Booze battle on your ballot | Businesses betting on 16th Street Mall | Luxury house off market for winter

Welcome to Denver Business Journal's weekly LinkedIn newsletter. I'm Managing Editor Alicia Cohn, rounding up Denver business news to keep you in the know when time is short.

Will Colorado grocers sell wine? Will DoorDash be able to deliver alcohol? Will liquor stores expand locations? 

Voters will decide those questions on November ballots—which were mailed this week.

Here is the backstory on the loud and messy history of alcohol legislation in the state. This year, voters will decide some of the questions legislators couldn't in the past.

Here's more info on Proposition 125 and Proposition 126, which would allow all grocery and convenience stores to sell wine and permit third-party delivery of alcoholic beverages, respectively.

Here's more info on Proposition 124, an effort to allow liquor stores to vastly increase their number of locations in Colorado.

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Real estate deals of the week

Galvanize lists last remaining Denver location for sublease

Girl Scouts of Colorado opening first-of-its-kind center in Lowry

Sun Valley neighborhood to get 200 new apartments south of Empower Field at Mile High

'The market spoke back to us': Why this $21M Denver-area estate will try again next year

Note from Alicia: This shot of the "once in a lifetime" $21 million estate in Greenwood Village barely even looks like Colorado to me. While the competition for luxury homes locally recently took a step up with Russell Wilson's record-setting $25 million purchase, the category may be cooling along with every other segment of the market. Read more here.

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Denver news bites

Popup Denver sees mixed success — but more businesses are looking to open on the 16th Street Mall

Note from Alicia: I hate to be all "in my day..." about it, but I used to live in a studio apartment off 16th at Champa so I'm particularly invested in the reinvention of the 16th Street Mall. Happy to learn that so are Denver leaders.

A Denver underwear maker just released a hard seltzer for Halloween. And the reason why makes perfect sense.

As salary growth slows, here's how much wages are rising in Denver

Louisville shed maker sees demand shift from home offices to ADUs

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Fundraise of the week

Colorado startup funding: Fewer but bigger deals in Q3

Note from Alicia: There's been a lot of fear over layoffs in tech this quarter — but the data shows a little more nuance when it comes to the health of the industry in Colorado.

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This weekly round-up of Denver business news was compiled by DBJ's managing editor. I'm also reading this CPR story about the rise in out-of-state patients coming to Colorado for abortions this year.

Questions? Comments? Concerns? Send them to acohn@bizjournals.com