Officials are now scrutinizing how power-hungry projects might affect the electric bills.

Furniture, medical and alcohol costs are among the big gainers, while restaurant increases remains stubbornly high.. Gasoline prices were down nearly 20% in January.

Not everyone in the state is open to the plant’s arrival, even with the 500 jobs planned.

Residential vacancy taxes are both novel and controversial.

QuikTrip, based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, paid $3 million for the 1.37-acre lot at 1595 W. 48th Ave., according to public records.

The project would bear Trammell Crow’s Alexan branding. The company has other Alexan projects in the Highlands, Platt Park, Green Valley Ranch and Aurora.

Chicago-based Evergreen Real Estate Group submitted a proposal to Denver to construct an 80-unit complex at 1275 Decatur St., formerly home to a school building.