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A factor in the increase in urban poor along Colfax has been linked to Denver Urban Renewal Authority's plans for urban renewal in Downtown Denver. In the now-discredited belief that tearing down historic buildings and replacing them with modern architecture and high-rises would benefit cities, DURA bulldozed the bulk of Larimer Street in downtown.
Casper R. Hartman was the first speculator to purchase land in what is now Park Hill. [2] After building a freighting business between Denver and St. Joseph Missouri, [3] Hartman built a livery stable in West Denver, [4] and in 1871 purchased the roughly 140 acre area [5] bounded by Colorado/McKinley Ave. to the west, Montview Blvd. to the north, Dahlia/Caribou St. to the east, and Colfax Ave ...
As Denver's population expanded rapidly, many old buildings were torn down to make way for new housing projects. The Denver Urban Renewal Authority demolished block after block to make room for apartments and parking lots. Many of Denver's finest buildings from the frontier era were demolished, including the Tabor Opera House, as the city ...
Coordinates: 39°42′15″N104°59′20″W39.70417°N 104.98889°W. Broadway Plaza, also known as Broadway InterPlaza, located near Broadway and Alameda in Denver, Colorado, was a retail complex most notable as the only North American location of the French department store Printemps. The store was open for approximately 16 months before ...
1978-01-09. The Denver Dry Goods Company Building is a historic department store building located in downtown Denver, Colorado. For a while, the store was claimed to be the largest department store west of Chicago. A description on one postcard from 1916 read: "The Largest Store in the Central West, 400 Feet long-Seven Acres Floor Area, 1,200 ...
The new plans, approved Thursday by the Oklahoma City Urban Renewal Authority, call for between 48 and 57 residences to be built over the next six years. McAlister said he is targeting a total of ...
Urban renewal evolved into a policy based less on destruction and more on renovation and investment, and today is an integral part of many local governments. A primary purpose of urban renewal is to restore economic viability to a given area by attracting external private and public investment and by encouraging business start-ups and survival. [5]
Dana Hudkins Crawford. Dana Hudkins Crawford (born July 22, 1931) is an American architectural conservation developer and preservationist working in Denver, Colorado. She has been involved in almost every renovation project in downtown Denver, from the initial designation of the LoDo District and creation of Larimer Square to the Union Station.