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Become a member and be a better Denverite every day.

Become a member and be a better Denverite every day.

Become a member and be a better Denverite every day.

Become a member and be a better Denverite every day.

Desiree Mathurin

Neighborhood Reporter

desiree@denverite.com @dez_am

Desiree Mathurin is Denverite's neighborhood reporter. She previously worked for the Associated Press in Atlanta, Newsday in New York and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Desiree is a native New Yorker but ready to tell local stories featuring local people here in Denver. Follow her on Twitter @Dez_AM.

Melissa Diaz stands in front of a mural in the courtyard of the Viña Apartments in Elyria-Swansea. May 4, 2022.

Viña Apartments opens in Elyria-Swansea providing 150 affordable units to residents

Half of the units are for those earning between 30% and 50% of the area median income.

Pacific Ocean Marketplace in Athmar Park, Feb. 25, 2020. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Pacific Ocean Marketplace, a Denver-born supermarket, sold to a national Asian grocer

Pacific Ocean Marketplace opened in 1988. It's been acquired by the Asian grocer, Great Wall Supermarket.

LaSheita Sayer, founder of Melody Market, stands inside her new Welton Street storefront. April 26, 2022.

Melody Market finally opens in Five Points, serving neighbors convenience and their favorite treats

"It's more than a 7-Eleven. It isn’t a convenience store. It's a convenient store.”

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Dusk falls over the Colorado Safe Parking Initiative's site at Arvada Covenant Church. Sept. 8, 2021.

Lakewood considers first safe outdoor parking site, following Denver and other metro cities’ lead

Homes in Washington Park West that are surrounded by I-25's Broadway on- and off-ramps. April 19, 2022.

Six homes on a tiny Wash Park West block may be demolished for the sake of a highway and ‘pedestrian-friendly’ roadways

But homeowners don't know when the city will come knocking.

Dana Ramirez embraces City Council member Jamie Torres after cutting the ribbon on her family's new ADU in Westwood. April 22, 2022.

This completed ADU shows West Denver residents that they too can build generational wealth

The Ramirez family's ADU was built with help from a pilot program aimed at preventing westside residents from being displaced.

Councilman Jolon Clark listens during a Safety, Housing, Education, & Homelessness Committee meeting discussing expanded powers for the Office of the Independent Monitor, Jan. 16, 2019.

Jolon Clark, former Denver city council president, will not seek re-election next year

The councilmember has represented southwest Denver in District 7 since 2015.

Fresh tomatoes at the Union Station farmers market. (Kevin J. Beaty/Denverite)

Denver farmers’ markets are back and one favorite is focused on working with smaller farms

A handy list of markets returning Saturdays, Sundays and even Wednesdays.

Denver City Council at-large candidate Leslie Twarogowski

Leslie Twarogowski joins three others in at-large City Council race

Twarogowski is the current executive director of the Federal Boulevard Business Improvement District.

Re:Vision on Morrison Road. Westwood, Sept. 21, 2021.

How this nonprofit in Westwood is avoiding being gentrified out of the area

Re:Vision has partnered with a real estate nonprofit to stay on the westside.