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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 months

Meet up this week! Golden Triangle Run Club, 5K to Confluence Park and back

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Some personal news, my partner and I just bought a lil home in City Park West. Neither of us make big money, but after saving for the entire length of our relationship, we made an offer and closed Thursday. Will be a bit quiet on posting for the next week. 🎉🙏🪅🏡🚲🚲🦮

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

7 months

This is going to be incredible

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

9 months

Places in Denver I’d like to see this kind of small retail with homes above: Florida and Monaco, Exposition and Franklin, 7th and Knox, 32nd and Wolff, 9th and Steele… where would you want to see new mixed-use corners in Denver?

Michael Schwartz 🟡

@michlschwrtz

2 years

why is this not allowed

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 month

Colorado BRT must include protected bike lanes, taming traffic and offering new streetscape amenities; this is the way.

Nathaniel Minor

@nbminor

1 month

If I'm reading this right, Denver is now proposing protected bike lanes some of the city's busiest arterial streets: - Colorado Blvd - Speer - S Broadway - W Evans - Monaco - Quebec - 17th/18th - 13th/14th - York/Josephine Take a look at the map here:

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Don't mind me. Just a regular Friday night out here thinking about a gondola connecting Highland and Union Station.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

A major, major mistake. Affordable housing should be the priority

Denver Westword

@denverwestword

1 year

First Baptist Church of Denver wants to turn its parking lot into a twelve-story apartment building, but landmark officials object to the design.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

3 months

If we can close one lane of Broadway for one block solely for the construction of a new building, can’t we just decide to give and protect a lane for cyclists, scooter-riders, and other mobility devices? Use concrete barriers, do it fast. Does it have to be so complicated?

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

16th Ave and Newton St (& 17th & Meade), #Denver 80204 - A 🧵 on 151 affordable apartments, a 16-story apartment tower, parking garage, multimodal path, and community-serving nonprofit space making its way through permitting. This complex will transform a sleepy corner by Sloans

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

4 months

Leven Deli will be opening a new location at 15th and California Streets in the heart of Downtown. As a big fan of Leven, I wanted to snoop and see their massive(!) new space. ~300 seats, w/ mezzanine and outdoor dining. Table service instead of counter service. Big for Downtown!

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

7 months

#TOD at 42nd and Fox St, #Denver 80216 12-story apartment tower in an 8-story zone, using EHA to exceed height limits. 270 homes, all affordable. 304 bedrooms. Just 26 veh parking vs 217 bike parking. Within steps of 41st and Fox Station, exemplary! (A project I worried was dead)

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 months

Wow! Massively improved intersection for cyclists and pedestrians at W 13th Ave and Decatur Street. Didn’t expect this

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Winona and Colfax, #Denver 80204 - 5-story apartment building w/ 6.6k ground-floor retail. 88 units, 100 beds. 46 veh parking. Literally at a bus stop, the 16, comes every 10-15 minutes. Would replace two condemned buildings and a vacant lot.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

11 months

In case there was any doubt, @jlocantore is a superhero. What a joyful read this morning! Closing the cloverleaf remains a huge priority for returning Denver’s westside to the PEOPLE.

What if the massive Colfax-Federal super-intersection was totally transformed?

Let's take a walk through the part of Denver that used to be the towns of Colfax and Brooklyn, where change is once again afoot.

denverite.com

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

6 months

I hate the intersection of Colfax, Franklin, and Park Avenue. People are always trying to take a right on red from eastbound Colfax to northbound Park Avenue. I’m not joking when I’m crossing with a pedestrian walk signal! Aggressive interventions are needed, people are at risk!

