Hotel Boulderado workers are moving to unionize this month, saying layoffs, reduced hours and heavier workloads followed the hotel’s sale to AJ Capital Partners, a Nashville-based real estate investment firm.
The firm bought the 117-year-old hotel in March 2025 from Frank Day, a prominent figure in Colorado’s hospitality industry who had owned it for 45 years. At the time, Sam Blundell, then the general manager of the Boulderado’s bars and restaurants, told Boulder Reporting Lab that employees were optimistic and he didn’t expect major changes.
Blundell was later fired, according to Boulderado employees…