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Our Civic Preview Event marked a major milestone for Coba Bathhouse, serving as the public introduction of the project. Hear directly from our Co-Founders, Memphis Orion and Jon Medina, along with our Chief Storytelling Officer, Adam Lerner, about where we stand today, the long-term vision guiding the work, and the day one commitments shaping our decisions.
February 24, 2026
Memphis Orion’s steamy vision of Denver includes state-of-the-art saunas and cold plunges, salt scrubs, solariums, and towel-whipping “aufgussing” rituals. For now, however, the amenities for his new business are limited to a steel-frame trailer behind a gutted industrial building. His custom-built, solar-powered mobile sauna, or Cobacita, fits a little over a dozen people on its…
January 28, 2026
Bathhouses have been cultural fixtures around the world for centuries, but in the U.S. they’re having a modern resurgence. It’s the “new idea that is thousands of years old,” one founder expressed to Bloomberg, and it’s taking the place of bars and coffee shops. In a stark contrast to the modest traditional saunas built for quiet and stillness, new bathhouses like Othership can hold up to 90 people in a sauna at once. Young people…
January 26, 2026
It wasn’t the fiber-optic lighting, nor the tepid heat, that shocked Cécile Méguère the first time she entered a New York City sauna. It was the young woman in a bathing suit, bent over in downward dog. “I was looking at her, and I was like, ‘Oh my God, she thinks this is a hot yoga session!’” said Ms. Méguère…
January 16, 2026
The sauna industry is hot and only getting hotter — but the boom reveals more about happiness than it does about health. The bathhouse tiles echo with splashing water and hissing steam as you step down to the cold-plunge pool. On the final stair, the 29-year-old analyst in front of you starts…
January 15, 2026
here’s going to be a new bathhouse in the city. Picture the communal bathhouses that date back centuries, but modern with an urban garden with saunas, mineral pools and even a geothermal well to heat the tubs. That’s the plan for the area around Osage Street and…
December 2, 2025
All 11 of the wellness sectors identified in a new Global Wellness Institute Report now exceed their pre-pandemic levels, with wellness real estate and mental health leading the way. The global wellness economy has…
November 19, 2025
The New York-founded “social wellness destination,” as they call it, brings saunas, pools and massages, all with a Dune aesthetic. Now, they’re expanding to Los Angeles, Chicago and Nashville.
November 13, 2025
Orion hopes to bring that type of camaraderie to Denver with the opening of Colorado Bathhouse, or CoBa. The network of pools, saunas and lounges across two buildings and a plant-packed courtyard is planned for 1339 Osage St. in Denver’s Lincoln Park neighborhood…
November 12, 2025
The team behind Coba is a long way from realizing its grand vision to put a pool-packed wellness mecca south of downtown Denver. So, for the moment, the company — named by combining the words “Colorado” and “bathhouse” — has settled for a sauna on wheels. A custom-built trailer, called the Cobacita, sits…
October 24, 2025
The team behind Coba is a long way from realizing its grand vision to put a pool-packed wellness mecca south of downtown Denver. So, for the moment, the company — named by combining the words “Colorado” and “bathhouse” — has settled for a sauna on wheels. A custom-built trailer, called the Cobacita, sits…
October 23, 2025
The Colorado Energy Office (CEO) announced $7.3 million in awards through the third cycle of the Colorado Geothermal Energy Tax Credit Offering (GETCO) Thursday. This competitively awarded, refundable tax credit will support four thermal energy network projects in the state, including a feasibility study and three installations. Awardees include local governments…
October 16, 2025