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Originally Posted by denconyny
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I think that the area along Broadway from about 18th Avenue going north is awful. Hopefully, Skyhouse will be built and start something along this immensity of surface parking lot hell of Broadway. One Lincoln Park looks so lonely.......
Although my circles probably represent about 11 or so blocks (the lowest big circle is could represent 5 blocks there by itself), this is the area that I would tackle. One could even go up north a few more blocks between 21st and 24th and have at least another dozen or so blocks to work on, and probably more than a couple of dozen going another block both east and west of Broadway.
I feel like I'm  in surface parking lots driving along that section of Broadway, an especially important part of this city where the neighborhoods of upper DT, central DT, CapHill, AS and ••••• all merge.........
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My five blocks would have to be right in that area also. At one point during my youth, back before I started soaking up information on websites such as this one and I was particularly naive, I just assumed that once a light rail station is built in any urban, downtown-ish area, tons of highrise TOD will automatically spring up all around it. I would have assumed that if I were to travel in time to 2014 and pay a visit to Welton and 21st, I'd find at least a half-dozen One Lincoln Park's surrounding me. Considering Denver’s lack of so-called “last mile” transit, one would think that stretch of Welton would be a no-brainer for developers.
Well, I was recently scouring craigslist for apartments in Denver and hoping to find a Sneaky Joe spot near a light rail stop, because I’m hoping to at least try to get by without a car and still feel connected to the rest of the world via DIA etc. (I own a small e-commerce business that I can locate just about anywhere, so as long as I’m near transit, I can place my business anywhere along a convenient transit line and ensure an easy commute for myself.) Well, I was using craigslist’s map mode to scroll along the light rail lines and click on all the nearby bubbles. At first I was mainly focusing on Baker (and not having much success) but then I thought, ‘hey what about Welton? … except, you know… sort of the south end of it so I don’t have to be in Five Points.’
Yeah yeah I know. Supposedly Five Points is all gentrified and nice now, but I guess I’m an ethnocentric asshole that still can’t get past the stereotype of Five Points being the old, gang-violence plagued, “worst neighborhood in Denver”. Plus I’d rather not be an unwelcome “gentrifier.” (I recently realized this after spending some time in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn and being told on multiple occasions that my white ass needed to get back to Williamsburg where it apparently belonged.)
Anyway, when I zoomed in on the 21st and Welton area, I was surprised to find hardly any bubbles to click on until I remembered, ‘Oh yeah, that’s right. There’s nothing there but a sea of parking. Weird!’
Really, it makes no sense. Considering its downtown location and proximity to mass-transit, that area should be booming. If I had a billion dollars to spare, I would make it boom.