms about parking spaces. [City Cast Denver 🎧]

🏠 Tenants Seek Move-Out Extension on Condemned Building

Residents of an Aurora apartment building that was condemned by the city are requesting an extension of the Tuesday morning move-out deadline so they can find new housing. Tenants say they received less than a week’s notice. City officials say it would be irresponsible for the complex to remain open in its current state of disrepair. [Denver Post]

🏗️ How a Sales Tax Hike Could Fund Affordable Housing

This November, Denver voters may decide to tax themselves as part of Mayor Johnston’s new plan to pay for affordable housing. But what does that plan actually look like? An expert explains what, when, and how affordable housing could come to fruition with this proposed tax-funded proposition. [City Cast Denver 🎧]

🚌 Colfax BRT Gets Extra Cash

RTD received a $23 million boost from the Federal Transit Administration for its Colfax Bus Rapid Transit project, bringing the total of both local and federal funding to nearly $280 million. City Council plans to review the BRT construction contract before the planned groundbreaking later this year. [Mass Transit]

• Faster buses: How Colfax BRT Will Reshape Denver As We Know It [City Cast Denver 🎧]

Many myths surround Elizabeth McCourt “Baby Doe” Tabor – that she was a gold digger, an adulterer, an eccentric woman who spent her last days penniless, holding tight to the deed of the dwindling Matchless Mine in Leadville. But at least one piece of her famous story is true: She married a millionaire politician wearing a wedding gown so unique and lavish that its existence still captivates Coloradans today.

History Colorado recently launched a special campaign to raise money for the restoration of the wedding dress, which was worn by the Leadville damsel in 1883 when she wed Horace Tabor, one of the richest men in the country at the time. It allegedly cost more than $7,000 -- which would be equal to nearly $250,000 in today's money!

Amid a series of bad business decisions, the Tabors eventually lost all of their money when the price of silver crashed in 1893, leading them to sell off their expensive possessions. Yet Baby Doe still held onto the dress, carting it around in an old trunk through boarding house stays and eventually to her home and final resting place, a tiny shack next to the Matchless Mine in Leadville. After her death, the gown was on display for decades at History Colorado but unfortunately, the lack of climate control led the fabric to deteriorate. An effort to conserve the dress in the 1980s helped a little, but the silk and lace masterpiece now remains in storage to keep it from any more damage.

So why is this dress, of everything in the museum's massive collection, being restored?