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

8 months

Personal goal/project for 2024, visiting every City of Denver park... with some exceptions. Follow along with this thread, or check periodically on Denver Urbanism for coverage and reactions to parks I've never been to before.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 month

While awaiting finer-grained Colfax BRT 100% design, a 🧵 of exciting (or benign) changes to E Colfax Avenue in detail, courtesy of 90% design docs. Think sidewalk width, bike improvements, new trees, lights, and parking changes More information here:

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

7 months

PROPOSED 17th St & Glenarm, #Denver 80202 Adaptive re-use of 16-story office tower ➡️ 210 homes, all affordable. 0 car parking. Ground-floor retail. Mostly studios, some 1-to-3 beds. Looks like they plan to remove an elevator core, but no proposed change to exterior, really

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Sheridan and 10th Ave, #Lakewood 80214 - existing blighted strip mall would be redeveloped into mixed-use apartments. 6-stories, 364 apts, 5k sq ft of retail. Not sure on parking, but developed by a firm with a reputation for TOD work.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

PROPOSED: Champa & 26th St, #Denver 80205 - 5 rowhomes to replace a vacant lot. Zone allows 2.5 stories; permit lists office as secondary use...? 5 veh parking proposed. I'd guess this'll looks like architect's work down the street, neo-Italianate 2500 Arapahoe St.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 months

A great show tonight at Civic Center, very well organized and kid-friendly event—you should’ve seen Blucifer and Blue Bear!

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Colfax, Downing, and Corona, #Denver 80218: 8-story mixed-use building replaces old Smiley's laundromat. 210 new homes w/ 229 beds, 6.6k sq ft retail along Colfax. 242 vehicle & 122 bike parking. Extravagant garage, with new private drive south of the building connecting to alley

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

11 months

We need the protected bike lane down Broadway! Like, yesterday!

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

7 months

Oh boy! It's here! Live tweeting the details as I read them, below. If you want to read the text of the bill as introduced, you can check it out here:

Matt Frommer

@MattFrommer

7 months

Colorado's ADU bill is here! HB1152 gives homeowners the right to build an ADU aka granny flat/backyard cottage/garage apartment on their property, increasing the supply of low-cost, efficient housing & adding gentle density near jobs & transit– a Win-Win for housing & climate🏘️

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

3 months

Stout Street b/w 22nd and Park Ave, #Denver 80205 Three towers (2 @ 26 floors, 1 @ 22) rise out of a two-story podium. 897 homes, 1027 bedrooms. 569 veh and 454 bike parking. 4 gf retail opportunities. This is a gorgeous and important project, well-placed for success

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Just utterly giddy, cannot believe what a win this bill would be for the next generation of Coloradan homeowners, business owners, transit users/operators, and our air quality. 25% through reading the bill now and I cannot find a miss by @coloradodems

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

6 months

Thursday / Today. I almost like it better on a cloudy day.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

7 months

Broadway and 4th Ave, #Denver 80203 65 homes in a 5-story mixed-use building, replacing drive-thru Dunkin Donuts along high-comfort bikeway and frequent bus line. Parking: 65 veh | 16 bike. 5k sq ft ground-floor retail space. Removes a curb cut which interrupted pedestrian realm.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Hot take, Sloans Lake is a better park for running than Wash Park.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Been really enjoying this camera recently. Brought it (and my dad) to the Rockies game last night. #BuildupDenver

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

6 months

15 bags of trash removed from Dry Gulch. A tiny fraction of the trash in the park. Always looking for more helping hands, Tuesdays at 5:30 at 12th Ave and Wolff St

Teej

@teejcodes

6 months

GGG Gulch Garbage Grabbers first clean up of the year!

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

10 months

This is big news, if you didn’t already know. One of our at-large councilwomen is at work rezoning all homes in Denver to allow for ADUs, including suburban Denver

Flor Alvidrez

@FlorForDenver

10 months

@hahnn12 @BuildUpDenver CW Parady is working on citywide sorry I misspelled her name.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

Opinion: not a great look that near the end of @CityCastDenver interview with Sen. Hansen, when asked “How would you make Denver less car-centric?” He goes back to mentioning visible homelessness, encampments, and drugs w/ regard to the most-used bus in town

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

4 months

(How to start a 🧵 this expansive?) Look. Colorado Dems have unleashed massive potential for sustainable housing development in Colorado this session (which just adjourned this evening). Their complementary reforms make blurbs on any one bill incomplete... so let's dive DEEP

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

4 months

Found some information on how Larimer Square might look in the next few months, if the city approves their urban design proposal. Larimer is on the pathway to permanent street closure, but it requires a lot more paperwork to get there!

