First look at Irvine Co.'s mixed-use proposal near Santa Clara Caltrain

On the heels of its hugely expanded Santa Clara Square project, Irvine Company is at it again — this time, kitty corner from Santa Clara’s Caltrain station.

The Newport Beach-based developer and landlord is proposing 417 apartment units with about 26,000 square feet of retail space. The site is on 6.4 acres the company now controls at Benton Street and El Camino Real, according to a city staff report released late Friday. The area is currently a mix of light-industrial buildings and older homes.

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Data center operator Equinix grows again in Sunnyvale

If you think those family vacation photos, work presentations and music files that you store “in the cloud” don’t exist anywhere in the physical world, you’re not exactly right: All that data means a need for servers, and data centers to house them in.

So it’s no surprise that Equinix, the giant data center and internet exchange company, is growing its office-space footprint in Sunnyvale. The company recently expanded its presence in there, leasing an entire 71,000-square-foot building at 1188 E.…

Foreclosed former Ashley Furniture store in Franklin auctioned off

A foreclosed former Ashley Furniture HomeStore on South 27th Street in Franklin was auctioned off to a lender for $3.24 million this month, and its vacant space is being marketed to new tenants.

Also this week, Ashley Capital (no relation) bought land in Sturtevant for its planned new business park.

The Franklin building at 6801 S. 27th St. has undergone a series of changes since Ashley Furniture left in summer 2013. Its prior owners pursued a series of other potential uses, including a warehouse…

Denver Business Journal named Colorado's best large weekly newspaper; staff wins 69 awards

The Denver Business Journal won 69 individual awards for excellence, including 36 first-place prizes — both the most in its history — as the Colorado Press Association presented its annual newspaper honors Saturday night.

For the third straight year, the DBJ was named Colorado’s best large weekly newspaper, winning the general excellence award in its size category. And it won three best-in-category sweepstakes awards for editorial, online and photo-design content in the statewide newspaper trade…

Frontier Airlines drops Denver-Durango flights

Frontier Airlines will not offer summer flights between Durango and Denver this year, leaving United Airlines as the only carrier serving the route.

The Durango Herald reported Denver-based Frontier’s plans late Friday.

Frontier has been shedding some of its regional routes in and out of Denver International Airport as it adds service in other cities.

The Herald says the move “comes at an awkward time” because some Durango officials have proposed an $80 million overhaul of the airport terminal.

Meanwhile,…