Ever wanna got professional design advice to decorate and beautify your beloved home? This Saturday, October 1st, get inSPIRED with West Elm, Williams-Sonoma and Pottery Barn at our special Fall Home Design Fair held at 891 14th Street.

The featured on-site design consultations and workshops offered by those vendors will be great chances to pick up some fantastic decorating and entertaining tips. Join this special event in viewing showcase of home services, including green cleaning, floral, personal chefs, and photography, from other vendors as well. The fair is free to attend and it lasts for 4 hours long.

Enter to win a Spire Experience package worth over $300! Don’t miss this unique opportunity! 10 am the fair begins! Come and join us!

Get inSPIRed at the SPIRE

This month we’ve come up with another super exclusive giveaway that will give you a taste of the best of our downtown Denver neighborhood. Just another reason to eat, drink and, be merry in good ‘ol Denver, CO.

Ever wonder what it would be like to live in a high-rise like the SPIRE? Well enter to win 24hrs. of the inSPIREd lifestyle and you can see for yourself!

If you’re the lucky grand prize winner, here’s what you’ll receive:

—A one night stay in a SPIRE guest suite for you and a guest

—$100 for dinner at Row 14

—$25 for breakfast at Snarf’s

—$25 for lunch at Organic Pizza Company

—Unlimited use of the 9th and 10th floor amenity

Runner Up:

The runner up will receive a bottle of wine valued at $50 or less at Row 14.

To Enter, go to the sweepstakes tab on the SPIRE Denver Facebook page.

So, what are you waiting for!? Experience 24 hrs. of the exclusive lifestyle at the SPIRE Denver!

About Row 14:

Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar opened in SPIRE in March 2011 as a sophisticated yet approachable New American neighborhood restaurant with a strong focus on the relationship between accessible wines and seasonal food offerings.

About Snarf’s:

Long a Boulder lunch fixture, Snarf’s landed in Denver a few months ago. Since then, the Capitol Hill sandwich shop has done brisk business. For the uninitiated, the offerings range from standard (i.e. ham and cheese) to inspired eats like rotisserie chicken with Swiss or barbecue brisket and Swiss. All orders come with the fixings—mayo, mustard, lettuce, tomato, pickle, onion—and Snarf’s dynamite hot-pepper relish.

About Organic Pizza Company:

Simple, healthy ingredients. Delicious, signature recipes. Ready-to-bake pizzas plus fresh-and-delicious salads. Full of flavor and fun to share. Perfect for every occasion – like healthy dinners, festive parties, or corporate events.

Apartment vacancies in the Denver metro area are at a 10-year low, according to a report released this week. The current vacancy rate is 4.8 percent. Gordon Von Stroh, a business professor at the University of Denver and the report’s author states that “a vacancy rate below five percent is generally regarded as a sign that the market is tight.”

Why? There is a natural population increase in young people in the Denver area of about 35,000 a year. The first step for them is to move into an apartment. Due to the lack of construction of new apartment units, the vacancy rate moves even lower.

With lower vacancy rates, rent goes up. Median rents rose in Adams, Arapahoe and Jefferson counties. The largest year-over-year increase in median rent was Arapahoe county which increased four percent from $806.11 to $838.79.

It may be time to think about buying instead of renting. There are many great tools to help calculate if buying may be better for you. If you find that is the case, there’s no place better to live in Downtown Denver than at the SPIRE. Visit our Sales Center today to schedule a personal tour of our 42 story glass residential tower in the heart of downtown Denver at 720.457.7550

We love living in Denver because there is always so much happening on the weekends. Here are some great things going on that you should take advantage of:

Like art? This Friday is the first Friday in June, which means Santa Fe galleries are going to be packed with creative people. If you still have art cravings after First Friday, Saturday is a free day at the Denver Art Museum. It will give you a chance to see the Cities of Splendor exhibit if you haven’t already. Or head over to Red Bull Illume.

If you couldn’t tell, we are a big fan of the local food trucks. This Saturday night, Justice League of Street Food will be dishing up some of the best gourmet street food in the area. Trucks include: Novo Coffee’s Gastro Cart, The Denver Cupcake Truck, Steuben’s, Deluxe Street Food’s Little Orange Rocket, Biker Jim’s, Pinche Tacos, The Biscuit Bus, Sully’s Slice Truck, Stick it to Me, and The Steamin’ Demon. There will also be Great Divide beers, Tortoise Creek wines, and sangria to wash down the deliciousness.

To work up an appetite for the food truck madness, you might want to check out the great festivals going on in the city this weekend. Head over to Larimer Square to see Denver Chalk Art Festival. Amazing chalk art will cover the square by more than 150 professional and amateur artists. This tradition began in 16^th century Renaissance Italy, where artists created temporary chalk masterpieces on asphalt. Thus, there will be Italian food and wine tasting to accompany the event. As well as music and a kids’ corner where little ones get to play with chalk.

There’s also another festival this weekend, Capitol Hill People’s Fair will offer family activities, vendors, musicians, and food to benefit local nonprofits. If you do their passport scavenger hunt, you might win a year’s worth of Miller-Lite. Reverb posted the lineup for the bands during the festival. According to our resident music expert, you don’t want to miss Bop Skizzum (Sunday, June 5^th at 5:25 on CHUN Main Stage), Tequila Mockingbird (Sunday, June 5^th at 2:25 on the Miller Lite Stage), and Frogs Gone Fishing (Sunday, June 5^th at 4:25 on the Miller Lite Stage).

There’s always so many options for the weekends when you’re living in Downtown Denver. What are you planning on doing this weekend?

SPIRE is excited to announce a new social media contest launching tomorrow, Wednesday, June 1^st. This contest will be launched through our Facebook page. We want people to tell us the things that inSPIRE them about living in Denver. Entries are limited to one paragraph and three photos.

Grand prize (1 winner) will receive a one night stay at SPIRE in the guest suite on the evening of Saturday September 10, 2011 with full access to SPIRE amenities, two tickets to see Jay Leno Live in Denver (DCPA) on September 10, 2011, and a $100 gift certificate for dinner at Row 14 Bistro and Wine Bar.

Nine winners will receive honorable mention prizes which include: two $25 gift cards to Organic Pizza Company, two $25 gift cards to Snarf’s, two B-cycle memberships, and three Connect by Hertz memberships.

To get a head start, like our page now.  Start thinking about your inSPIREd ideas now. The contest ends July 6^th.

SPIRE is the hub of downtown living in Denver. We strive to create an online community through social media that connects people both online and offline through our events and crosspromotions.