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

I personally am in favor of a new park in NE Park Hill, in favor of affordable housing, in favor of new bikeways and more people using the A line. I want new sidewalks on the E side of CO Blvd, and see the need for property tax relief for working folks. I’m voting “Yes,” on 2O.

YES on 2O

@parksandhomes

2 years

What do you guys think of our new yard sign design?🤔 #YesOn2O

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

6 months

Just absolutely furious about today. The resulting burnt-up blight on Colfax & death of a great project belongs squarely at the feet of permitting delays in Denver. Devs have been slow-walked to final approval for TWO YEARS, now they go back to the drawing board? Nope, they walk

Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

6 months

Practically speaking, that’s the death of a good project…

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

7 months

Brighton Blvd & 41st Ave, #Denver 80216 2, 12-story towers. 370 homes, 192-key hotel with gf retail and arts facilities. Private open space between the two towers that front Wynkoop and Brighton. One portion of the redevelopment. Parking: 110 veh | 90 bike

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

PROPOSED: 8th Ave and Inca St, #Denver 80204 - 5-story, 100% affordable, mixed-use apt building. 56 studios, 7 parking. This comes after a previous 16-unit proposal, also five stories. Suspect EHA has leveled the playing field for an affordable development to pencil out.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

W Colfax and Vrain, #Denver 80204 - Breaking ground soon, a 5-story apartment building replaces a parking lot within a ten-minute walk of the light rail and by the 16 bus line. Ground-floor retail. 66 homes, 20 veh parking. Screenshot the water plans, can't see other plans!

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Just hit 2000 miles on this e-bike, about 1000 miles more than I would’ve biked without it, I’m sure. I see friends after work more often, go to further places on my day off, take longer, more enjoyable rides than I ever did before. Thanks @DenverCASR for this incredible program!

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

Triangle of Colfax, 14th St, and Court, Denver 80202 - a 297-room, 14-story hotel. Cafe and restaurant on the street. Replaces a child-care center and Denver Fire Dept office. Will totally transform a narrow slice of the view from DAM and GT #BuildupDenver

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

25 days

PROPOSED Civic Center Park, Greek Theater. An artful proposal for a new stage and theater configuration, minimizing any facade/material changes to historic structure. Sound equipment, backdrops, would be rented. New, minimal scaffolding & flipped seating allows for new programs!

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

10 months

16th Avenue and Pearl St, #Denver 80203 5 stories along 16th, 8 stories along Pearl, 162 homes, 162 veh parking with 3 levels of underground parking. 87 bike parking spots, literally 6 blocks from downtown along a protected bike lane. Residential entries w/ stoops along Pearl St

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

3 months

16th St Mall and Broadway, #Denver 80202 Adaptive reuse of the 14-story Petroleum Building from office to residential. GF commercial stays. 177 homes (263 beds) w/ 0 veh & 33 bike parking. Not surprising, as this is the most transit rich neighborhood in Colorado. 3-bedroom homes!

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Some thoughts. I leave deeply moved, shocked into remembering the shared humanity of people living through the worst circumstances possible by a leader who’s not looking away from the hard stuff, who’s staked his entire career on getting people out of those conditions

Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Headed to a community meeting with CM Chris Hinds and Mayor Mike Johnston, this one about the proposed micro-communities in the Golden Triangle. Lotta folks here at the Evans School! Will try to tweet out the highlights

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

6 months

I’ll say specifically Lime is currently in breach of contract with the city! They agreed for charge no more than $1 for 30-min rides in opportunity areas around town, and now they’re raking it in while the city is distracted. Enforce the contract!

