DENVER-Average rents fall by nearly 2% from the beginning of the year, while owners of new developments offer as much as three months free rent on a one-year lease.

AURORA, CO-The $4.3-billion project will create $3.1 billion annually in activity by 2010 and $6.3 billion upon completion, according to an independent study by Washington, D.C.-based Hammer, Siler, George Associates.

DENVER-Convention delegates coming to Denver as a result of the expansion will pay an additional $10 million in city taxes every year, says Eugene Dilbeck, president of the Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau.

DENVER-Colorado Cinema Holdings is in the midst of a $1.3-million upgrading of an eight-screen movie theater in the Cherry Creek shopping center, which includes new rocker/loveseat chairs with retractable arms.

DENVER-A world's record crowd is expected at today's groundbreaking of the $268-million Colorado Convention Center, which will have the largest amount of exhibition space west of Chicago's McCormick Place.

DENVER-The Southern Ute Indian Tribe seeks an architect to design its Sky Ute Casino in southwestern Colorado, as well as provide a cost estimate on the proposed expansion.

MERIDIAN, CO-It hardly puts a dent in the 420,000 sf the brokerage house vacated in the Meridian International Business Park in Douglas County. However, the company picks ParkRidge Corporate Center to house its 401(k) account division.

DENVER-The ability for hotel workers to unionize, the developer taking a look at several sites and having a track record of good minority hiring are three non-negotiable points Mayor Wellington Webb puts on the table.