Follow Freda: South Metro briefs from the Sept. 10 Villager
Freda Miklin’s Sept. 10 briefs cover Littleton Restaurant Week, In-N-Out’s Denver plans, a Greenwood Village hit-and-run arrest, FEMA disaster aid, and the CCA presidency.
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These items ran as Follow Freda news briefs in the Sept. 10 print issue. The Centennial Chalk Art Festival brief from the same column is seeded as its own draft.
Littleton Restaurant Week
Littleton Restaurant Week takes place Sept. 11–20. Participants include Bistro 36 Drinkery & Eatery, Cherry Cricket Littleton, Manning’s Steak House, Platte River Bar and Grill, The Melting Pot Littleton, and 22 others. Go to https://www.littletonbusinesschamber.org/events/restaurant-week to see all their names and their special plans for Restaurant Week.
In-N-Out Burger plans
In-N-Out Burger has submitted plans to the City and County of Denver to build a new location of its popular restaurant at 1470 S. Colorado Blvd., near the Colorado Blvd. exit of Interstate 25, in the former location of the Black-Eyed Pea, which closed three years ago. According to published reports, the site plan indicates it will be just under 4,000 square feet and will have 74 seats inside the restaurant and 58 outside. This will be In-N-Out’s 16th Colorado location.
Greenwood Village hit-and-run arrest
On September 3, Greenwood Village Police arrested Luis Enrique-Pena, 19, of Westminster, CO, on charges of vehicular homicide due to reckless driving, hit-and-run involving serious injury or death, and driving with a revoked license, in connection with the fatal hit-and-run collision on I-25 near Orchard Road on August 30 that resulted in a fatality. The suspect is being held at the Arapahoe County Detention Center.
FEMA disaster assistance
FEMA has approved federal disaster assistance to the state of Colorado to supplement recovery efforts in the areas affected by the wildfires, flooding and mudslides between June 27 and July 29, 2026. Public assistance federal funding is available to the state, tribal, and eligible local governments and certain private nonprofit organizations on a cost-sharing basis for emergency work and the repair or replacement of facilities damaged by wildfires, flooding, and mudslides in Custer, Dolores, Ouray, and Pueblo counties.
Community College of Aurora
Dr. Mordecai Ian Brownlee has announced he will step down as president of Community College of Aurora, following over five years in that position, in December 2026. His leadership was praised by CCCS Chancellor Dr. Marielena DeSanctis.
Print source: The Villager, Vol. 44 No. 42, Sept. 10, 2026, page 7. Issuu edition. A packing-cubes brief on the same page was cut off in the extract and is not reconstructed here.