Allen Cowgill

@AllenCowgill

6 months

A younger colleague of mine told me that it’s often cheaper for him to take an Uber/Lyft car than a Lime/Lyft scooter/ebike. I checked this morning & it costs $8.30 to go 2 miles to downtown on a Lyft ebike. Same trip costs $7.80 to be picked up by a Lyft driver.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

3 years

Colfax and Osceola, Denver 80204 - 3 story, 33 micro-unit development replacing a used car lot. 8 parking spaces #yimbyDenver #buildupDenver

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

PROPOSED: Lowell Blvd and Colfax, #Denver 80204 - 3-story apartment building would replace a surface parking lot. 30 homes, 0 vehicle parking. 100% affordable. By my favorite architecture firm in town, Meridian 105. Owned by Lake Steam Baths across the street

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

Find myself thinking tonight how important state-wide land use reform is to addressing the housing shortage. Denver is genuinely trying to build! City Council, city agencies, all are trying to move forward housing projects, w/ neighboring cities nearby saying "1% growth only!"

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

Tennyson St and 41st Ave, #Denver 80212 - Retail building by Cesar Chavez park is being reno'd and reused w/ addition of a rooftop retail space. Sweetgreen is one of the three GF tenants, more to come on the rest of the tenants. First comes reno, rooftop addition to be approved.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

New private pickle-ball facility proposed in the middle of the Broadway and Alameda redevelopment. Would cannibalize some of the parking lot in order to provide half indoor/half outdoor courts.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

PROPOSED: 9th and Navajo, #Denver 80204 - @Denver_Housing delivers for Denver with 7-story affordable complex. 187 homes, 85 veh parking, at least half the homes for unhoused folks; the ground floor will feature a clinic run by Denver Indian Health and Family Services.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

11 months

#TOD Sheridan Blvd and 14th Ave, #Denver 80204: 7-story, 100% affordable apts to exceed the 5-story zoning, providing more homes than neighboring apts. 120 homes (all studios and 1-beds). 39 vehicle and 30 bike parking. 0 vehicle parking required, 5 min walk from Sheridan LR

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

Xavier and W Colfax, #Denver 80204 - 5-story temporary shelter (up to 30 days) for homeless families to replace existing 2-story motel for same purpose. 60 new units, 27 veh parking underground. Phase one of VOA's redevelopment of the Aristocrat Motor Hotel on W Colfax

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

. @DenverInfill Spent last night on the roof of the Evans school in Golden Triangle. In just this one angle off the top, there are 5 projects in progress/proposed, and a 6th possible dev by Adelaide Real Estate who might try again #BuildupDenver

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

Well known fact that working families don’t need places to live!

Colorado Working Families Party 🐺

@COWorkingFam

2 years

Last up for today: we enthusiastically ask for your NO vote on Denver Referred Question 2O. (/end)

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

3 months

PROPOSED Lincoln and 1st, #Denver 80203 7-story apts (in a 5-story zone) would replace 45 veh surface parking lot and small retail. 164 homes, 193 beds, b/w 16-24 of them income-restricted. 188 veh parking. 2 gf retail spaces, including a re-incarnation of Parlor Donuts?

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

11 months

PROPOSED: #TOD at Ulster St and Smith Rd, #Denver 80207 4 towers (2 @ 14 stories, 2 @ 10 stories) could phase out ~6 acres of RTD-owned surface parking. >1000 affordable homes, along w/ new park space, aff'd childcare, & gf retail. >500 veh and bike parking. Unsolicited proposal

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

8 months

17th and Pennsylvania, #Denver 80203 7 stories, with ground-floor retail. 123 homes, 31 veh, 68 bike parking spots. Replaces a surface parking lot in uptown. All studio/1-beds, max unit size of 549 sq ft. Attractive building, w/ new trees on Penn and outdoor dining at the corner

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

7 months

Welton St and 29th St, #Denver 80205 #TOD , 6-stories. 4k sq ft of ground-floor retail. Directly across the street from L line on Welton. 62 affordable condos. Parking: 26 veh | 60 bike. Exemplary project, replaces a surface parking lot within 1 mile of downtown

