by Billy Marino | Sep 7, 2026 | News & Policy
One of the best fire departments in the country serves West Colfax. This November, our community has a chance to make sure it stays that way. Here’s something worth knowing about the people who show up when something goes wrong: West Metro Fire Rescue is...
by Billy Marino | Sep 7, 2026 | Community & Culture
On the corner of West Colfax and Hoyt, where the city softens into greenhouse glass and the air smells faintly of cut stems and warm soil, a Lakewood staple has been quietly thriving for more than six decades. Veldkamp’s Flowers & Gifts is a sensory...
by Billy Marino | Sep 7, 2026 | Programs & Initiatives
There’s a moment that happens in August that’s hard to describe if you haven’t experienced it. The ballroom at Lakewood Country Club fills up, and it always fills up, with the people who have spent years steering the future of West Colfax. “The West Colfax Lately...
by Billy Marino | Aug 12, 2026 | Programs & Initiatives
In 2015, West Colfax Lately began with a promise: that this corridor — its neighborhoods, its business owners, its civic life — deserved coverage as serious and as steady as any part of the metro. For a decade, it kept that promise in print, a glossy magazine...
by Billy Marino | Aug 10, 2026 | Neighborhood Voices
On a quiet stretch of Pierce Street, two blocks from a freshly reimagined Casa Bonita and a two-minute walk from the W-Line, fifteen new townhomes are betting on the future of West Colfax. Pierce Creek Village, developed by Colorado-based Alliance Investments, is...
