Economy and Residential Real Estate Reporter — The Denver Post
Aldo Svaldi
Aldo Svaldi covers the Colorado economy, economic development and residential real estate for The Denver Post. Prior to joining the newspaper in December 2000, he worked at Financial Times Energy, the Denver Business Journal and Arab News. His coverage has won awards from the Colorado Press Association, the Society of American Business Editors and Writers, and the Society of Professional Journalists. He is a two-time finalist for the Gerald Loeb Awards and a receipient of the Morton Margolin Prize for Distinguished Business Reporting.
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The Big Payout: Colorado received close to $66 billion in pandemic aid. We tracked where that money went.
Colorado received around $11,426 per person in federal assistance during the pandemic. But distribution was uneven. Pitkin County collected more than $19,000 per resident, while Crowley County only brought in...

Zachary Davidson, Denver Landmark developer, and his fall from grace
Zachary Davidson, Denver Landmark developer, and his fall from grace

Heartbreak along Mockingbird Lane
Heartbreak along Mockingbird Lane
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SEC orders asset freeze on Denver-based Outdoor Capital Partners
The Securities and Exchange Commission issued a temporary restraining order and asset freeze to stop what it alleges was a "fraudulent offering of securities and misappropriation of investor assets' by...

Colorado kept building homes during the pandemic last year, but where they were built changed
Despite the economic headwinds the nation faced last year, homebuilders pulled nearly one million more single-family home permits in 2020 than they did in 2019, making it the most robust...

Empower Retirement to take over Prudential Financial’s retirement business in billion-dollar deal
Empower Retirement continues to roll up competitors, with Prudential Financial's retirement business just the latest in a string of deals the Greenwood Village company has put together.

Metro Denver records second biggest jump in supply of homes for sale in U.S. last month
The supply of homes available for sale is rising across the country this summer, and metro Denver is seeing some of the biggest increases anywhere, according to a survey from...

Colorado’s unemployment system adding multifactor authentication to cut back on fraud
The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment will require multifactor authentication in early August for accounts at MyUI+, the state's online portal used to file unemployment insurance claims. It's part...

Colorado’s unemployment rate remains elevated at 6.2%
Colorado employers added 10,800 jobs in June, according to Friday's monthly update from the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment.

Federal grand jury indicts DaVita, former CEO Kent Thiry on two conspiracy counts
The federal government alleges Denver-based DaVita Inc. and former CEO Kent Thiry allegedly conspired with other firms in the dialysis and kidney care business to not solicit each other's employees....

Colorado approves nearly $20 million in incentives in return for 1,020 potential new jobs
The four applicants, whose identities are secret, come from an array of industries, including a maker of vertical landing aircraft.

Nearly one in five metro Denver homes occupied by someone who moved since 2017
In some parts of the country, when people land in a home they tend to hunker down and stay put for decades, but Denver isn't one of those places, according...

Boulder remains at top of “Best Places to Live” list for second year
Last year, Colorado boasted four metro areas among the top 10 in U.S. News & World Report's "Best Places to Live" list, no small accomplishment. But the pandemic has changed...