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

Acoma St and 2nd Ave, #Denver 80204 - 5 rowhomes replace a vacant parking lot within steps of S Broadway. 2.5 stories. Some conflicts here b/w the simple permit look and a draft SDP, but I believe them to be around 1400 sq ft each, w/ 1 garage parking space each.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

Totally surprised (and pleased) to see highway lids endorsed as something to study and potentially implement, especially along I-25 by Wash Park, the Highlands, and 6th Ave by Villa Park and Barnum

Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

They endorse looking to add lids to several urban highways/arterials in Denver!

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@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Disappointing in the extreme. Coloradans shouldn’t have to beg for action on the #1 problem facing this state: the cost of housing, and a general shortage of housing in the places where people need to live

Andrew Kenney

@AndyKnny

1 year

Gov. Jared Polis suffered one of the biggest political defeats of his tenure as Democrats failed to coalesce around an upzoning and land use bill.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

9 months

If we implemented minimum lot size reform statewide in CO, we'd see a lot more homes built in existing neighborhoods without demolishing the current home.

M. Nolan Gray

@mnolangray

9 months

3. Legalize multifamily in commercial zones. Montana did this. Florida passed a good bill. 4. Rightsize minimum lot sizes to 1,200 sqft statewide. A half-dozen bills on this introduced this year. 5. Legalize duplexes/fourplexes in all neighborhoods. Look to Washington or Oregon.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

9 days

Cherry Creek/Speer Blvd vision, finally! This digs deep into ecology, mode shift, job/housing growth, and quality of life improvements for a huge group of people. And with a price tag of only half a billion dollars, less than a new highway interchange!

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Wow. No new parking required for ANY new missing middle housing (townhomes, cottage clusters, du/triplexes) to be built in CO, in "Tier 1" municipalities or resort towns...

Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Assuming Denver doesn't jettison DZC, here are the relevant min req for Missing Middle in the bill

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Some friends asked me to talk buildings this Sat, starting by the Colfax and Elati bus stop. We’ll walk and talk about what’s been built, being built, & what’s proposed in the Golden Triangle (plus a sliver N of Colfax). There’s a lot to cover. If you’re interested, come along!

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

This is my interest in parts of Denver like Sun Valley, 41st and Fox, and the Evans Station area; met a woman last night who never used transit till she moved to Denver, lives right by the Yale Station and now uses LR all the time. Building new homes by transit has an effect!

Matt Frommer

@MattFrommer

2 years

Public transit is a critical strategy for reducing vehicle trips & air pollution, but unleashing its full climate potential requires Transit-Oriented Development (TOD). When it comes to TOD, building the “T” without the “D” leaves 80 % of the GHG savings on the table. 7/

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@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Photos of the finished project, quite attractive IMO

Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

3 years

Tennyson St and 7th Ave, Denver 80204 - 4 unit row homes replacing one SU. This is the type of development the West Side sees constantly. Linked is the developer's website, though for a development 3 1/2 blocks up the street with more units

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@BuildUpDenver

1 month

Skyline Park, between 16th & 17th Streets Plan at 45% design, with total redo of park. Calls for 3/4 of current trees to stay, along with Halprin fountain. But new interactive water feature, food truck pads, new concession stand for food and drink, and stage w/ canopy? Nice!

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@BuildUpDenver

3 years

Disappointed that I'll be missing this tonight - really interested to see how they treat 17th from Meade to Federal, hugely important link. My hot take (is that PBLs should be everywhere, but) is that PBLs are needed more from Meade-Fed than Meade-Sheridan

Allen Cowgill

@AllenCowgill

3 years

Mtg tonight/Thu at 6pm to make this W 17th Ave Bike Lane protected to facilitate more sustainable transportation options in the West Colfax / Sloans Lake neighborhoods… and also so more people can experience the joy of passing cars at rush hour.

