Today we are presenting a video of the construction technologies Mortenson is using out in the field to provide an efficient and seamless information environment for their projects. This is an exciting “digital plan room” technology that Mortenson has recently developed and is using at the new Ralph Carr Judicial Center and elsewhere around the country. Thank you Brett Sisco and David Stone of Mortenson for demonstrating these cool construction technologies to DenverInfill and letting us record it for the blog.
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Podcasts!
Over at DenverUrbanism, we recently launched a collaboration with UrbanDesignPodcast.com, a great podcast run by local urban designer Arina Habich. Once a week or so, Arina features a different podcast about planning, design, and other urban issues in Denver and other locations. DenverUrbanism will be coordinating with UrbanDesignPodcast.com once a quarter to focus on a timely Denver urbanism topic. Our first podcast collaboration with UrbanDesignPodcast was about the Union Station project and featured an interview with Anne Hayes from Union Station Advocates and Bill Mosher from the Denver Union Station Project Authority. You can listen to it here or download it from iTunes here (look for date March 4, 2011). Our next podcast will focus on the 14th Street Initiative and will be uploaded in early June.
Speaking of podcasts, I had the opportunity to be the guest on the Denver Diatribe podcast back in January. The Denver Diatribe, according to producers Joel Warner, Jared Jacang Maher and John Dicker, is a weekly podcast about “culture, politics and stuff as it pertains to Denver, Colorado and its environs. The show was created in the summer of 2010 to fill a void in the local media landscape between hyper-partisan political talk on commercial radio and the agonizing stodginess of public radio.”
For my first (and, hopefully, not last) appearance on the Denver Diatribe, we talked about fun stuff like the Denver mayoral race, FasTracks, and that proposed Walmart in Lakeside. To listen to that particular podcast, click here.
Westword “Best of Denver” 2011
Every year, I always look forward to reading the “Best of Denver” issue of Westword. It’s an annual opportunity to celebrate the interesting facets of life in Denver and engage in a serious-but-not-too-serious way of spreading some mutual love for our favorite city. So, I’m particularly excited and honored that DenverInfill has just won its second Best of Denver award—this time for our Denver Union Station tours. Back in 2007, DenverInfill won its first “Best of Denver” award for just… existing. This time, we won because we love to walk and talk (at the same time!) about something we’re rather passionate about: Denver Union Station.
If you haven’t joined us yet for one of our Union Station tours, that’s OK. The project won’t be complete until 2014. But time has a way of flying, so please don’t forget to squeeze us in sometime over the next couple of years. The Union Station redevelopment is a project that will forever transform the way people arrive in, perceive, and experience Denver. At some point, I hope you’ll join us on a sunny Denver Saturday morning. The tours run on the first and third Saturdays of each month at 10 AM. Check this blog on the Thursday or Friday before for confirmation that the scheduled Saturday tour will take place (holidays, weather, and other factors occasionally interrupt the schedule).
Any mention of DenverInfill’s focus on Union Station would not be complete without mentioning Rick Anstey and Union Station Advocates. Rick is our expert on Union Station construction activites and the author of 56 (and counting) Union Station project update blog posts. I’m guessing that when the whole project is finished, Rick will have around 200 posts on Union Station and will have uploaded some 5,000 construction photos to our project page at JobSiteVisitor.com, a great construction-photo-hosting website operated by my friend Brian Sweeney. Union Station Advocates is the non-profit community organization we’ve partnered with (donations from our tours go to Union Station Advocates) that is dedicated to making sure the historic station and the project’s public spaces are the best that they can be.
Thank you, Westword, for the “Best of Denver” award honor, and thank you, DenverInill readers, for your interest in making Denver better than ever!
More Construction Photos at DenverInfill
Many of you have told me that one of your favorite aspects of the DenverInfill Blog is when we feature photos of projects under construction. Given my professional and personal schedules, the time I’ve had available to take and post update photos has fluctuated over the years, and on occasions, regular DenverInfill readers have helped me out by submitting photos for me to use, such as this awesome photo by Vicki H. from Uptown.
To increase the frequency of our construction-photo-updating efforts here at DenverInfill, I’m happy to announce that we’re adding a new contributor, Ryan Dravitz, who will be focusing specifically on that task. Ryan is a bicycle-wielding urban photographer and planning student who will be making the rounds with camera in hand to help keep us up-to-date on the physical transformation of our Downtown area. Thank you, Ryan!
I’ll still be posting photos when I can (including a bunch of pictures of a Better Denver bond project I took this weekend that I’ll be posting soon over at DenverUrbanism), and Rick will continue to focus on the big Denver Union Station project. If you’ve got a great urban infill photo you’d like to share, please don’t hesitate to submit it. The 2000s boom may be over, but there’s still a fair amount of urban infill investment going on in Denver, and we’re happy to cover it!
