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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Victrola, a maker of record players since the early 1900s, is still around and has moved its HQ to Denver
Victrola popularized the phonograph and records early last century, becoming an American icon along the way. Now, the brand's modern-day successor has moved its headquarters to Denver as it rolls...

Hiring by restaurants and local governments drives strong Colorado job gains to start the year
Colorado's economy started 2021 on a much better footing than where initial reports had it ending 2020, thanks to major revisions to last year's employment numbers and strong hiring by...

Colorado homeowners accumulated an average of $32,000 in home equity last year
For homeowners in Colorado and across the country, 2020 was a year of enrichment unrivaled since 2013, when the nation was bouncing back from the housing crash.

Unemployed Coloradans won’t face a cutoff in federal benefits this weekend
True to its name, the American Rescue Plan has arrived in the nick of time to prevent hundreds of thousands of Colorado workers collecting unemployment benefits from getting cut off...

Betting on a strong rebound in travel, Frontier Airlines to make another run at a public offering
Having survived the most turbulent year ever in the global aviation industry, Denver-based Frontier Airlines is making plans again to go public, heading full throttle into what it expects will...

Colorado business community asks legislature for a timeout on new regulations and higher taxes
A coalition of business groups pleaded with Colorado lawmakers Tuesday to avoid passing any legislation that would make it more complicated or costly to operate a business in the state.

Boulder leads the nation for highest share of Gen Z rental applications
Colorado wooed millennials from around the country last decade, with tens of thousands moving to the Front Range to launch their careers. But the signals are more mixed on whether...

Colorado law enforcement joining forces to crack down on unemployment insurance fraud
The Colorado attorney general, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment and district attorneys from across the state are teaming up to halt and prosecute...

Nearly a fourth of Colorado households are behind on their power bills, study estimates
The share of Colorado households behind on their power bills is similar to before the pandemic, about one-in-four, but the how much they owe has risen significantly, according to a...

Metro Denver housing market selling homes faster and faster
At the end of last month, there were only 1,120 townhomes and condos available for sale across all of metro Denver and nearby areas, according to a monthly update from...