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@BuildUpDenver

2 years

PROPOSED: Pearl St and Bayaud Ave, #Denver 80209 - 3-story apartments over a garden level parking structure. 44 apts, 48 veh parking. Walking distance to S Broadway, easy bike ride to downtown. Would replace around 7 units (1 duplex, small apartment building, SU home)

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@BuildUpDenver

3 months

“Denver is too near Cheyenne to ever amount to much.” Reading another history of Denver and this quote made me guffaw. Taken from an editorial in the Cheyenne Daily Leader in 1867, before Denver had a railroad connection. By 1877, Denver had 3

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@BuildUpDenver

11 months

Busy morning at the City Park Farmer’s Market #bikeden

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@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Imagine... from the Decatur-Federal Station Area Plan

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@BuildUpDenver

4 months

Coolest thing I've seen today, courtesy @denverparksrec newsletter. A GIS map illustrating the many, MANY South Platte River Trail improvements and projects planned from now to 2030, along with links to their project pages and phases of design/contruction

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

4 months

New information on this project through the Large Development Review process. The developer states this project could provide "~1 million [sf] of residential, 1,592 residential units, 17,140 sf of retail, & over 1,275 parking spaces, averaging 192 residential units per acre."

Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

7 months

PROPOSED Clermont, 9th, Bellaire, and 11th, #Denver 80220 Adaptive re-use of old, 10-story VA hospital. >53,000 sf of commercial. (Grocery store?) 488 homes, 570 beds. Huge impact on 9th + CO redevelopment, new amenity decks and green spaces. 0 new parking (large existing garage)

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

13 days

NEW - Colorado Dept of Local Affairs has published draft maps for the areas subject to waived parking minimums (for residential or mixed-use) and transit-oriented communities. View the draft maps and give feedback at:

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

9 months

A fabulous presentation this morning by Councilman Hinds about the many existing plans that shape the coming 5280 Trail. No stronger supporter of the Trail than @DenverPerfect10 . Golden Triangle needs car-free Acoma Street, new neighborhood green space!

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@BuildUpDenver

6 months

RTD acting deeply unserious about trying to attract riders

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@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Yes, there are NIMBYs out there, trying to say no. But the mayor has staked his entire, and considerable, political capital on this. These 11 sites are just the beginning, he means it.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

9 months

The Source Hotel and Market Hall is looking to reduce their surface parking footprint out front, per a new concept plan submittal. A reduction of 23 parking spots to add outdoor seating, new lawns, longer ramps up to the market hall, and new trees. Needs more bike racks, IMHO

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@BuildUpDenver

1 year

@AndyKnny Thank you, @AndyKnny for your effort to cover, explain, and contextualize this bill. CPR did (IMHO) a very good job emphasizing both the scale of the current problem w/ housing & the scale of the Governor's solution. Appreciate the work

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@BuildUpDenver

2 years

I’ve said it before: this is basically the best outcome the city could hope for. A new regional park, hundreds of new affordable and workforce housing, neighborhood amenities and they only had to pay 2 mil for the flooding easement to get a seat at the table for all this?

Conor McCormick-Cavanagh

@ConorMichael28

2 years

A really significant Denver City Council vote is taking place this upcoming Monday. It will determine whether Denver voters have ultimate say in April on what happens with the Park Hill Golf Course.

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@BuildUpDenver

2 months

On the Colfax BRT webinar now, listening in on their 100% design, construction timeline, and small business outreach.

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@BuildUpDenver

10 months

Here at the YIMBY Denver conversation on land use with CO State Reps Ruby Dickson and Steven Woodrow. Should be a lively conversation, sounds like Dems are eager to try more bills this next session so that homes can be more affordable and plentiful in CO. Will put out highlights

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Headed to a community meeting with CM Chris Hinds and Mayor Mike Johnston, this one about the proposed micro-communities in the Golden Triangle. Lotta folks here at the Evans School! Will try to tweet out the highlights

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@BuildUpDenver

1 year

This is simply... incredible. Just incredible

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 years

PROPOSED: W 32nd Ave by Federal, #Denver 80211 - a 4-story apartment building in a G-MU-3 zone. 34 homes, 23 veh parking. Pre-EHA, would have been req 1:1 parking to units, now 1:2. By providing at least 4 affordable homes, under EHA, the developers can build up!

