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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All aboard: State to help CDOT secure critical railroad land in central Denver
The Colorado Economic Development Commission came to the rescue of the Colorado Department of Transportation on Thursday morning, extending $7.5 million to help it purchase the Burnham Yard in central...

Surging gasoline prices reignite metro Denver’s inflation rate
Flat rents and moderating food costs weren't enough to prevent a spike in gasoline prices from driving a four-fold increase in metro Denver's previously subdued inflation rate, according to an...

Colorado’s flood risks are on the rise, and consumers will pay for it
Colorado and other mountain states don't just face a much higher risk of wildfires in the years ahead, but also of flooding, which could hit more homeowners directly in the...

Colorado unemployment insurance fraud cases hit 1.2 million; state to issue letters to victims
The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment plans to send out letters later this month to individuals and employers ensnared in the massive wave of fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits.

Denver startup Flock Homes looking to gather accidental or retiring landlords
When Shirlee Turner lost a long-time tenant in her Denver rental home at the same time her property manager announced he was retiring, it forced a reckoning.

Denver’s urban apartments could rebound faster than expected, Apartment List predicts
Tenants left more expensive urban apartment markets, including Denver, during the pandemic, but that trend is showing signs of reversing sooner and faster than expected, according to statistics gathered by...

Pat Meyers to steer Colorado’s post-pandemic economic recovery efforts
Gov. Jared Polis put Pat Meyers in charge of securing hard-to-find personal protective gear in the early day of the pandemic. Now he has recruited him to oversee the state's...

Fidelity Investments on a hiring spree with 375 new jobs slated for Colorado
Boston-based Fidelity Investments announced Wednesday that it plans to add 375 more employees in Colorado, part of a larger national push by the financial services giant to add 4,000 jobs,...

MLB All-Star Game’s return to “fully packed” Coors Field an unexpected boon for Colorado
Twenty-three years after baseball royalty descended on Denver, the Major League Baseball All-Star Game is returning to Coors Field.

Few Denver-metro tenants had trouble paying rent in March
Only one out of 50 apartment tenants in Colorado failed to make the rent last month and evictions are running at half the level seen a year ago, according to...