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• Bike Shorts Film
Fest
• West End 3K
• Sales tax Revenues Up
• Save Water, Save Money
• Frasca Chef Wins Top Honors
• Brainiest Place To Retire
• Noon Tunes
• Parking Pay Station Q &
A
• Web site Tips and Tricks
• Spotlight
On: Bands on the Bricks
Community
Cycles Hosts Bike Shorts Film Fest Community
Cycles, this year’s coordinator of Walk
& Bike Month, will host the second annual
Bike Shorts Film Festival. This year’s
film festival will be held at the Boulder Theater on
Bike to Work Day, Wednesday, June 25, at 7:00 p.m. There
will be a selection of 12 to 14 short cycling films
celebrating the potential and fun uses of the bicycle.
www.communitycycles.org.
West End 3k
On June 26, Downtown's own West End will host the West
End 3K road race. This is a great event for participants
as well as spectators. Many of the area’s top
runners show up to test their speed on this very fast,
2-loop course. There will also be a kids' 1,500 meter
run. Click
here to learn more
Sales
Tax Revenues Increase
Sales tax revenues thru April saw a jump with comparable
collections up nearly 4% for Downtown. The City as a
whole saw an increase of 1.8%.
Click here to view the Sales Tax Revenue Reports.
Save Water, Save Money
Beginning June 1, Boulder business and institutional
water customers have new options to save money based
on your chosen water budget allowing for legitimate
variations of water demand without pushing water rates
into expensive penalty pricing.
The full range of options will be reviewed at a free
lunch meeting at the Chamber on Thursday, June 26, 11:30
a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Call Dan Powers to RSVP at 303-442-1044
ext. 122 or dan.powers@boulderchamber.com.
You can learn more about the City's water budget system
at www.boulderwater.net.
Frasca
Chef Wins Top Honors
Downtown Boulder would like to congratulate Frasca Food
and Wine chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, who was named
the James Beard Foundation Best Chef in the Southwest.
Chef Lachlan can add the award to his others, including
Food and Wine Magazine's Best New Chefs in 2005.
Click here learn more
Boulder Brainiest Places to Retire
US News and World Report took their list of 1000
Best Places to Retire and came up with the 10 Ten Brainiest
Places to Retire for their May issue. As no surprise
to Boulder's retired population, the City made their
list.
Click
here to learn more.
Noon Tunes
Take a break this summer on Fridays from noon to 1:30
p.m. and enjoy lunch in Downtown Boulder while you take
in the sights and sounds on the Bricks with Downtown
Boulder's Noon
Tunes. Noon Tunes features great local music from
all genres—bluegrass, folk, rock, and classical.
The concerts are held in the 1300
block of Pearl on the Bricks (in front of the Boulder
County Courthouse) and are free for everyone!
Click
here to learn more.
Parking Pay Station Q & A
Now that the solar powered pay stations are
up and running there is a question on everyone's mind:
Q: Can I use my Downtown
Boulder Gift Card to pay at a pay stations?
A: Yes! The DBI
Gift Card is authorized to work on all the parking
pay stations throughout downtown.
If you have a specific question you would like answered
send an email to parking@dbi.org.
Web
Site Tips and Tricks
Did You Know…
You can look up all the happy hours Downtown with a
handy map and guide?
Try it...
- Go to BoulderDowntown.com
- Click the Happy
Hours link on our homepage
- Use the links to navigate and find all the drink
and food specials Downtown.
- The sidebar
has transportation options to help you find your
way home safely.
Check it out now at boulderdowntown.com.
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