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

3 months

California and 22nd St, #Denver 80205 Another big deal for downtown. 2, 25-story towers w/ 3 ground-floor retail spaces. Would add 657 homes (792 beds) to Five Points. 443 veh and 334 bike parking. Love the color and pedestrian experience. Doubt this breaks ground until Q2 2025.

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@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Can confirm, good vibes all around

Nathaniel Minor

@nbminor

1 year

The vibe is good, imho

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@BuildUpDenver

1 year

#TOD on Welton St b/w 30th & 29th Ave, #Denver 80205 - 4-story apartment building replaces 3 SU homes. 36 permanent supportive homes. 5 veh and 31 bike parking. An exceptional development which has more bike parking than space for cars! Minute walk from 30th/Downing Station.

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@BuildUpDenver

2 years

PROPOSED: E Colfax Ave b/w Adams and Cook St, #Denver 80204 - a 6- and 3-story building would fill a vacant lot which used to have retail space. 80 units total, 58 veh parking. Looks like it would bring new gf retail space to the corridor, as well as 18 income-restricted homes

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

The status quo is scraping a modest home in Platt Park, Wash Park, or other desireable neighborhoods to build a luxury single-family home. But we could house more people for a (comparatively) lower price, if we changed the rules. Which would in turn slow the rate of scrapes!

Nathaniel Minor

@nbminor

1 year

Minneapolis and Portland saw rent level off nearly completely over the last six years. How? They built a ton of apartments with little parking. Lessens from other density efforts elsewhere —>

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

4 months

Honored to be invited to another bill signing this afternoon, HB-1313 at Evans Station (the first TOD area that got me interested in writing for @DenverInfill !) This bill sets the pace for how infill housing and sustainable transportation will support Colorado’s greeen future!

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@BuildUpDenver

10 months

We need the bike lane up the rest of Broadway!!

Fastest Them in the West

@fuelbydreams

10 months

@rightlegpegged @MikeJohnstonCO broadway between 20th and colfax is a disaster. It’s like a blender where cyclists and pedestrians just have to hold on and hope they make it through.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

2 months

If you're intrigued by Wynkoop Street as a plaza or car-free street, come hear from the people pushing this vision on August 17th! City officials, elected officials, urban planners, and more will all be there to talk about how the 5280 Trail gets done!

DenverUrbanism Meet Up and 5280 Trail Walk, 9:00am Saturday Aug 17th

With so much focus on Downtown Denver, our noisy public realm, a renewed commitment to Vision Zero, and even a Liveable Larimer campaign, avid readers of DenverUrbanism would be remised in thinking...

denverurbanism.com

Nathaniel Minor

@nbminor

2 months

NEW: Denver’s looking into big changes to Wynkoop Street in downtown. One possibility is making it a permanent “shared street” which could also effectively make the plaza in front of Union Station bigger.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

3 months

PROPOSED California & 17th St, #Denver 80202 39-story, mixed-use building would replace surface parking. 150 homes, 275-room hotel, with GF restaurant and bar. 270 veh & 158 bike parking. Fairly modest height for this part of Downtown, but maxes out available FAR.

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Thread on what #Morehousingnow does to Tier 1 cities, TOD areas, what a minimum density of 40 du/acre looks like, the timeline for change, and where will we see some of the biggest effects... It's big. It's really, really BIG.

Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

More now on TOD w/n the bill. A lot of standards probably to follow, but at the least, it requires zoning of at least 40 dwelling units per acre w/n 1/2 mile of a fixed rail stop, and eliminates parking req in TOD zones

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Build Up Denver

@BuildUpDenver

1 year

Tell me about a Denver spot (new or old) that you were surprised you liked. I’ll go first, The Woods at The Source Hotel. The view and the vibes are right

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