Ten months ago, we announced a new project going up on the corner of 8th Avenue and Broadway, taking up a large L-shaped parking lot and single-story 7-11. Since then, the project has broken ground, and the parking lot is completely gone with a hole in the ground.
The seven-story building has started to break street level, and a tower crane is now on site. Because of the building height, we should expect this to be a concrete structure. Here are some pictures of the site, right before the rain came! The picture on the left is from 8th Avenue and Lincoln, the right from Broadway between 8th and 9th Avenue.
The 8th and Broadway project will contain 200 rental units with 240 parking spaces, and 4,420 square feet of ground floor retail. What a huge improvement to this intersection!
Hi,this is not a reply to this posting, but is more of a reply to an old photo that you posted some time ago. Awhile back, you agreed with me that perhaps the boundary of the DDAP in North Capital Hill should be moved eastward to at least Pennsylvania. But I also strongly feel that the northeastern boundary of the DDAP’s Ballpark District should be moved outward to 28th Street, so as to encompass the entire Ballpark Historic District. When I view up close the top of your 1973 photo of Auraria, it is amazing how richly infilled and urban the Ballpark area was, and how much of an extension or gradation it was from the lower downtown. I am fairly sure that in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s that the lower downtown and the area extending outward between the Larimer/Lawrence alley and Blake’s backside were really one more or less homogenous neighborhood out to at least 28th street. It was a large and fascinating gritty area sometimes referred to as NoDo and included the better part of the notorious skid row of old Larimer Street. Out of respect for this historic continuity, I feel that the Ballpark district of the DDAP should be extended to 28th Street – just past the Sacred Heart Church on Larimer. To include this area would be no more of a geographic stretch than it is to include the southern Golden Triangle in the DDAP. I don’t know if I am the only person to feel this way, but your photo really supports my feelings.
Sincerely,
Mark W
Hi, Mark. I respectfully disagree. The neighborhood you wish to ‘annex’ has a very distinct personality that deserves to grow independently from what’s considered ‘Ballpark.’ It’s younger, full of art and music, and the businesses are taking greater (and more fulfilling) entrepreneurial risks. The same people who brought this neighborhood up by the bootstraps the past ten years deserve the opportunity to shape its future, not get overrun by the big money spilling over from downtown.