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Last Sunday veteran city-watcher and freelance Denver Post columnist Susan Barnes-Gelt weighed in on what she (and I) have called the “brouhaha” at 9th and Colorado. After detailing some site history Barnes-Gelt identifies three options for moving forward. One of these […]
“The world’s largest retailer has an image problem.” So begins the latest, front page Denver Post story about the Walmart brouhaha at 9th and Colorado. I’m afraid it’s not only Walmart that has an image problem if the quality and tone of […]
We’ve been writing a lot about 9th and Colorado lately. Consequently, the Denver website This Could Be Interesting suggests that We Might Be Obsessed. The number of 9th and Colorado posts at Intercultural Urbanism currently amounts to just under 20% of the total. […]
Just this morning I discovered a nice opinion piece in The Denver Business Journal about the 9th and Colorado Walmart debate. It’s by Brad Segal, president of Progressive Urban Management Associates in Denver. The piece is a breath of fresh air to […]
Yesterday’s Denver Post and the previous day’s New York Times contained stories relevant to the ongoing debate about how to develop 9th and Colorado. The Post offered a concise summary of where things stand on the eve of next week’s Denver […]
Citizen opposition to developer plans for a Walmart store at 9th and Colorado in Denver is galvanizing, as evidenced by the appearance of a WordPress website and Facebook page. The major concerns continue to be Walmart’s alleged misfit with the “spirit” […]
There’s been some big news and some big controversy since last reporting on this very interesting Denver infill project (for the whole series of reports and opinions go here). First, the developer Jeff Fuqua broke away from Sembler and started […]
Yesterday’s Atlantic Wire listed MIT Urban Planner Eran Ben-Joseph’s column in The New York Times called “When a Parking Lot is so Much More” as a top Monday read. The essence of Ben-Joseph’s argument: The ubiquity of parking lots has…led […]
This series of posts has been chronicling the development of the old University of Colorado Health Sciences Center site at 9th and Colorado, a relatively small (28 acre) site that’s being developed as a mixed use urban neighborhood. Attending the […]
The first 2012 meeting of the Colorado Boulevard Healthcare District Board on January 5 was dedicated to preliminary discussion of the design guidelines for the site. There was an informative presentation by the consulting architect (SEM) and a senior city […]
The Colorado Boulevard Healthcare District (CBHD) Board’s final meeting of 2011, on December 4, was dedicated to a review of the site’s conceptual plan and a new presentation on the residential component. Material presented at the last couple of meetings […]
At its meeting on November 10th the Colorado Boulevard Healthcare District (CBHD) Board gave its blessing to Sembler Company’s latest conceptual plan for developing the infill site at 9th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard. Some details were reported here, with a […]