Jessica Alvarado Gamez

1 week ago | denverpost.com | Aldo Svaldi |Jessica Alvarado Gamez

In the battle for Downtown Denver’s future, victory or defeat could hinge on convincing people it is safe to visit, work and live in the area, and key to that will be restoring the vibrancy of 16th Street (“mall” was recently dropped from its name), which is wrapping up a three-year renovation. Surveys of why people avoid downtown center on a lack of a sense of safety, and city officials and the Downtown Denver Partnership have made restoring it a priority.

1 week ago | denverpost.com | Aldo Svaldi |Jessica Alvarado Gamez

The COVID-19 pandemic turned Downtown Denver from the place to be to a place to flee, derailing two decades of momentum overnight. Five years later, downtown’s recovery continues to lag behind most other cities, and the delay is costing Denver and the region. “We can wait 10 or 15 years and the market will correct. It historically always has,” said Kourtny Garrett, president and CEO of the Downtown Denver Partnership.

1 week ago | denverpost.com | Kevin Hamm |Aldo Svaldi |Jessica Alvarado Gamez

Several of Downtown Denver’s largest towers sit half empty as the clock ticks on unsustainable debts that must be refinanced, repaid or renounced. Unable to find enough tenants to support debt payments, about three in 10 commercial mortgages tied to office buildings in metro Denver are delinquent, the third-worst showing in the country out of 50 metros, according to a report from Trepp last summer.

1 week ago | denverpost.com | Jessica Alvarado Gamez

A vacant lot in Denver’s Central Park neighborhood is set to be transformed into a new shopping center, anchored by popular grocer Whole Foods Market. Recent plans submitted to the city by local architectural firm The Mulhern Group show the development at 3979 Central Park Blvd. will include a 35,500-square-foot Whole Foods, an 11,800-square-foot district park, 373 parking spaces and three one-story shops.

1 week ago | denver7.com | Jessica Alvarado Gamez

The owners of Bandimere Speedway have acquired their first parcel of land in the Hudson area of Weld County this week, marking a key step toward establishing a new location for the iconic racing venue. “While our family hasn’t been operating a schedule of races in Colorado, we have been working to continue the legacy of automobile racing that (was) started by my parents back in 1958,” said Bandimere Speedway chief spiritual officer, John C. Bandimere Jr., in a social media video post.