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Decatur St & Holden Pl, #Denver 80204
5-story affordable housing would replace an early childhood center in Sun Valley. 80 homes (260 beds, all 3- and 4-bedrooms) w/ 64 veh & 40 bike parking spots. Quite a simple, but stylish, building to add to the growing neighborhood
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
New from #DenverUrbanism in 2026—almost all of the mid- to high-rise buildings in Capitol Hill would be illegal to build or re-develop today, a major insult to residents of Denver's storied urban center. Protect our heritage, upzone Cap Hill! Find out more
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BIG show of support today for the West Wash Park community + pedestrian dignity from Denver City Council. Give this a read and then weigh in by emailing Denver's Dept of Transportation and Infrastructure that you support the original road diet
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After writing about Uptown, I got to cross E Colfax off my list, a corridor-based roundup that I'd been wanting to do for some time. Lots of great photos of construction right at BRT stops, and I had a blast uncovering what might be a small boom on Lafayette Street
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Hello Bluesky! Forgot my password for a bit, some new posts on DenverInfill and Urbanism that I want to share. W/ your eyes you can see several cranes and some buildings finished/finishing in Uptown. So read about it, and look forward to new groundbreaking soon!
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this is so dope! that parking lot has been a hole in the neighborhood for far too long.
5th Ave b/w Acoma & Bannock St, #Denver 80204
142 affordable homes (for rent & purchase) replace a surface parking lot by Denver Health in Baker. 2 buildings, 1 @ 6 stories and 1 @ 7 stories. 69 veh & 97 bike parking spots. Adds PBL/bus island to Bannock. Beautiful design by local fave, Meridian 105
Today on the DenverUrbanism Podcast. Why do we like debt so much in Denver, and why are James and I so out of touch with the very happy electorate that just votes yes on everything? Hard hitting questions.
And yeah, 2A and Broncos talk
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![Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicp2ka5asjgkmgfdfj33vnjb5bbvk3vnyao6ju5kipxcdc23pqasm@jpeg)
Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.
Continents
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Denver’s transit system, especially busses, delivers less service per capita in 2025 than in 2004. What gives? How do we create a step change for transit in the region? Listen to our interview with Jill Locantore of the Denver Streets Partnership here!
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Grant St b/w 17th and 18th Aves, #Denver 80203:
7-story apartment building to replace single-story bank and small plaza in Denver's CBD. 260 homes (301 beds) with 213 vehicle and 130 bike parking. Just began construction, and the tower crane is being assembled today!
Good that you engaged with him, as reminding him that his neighbors do care about making the city safer for everyone outside of a car is good for him to hear
Interested in the redevelopment of the parking lots around Ball Arena? Wanna see more than just the bridge? Check out DenverInfill’s latest coverage here! denverinfill.com/2025/09/ball...
Underground bridge to the Capitol
Spirit Halloween Flagship location
Denver, what goes on here? (Wrong answers only)
Lots of differences in education culture/system that people don’t realize.
Contrary to the US, with many small selective private universities like Harvard, all of Canada’s notable universities are large and public.
The University of Toronto has more undergrads than the entire Ivy League.
Back in Denver after a busy news week! Happy to go to bat for this now—if any public money will end up supporting this project, tax-increment financing is the exact right tool for this exact situation! It’s going to get obscured by the media frenzy around anything Broncos but TIF would make sense
Logan St b/w 7th and 8th Ave, #Denver 80203
10-ish story apartment building would add density to a major site by the Governor's Mansion & Trader Joes. 110 homes (160 beds) w/ 113 veh & 46 bike parking spots. Within steps of a useful bus stop and a major bikeway, great project!
If you really want to preserve historic buildings, you should advocate *more* height and density when vacant lots are being developed into housing.
Every unit built there is less demand pressure to demolish and redevelop old buildings.
Cherokee & 11th Ave, #Denver 80204
303 homes in a 23-story building with a restored Cherokee Row storefront and ~5500 sq ft of retail to remain along 11th Avenue. 187 veh + 167 bike parking spots. A massive project for the Golden Triangle near-ish to two grocery stores and Sunken Gardens Park.
I'm getting real NIMBY vibes from your replies this week and I don't appreciate the disgust you are showering on homes that we need in existing dense places to fix the housing crisis. Rooting against new homes because they don't correspond with your preferences is NIMBY behavior, not progressive
The idea that bike lanes cause gentrification is funny because it suggests that they’re a desirable amenity that people will pay a lot of money to live near.
Maybe build bike lanes in more places so they’re not as rare?
(Also build more housing!)
How much affordable TOD has San Diego seen adjacent to their light rail system? Generally, Denver builds a lot more housing per capita than San Diego, though until recently it was a lower proportion of income-restricted housing than it was market rate
Could you say more, John, on what particularly causes the unsafe conditions? Is it turning motions of vehicles? Fumes? Conflicts between pedestrians and vehicles? Potential for battery fires in electric cars? What exactly is your concern here?
Broadway b/w 9th and 10th Aves, #Denver 80204
552 homes in a 24-story tower w/ ~10,000 sq ft of ground floor retail come to a major transit corridor. 656 veh & 309 bike parking spots. AMLI doubles down on the Golden Triangle w/ 2nd block-long apartment building in as many blocks
Broadway b/w 8th and 9th Avenues, #Denver 80204
372 homes in a 16-story apartment building along a major transit corridor, already under construction, delivering in 2026. >10,000 sq ft of ground-floor retail with new trees and landscaping. 494 veh & 223 bike parking spots, project with a big impact!
Lincoln & 8th Ave, #Denver 80203
298 homes in an 18-story apartment building on a major transit corridor w/n walking distance to TJ’s grocery store. 290 veh & 186 bike parking spots, w/ 14 shared bikes for residents. Already under construction, a consequential addition to the Golden Triangle!
