A new infill project is coming to the booming W. 32nd Avenue corridor in Downtown Denver’s Highland district. The project is located near the corner of 32nd and Wyandot and will feature seven live/work townhomes. A rendering is not yet available, but here’s a link to the project’s website: www.highland7denver.com.
The project is located between the Zuni and Tejon intersections with 32nd. Both intersections were streetcar stops long ago and feature a cluster of historic commercial storefronts that have recently been renovated into new shops, pubs, and restaurants. With a little more time, both of these intersections should end up like 32nd and Lowell to their west (a/k/a Highland Square)–and we all know how trendy that neighborhood commercial district has become.
I’ll pass along more information about Highland 7 as it becomes available.
FINALLY !!! ABOUT TIME FOR GOOD TASTE AND SOFISTICATION
TO MOVE TO THE HOOD !
Gentrification is an interesting subject, but one you obviously know nothing about, if you think either this is a sophisticated project, or this is the neighborhood. Traditionally ghettoized neighborhoods such as the Highland, Jefferson Park, Ballpark, or Five Points have gone gentry for many years now. Drive around and see for yourself. There are as many smart developments as spectacular homes built by those of mass incomes in each of these “hoods”. The occasional (or rampant) homeless wanderer or burnt-out yard, certainly; (and the displacement of these people is a necessary and important conversation in city redevelopment, planning, and growth) but to think that this Highland 7 project is either ground-breaking or important is ignorant. In our market, though our market be middling, this project is townhomes with modern lines and compact massing for the middle class, nothing less or more. So what if it replaces the strip mall where Illegal immigrants once took Alcoholics Anonymous? Another like it, on the same intersection but south, lies where a historic twin home and single family home were bulldozed. Not spectacular architecture, either one, but part of a fabric of history, where strip malls, empty lots, and fifties ranchers abound. Scrape-offs are a modern reality, but tour these “hoods” and witness the sophistication of a Victorian or Craftsman restored to life after years of rental/neglect. Modernization is about choices, choosing what of the neglected to keep, and respect mandates not always choosing the convenient, easy, or cheap. We can have this conversation, but a call to “sofistication” at every hole in the ground won’t get us far.
Sooo….elsewhere in the neighborhood…
Is there any information about 3400 Osage floating around out there? The former home of Little Pepina's has been getting something done on the inside, but we can't tell what exactly.
And, there's a very contemporary luxury duplex going up on the 3500 block that is pretty drastic…something to check out, anyway.
This area of Highland has so much potential. At one time, i thought about buying a home in this area, but it didn't pan it. It's really cool to see this project take up another vacant lot!
i can't find any other way to contact you guys, so i thought i'd point you to a post on my blog:
Compromises threaten Denver Civic Center and Union Station
cam, i'm so glad that you're learning basic geography terms such as gentrification in your lower division human geographies course. We're so impressed in the way that you subtly took the opportunity to woo us with your knowledge when someone used the term hood. I would have never guessed that he was referring to the ghetto characteristics of this particular area until you wrote your retaliative paragraph. Thank God for cam, thank cam for setting everyone straight!
Nice words Cam, you must think you're so clever, don't you? whether you spent a minute or two hours fishing for pretty words in really meaniless to most people in MY Neighborhood.
This is not a breakground Project by no means, there are equally sites going on all over the Highlands. I didnt mean "the hood" in a derogatory
way, I have lived here long enough to have experienced how bad the Highlands used to be. Now,it is a hot commodity. I just hate to see Builders
come here, not just in the Highlands, but everywhere in Denver with mediocre projects,just for the money and then, they go away leaving behind
with some pathetic cardboard looking building.
Oh yeah, let's not forget your stupid comments: Gentrification !! please…
You took my comment out way out of context, it has nothing to do with Illegal Immigrants going to Alcoholic Anonymous or ghettorized
fellow Neighbors. You added all this negativity to a simple two lines comment, which is really sad!!!
100 more ft. on the tabor two building and we will have a "NEW TALLEST" in Denver!
Except that they can't add 100 feet to Tabor II, because the foundation won't support it. Nor is it certain that the revised T2 will even be built. Let's keep in mind ladies 'n gents, this is Denver.
Good to see the Highlands continue it's redevelopment stage. Hopefully this project has some flare and a long term presence.