About a year ago, I bloggedabout how I don’t like it when a developer doesn’t put up a project sign at a construction site. Well, not only are East West Partners and the other developers working in the Central Platte Valley pretty good about putting up project signs, but now they’re taking it one step farther:
Ken, I thought about you when I walked by that sign on Friday.
EW must have someone who reads this blog and felt like taking the piss. Heh heh!
That's "cute."
No kidding.. that sign might as well say "Dear Ken" on it. That's funny..! This just shows how much influence this site can have on the surrounding area.
I LOVE IT! Marketing Signs for their Marketing Mix! Which project is this for?
Is this City House?
I believe it is for the project I blogged about a couple of days ago:
https://denverinfill.com/2008/01/new-project-at-18th-and-bassett.html
Hells yeah! funny
EW has said the next building will be in parcel 13 (on sub area D). So it could be EW's project not GID's project.
Wow, a displaced/homeless unit right next to those lofts. Thats going to twist the dagger on the value of those condos if the economy hasn't killed twisted enough. Good job city planners.
Is that for real? lol
Anon 7:50 – where did you see that this is a displaced/homeless unit? I believe this is the 2nd phase of the Manhattan apartment complex.
I believe you're all wrong. This parcel is next up for East West. This has nothing to do with the second phase of the Manhattan.
I think Anonymous of 1/14, 7:50 pm, is referring to the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless project (Renaissance Riverfront Lofts) Ken blogged about recently (1/9) near the foot of the Park Avenue viaduct, near the interchange with I-25. I can see how someone reading several blog posts at one time might get geographically confused. However, the fact that project is nowhere near this one is less important than the attitude this anonymous person has toward our fellow homeless humans.
The coalition builds multi-unit buildings in various locations around the metro area to house not the street people that so many people are irrationally afraid of, but the far larger population of working families who have, due to economic conditions and other factors, found themselves without the ability to afford Denver's high home prices and rents. The vast majority of these people are families, just scraping to get by, who would never imagine that they could afford something like the Glass House, the Manhattan, or many of the other fine projects in the downtown area.
As for the effect on the neighborhood, CCH's earlier downtown loft project (22nd & Stout) does not seem to have hurt nearby property values; many developers have built nearby since CCH finished this project several years ago.
And as for "city planners," they don't decide where CCH or any other similar provider (Catholic Charities, etc.) constructs their homes for the homeless families. These organizations have to buy the land on the open market, same as any developer; the Renaissance Riverfront Lofts will be built on land that most developers wouldn't want to touch (who, of those who can afford market rates, wants to be right on top of I-25 and Park?).
Not only all of that ^^^, but with groups like CCH buying land around the area, and not in any one single area, it has a minimal impact on the various neighborhoods and keeps ghettofication from reclaiming downtown.