Sixty-plus businesses along Pearl Street share a single outdoor WiFi network branded #Pearl, covering the bricks from 8th to 20th Streets without a separate password required at any one storefront — a detail that changes the quick-lunch math downtown. Instead of hunting for one café willing to host a laptop through a …

Avery Brewing Company's Boulder taproom pours from an on-site brewhouse and seats a rotating weekday crowd at long communal tables — the kind of layout that, almost by accident, doubles as one of the more work-friendly rooms in the city on a slow afternoon. Boulder's brewery and taproom scene wasn't built with laptops …