VOLUME 19 | ISSUE 15
WEEK OF OCTOBER 12, 2023
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Arvada Resiliency Taskforce launches program for businesses dealing with impacts of crime Resources, grants part of curriculum aimed to help small business owners BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Olde Town BID Director Joe Hengstler discusses the program with the proprietor of Outside the Box. COURTESY ARVADA RESILIENCY TASKFORCE
As discussions about crime and homelessness have permeated throughout Arvada, the city’s Resiliency Taskforce launched a Crime and Safety Program to help connect small business owners with resources, community organizations and grants that aim to address these issues. The program was formed in response to a Q2 survey the Arvada Resiliency Taskforce
Ralston Road widening project delayed; completion now slated for spring BY RYLEE DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The Ralston Road widening project — initially slated for completion in May 2023 — is now projected to wrap in “spring 2024,” according to a bond project update given by the city team at the Sept. 25 Arvada City Council meeting. The delays in the project — which was initially funded by a 2018 bond measure — are owed to heavy rains, the discovery of unsuitable soft soil on the north side of the road near Central Park and additional stormwater work on the south side of the road, according to Infrastructure Engineer Padmini Gudipudi. The project seeks to widen Ralston Road lanes by two feet on each side and to widen the
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