Comments on: New Auraria Project: Campus Village – Phase 2

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 15:22:00 +0000

I agree that the Fed. Res. bank block is #1 block in downtown that should be completely redeveloped. Great ideas!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:10:00 +0000

I like the idea of this, but i really wish they had done this along the Speer side. It would have been a hell of alot better used as a transition to the CBD.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 18:36:00 +0000

I think the time has come to start to push for the Federal Reserve Bank be moved from its current location of the entire block between 15th and 16th and Arapahoe and Curtis. I think this is the single most attractive and underutilized block in downtown. The FRB is an ugly, single-use building that is taking up entirely too much space in such a prime location. With its location on the 16th Street Mall in the center of the DCPA, Four Seasons, Larimer Square, and Ritz Carlton this site should have a major multi-use development with an upscale shopping center, hotel, condominium/apartments, and office space. The tallest building in Denver should even be located here. This development would also make Skyline Park more appealing. The Greyhound bus station should be moved near the Brighton Blvd/I-70 ramps and the 40/40 train transfer station. The FRB could be built at the Greyhound site, which would only enhance the Federal District and be a more attractive neighbor to the Ritz-Carlton. After all, the Ritz spent over a hundred million dollars to retrofit their building. I also would love to see the National Western Stockshow moved to near DIA and especially the Purina plant closed, moved, or at least new technology installed to reduce/eliminate the odor it exudes. Hopefully, with the widening of I-70 it will be necessary to move Purina anyway. I think the quality of life in Curtis Park, downtown, and the surrounding areas will be greatly enhanced with these odor producing facilities removed from the area. The National Western site is ideal for redevelopment and the few historic buildings there can be beautifully renovated.

With an upscale shopping center on the 16th Street Mall it would revitalize the mall and hopefully spur the restoration of the California building and the redevelopment of the Cottrell's building. To further maximize the potential of 16th Street, the Market Street bus station should be redeveloped into a year-round indoor market like many other cities have. This would create a day-time attraction in LoDo, and I like how this site is on Market Street anyway.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:06:00 +0000

Wow! This will look great near the fairly lonely Invesco Field.

By: Matt Pizzuti

Matt Pizzuti — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:39:00 +0000

This plan looks extremely good.

I'm confused about why the buildings look so much taller in the third rendering than they do in the first two. The rendering shows more than 14 stories even just for the part that sticks up above the building in the foreground!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:19:00 +0000

Hmm.. I think one could argue the mountain ranges made vancouver more compact than Denver, not necessarily the virtuousness of the towns people who put their heads together as one and decided it was the right thing to do as you appear to paint. Policies also impact. A national highway policy and anti-transit nature of our the us govt had also had an impact. There is also the boom and bust nature of denver, which is more closely matched to Calvary then to Vancouver.
So although Vancouver is a lovely city, it's no Toronto, its no New York, its no SF.. but I can't help to compare.

By: Gash 22

Gash 22 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:03:00 +0000

This looks great! The buildings look much nicer than phase one too, I hope the renderings reflect what actually gets built.

By: Allen

Allen — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:52:00 +0000

I hope people in Denver NEVER accept a median housing price of over $500,000!!!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 21:13:00 +0000

This looks great! I'm temporarily living in Vancouver, BC. They've had "density" at the forefront of local governmental planning for 30 years, and Mayor Sam Sullivan is still using the "ecodensity" phrase. Along many of their SkyTrain stations there will be high-density housing, and within a few blocks of a dozen or so of the stations you'll find perhaps 10 to 15 high-rise condos, each from 15 to 30 stories. And they aren't just in Vancouver, but in the suburbs of Burnaby, Surrey and new Westminster. All this in a city of 650,000 and a metro population the same as Denver-Bldr.-Castle Rock– 2.5 million or so– and also full of sprawl in 2 directions, south and east. Yes, of course I can't help but compare. And yes, I know Denver and Vancouver have developed differently from the beginning and their histories are different. I think it will take time for Denverites in great measure to accept, become accustomed to and then support very dense housing in a big way. I don't think it will be in 40 years, given the attitude. Otherwise, we'd have much more and much larger residential structures near Denver's stations.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:41:00 +0000

Streetcars are becoming all the rage in many different cities around the country. Require less investment and infrastructure than LRT, but are "sexier" than regular buses. Streetcars have been mentioned as a future transit mode for Colfax. So what's old is new again….