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Originally Posted by DenvertoLA
I' actually work on the near the promenade and it gets the job done very well. The city of SM has built more 7 parking structures with at least 8 stories in height to support the masses coming to it. If Denver went this route I think they would need to do the same, just not in as grand of a scale.
Santa Monica is not like Boulder, Venice is more like Boulder. (right next door) Pearl street is similar to 3rd street if that's what you are getting at.
Since the buses are gone people really explore the whole promenade. Valley folks make a day of it and people commonly spend 6-8 hours there.
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Lucky you. Sounds like a real cool area.
The challenge for Denver is to make 16th street more appealing, more of a shopping (entertainment) destination. I can visualize potential even as I see obstacles.
Perhaps as
Cirrus unwittingly suggests, cutting the Mall into three block stretches would help.
With respect to the buses I'm agnostic. Perhaps a 15th/16th Street couplet (as BG918 calls it) is a good idea. That would put (shuttle) bus service along 15th/16th and 18th/19th streets, although currently the latter only runs six hours a day. The advantage of adding 15th street is that it brings riders, including convention goers one block closer to many hotel rooms and the Convention Center. There's often convention traffic on weekends also.