A Texas operator of dine-in movie theaters said it will open a 10-screen theater in Aurora this spring. Movie Tavern will open in the former Independent Seven Hills 10 at 18605 E. Hampden Ave.
Cawley Partners, a Dallas- based real-estate investment firm, has bought the eight-story Symes building at 820 16th St., one of the city’s first all-steel-frame buildings.
U.S. Bancorp Foundation is awarding a $25,000 grant to Brothers Redevelopment Inc., a nonprofit housing counseling agency, to assist some 40,000 Colorado homeowners in some stage of foreclosure.
Barnhart Communications, a Denver-based marketing-communications firm, has been named agency-of-record by Bakers Square Restaurants. Bakers Square is owned by Denver-based Vicorp and operates 148 restaurants in California and the Midwest.
Xylem Interactive, a Denver-based interactive agency, was given an Interactive Media Award for outstanding achievement in the food/beverage category for the Jack Link’s Beef Jerky microsite, Messin’ with Sasquatch (mess inwithsasquatch.com).
Qwest employees and retirees have pledged $1.3 million to Mile High United Way in 2007.
Longmont-based DigitalGlobe will provide satellite imagery for the Lowrance iWay 600C portable navigation device.
IP Commerce Inc., a Denver-based provider of open payment software, said CIT Group Inc. has signed a license agreement to use the company’s payments framework.
Bolo Systems Inc., a Denver-based provider of accounting, land and production software and services for the oil- and-gas industry, announced that Houston-based EnerVest Management Partners has selected Bolo for its back-office systems.
International Bible Society, a Colorado Springs-based translator and distributor of scripture, and Send the Light, a distributor of Christian literature, announced plans to merge.
Bill Barrett Corp. of Denver announced that production for the year ended Dec. 31 was an estimated 52.1 billion cubic feet of natural-gas equivalent, up 32 percent from 2005. The company’s proved reserves at year-end were 428 billion cubic feet, a 26 percent increase from 2005.
UQM Technologies Inc., a Frederick-based developer of alternative energy technologies, said it has a $9.25 million order from Phoenix Motorcars Inc. for electric propulsion systems to power its new electric sport utility truck.
Royal Gold Inc. of Denver has agreed to buy a smelter royalty for $20.5 million on the Pascua Lama project, on the border between Chile and Argentina.
Archstone-Smith, an Arapahoe County-based apartment owner, declared a quarterly dividend of 45.25 cents per common share, payable Feb. 28 to shareholders of record Feb. 13.
Krische Construction will build the Summit Bank and Trust building at 16501 Washington St. in Thornton.
