Downtown Denver As We Know It Is About To Change Forever

Downtown Denver As We Know It Is About To Change Forever · Denver's LoDo Neighborhood

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Жыл бұрын

Some big changes coming to Downtown Denver, and they involve the Denver Broncos, Denver Nuggets, Colorado Avalanche, Elitch Gardens, and our very wealthy sports team owners in Stan Kroenke and Rob Walton. These interconnected pieces have effects that go far beyond Colorado's sports teams-they'll change how people live in and experience the LoDo neighborhood in Denver, Colorado.
Two projects in the works called The River Mile and The Sports Mile have the potential to change the layout and feel of Downtown Denver forever in a big way, creating new walkable neighborhoods and entertainment districts filled with new things to do in Denver. These developments would change the whole experience of going to a game at Ball Arena or Mile High Stadium, and the success of these projects could ultimately determine if the Denver Broncos will stay in Denver or move to Aurora.
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@tnan123 Жыл бұрын

More parks and greenspace would be great in that area, but please keep the Broncos stadium in the city.

@davechung Жыл бұрын

That’s where I’m at too, Thienan! 👍 Developing around Ball is a done deal, but I’m all for keeping the major stadiums within the city limits.

@mozarab4495 Жыл бұрын

There will be parking maximums. Car travel in high density cities and large sports venues is not sustainable. America needs to learn this.

@JoeSchliewe Жыл бұрын

Love your content! Great to hear the local stuff from a Denver based channel. So glad Elitch gardens is moving, its an eyesore. We need to double down on RTD, downtown parks and entertainment. It'd be tough to see the Bronco's play out towards Nebraska!

@davechung Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Joe!! I’m a big sports fan, so I’d love to see Ball Arena and everything connected to it become a destination. Appreciate the love!

@katydid2877 2 ай бұрын

It’s so sad. I lived there in the 90s when downtown was beautiful, safe, vibrant, new stores, renovations in all those brick and stone old stores that closed and they put in new stores, restaurants, condos on 16th St. It was so pretty at Christmas. I lived in Aurora, but spent lots of time downtown, riding the trolley, going to Rockies games. But, now is has become just another big city.

@jessicalim2764 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting information, thanks!

@davechung Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for watching, Jessica!

@mjohnson9563 11 ай бұрын

Its been a while since I lived there but if still available there used to be a huge chunk of land off of 70 near the shops at stapleton on the north side of the frwy. That would be a great place for Elitches. I still remember the old days when it was up on 38th tucked in a neighborhood.

@tombarron Жыл бұрын

Great video Dave! Keep us updated if you hear anything new.

@davechung Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching, Tom! I’m so happy it seems like a lot of people are interested in what’s on deck in LoDo!

@tpatrickl9539 Ай бұрын

It would be nice if Kronke or Walton would buy the Rockies and turn their fortune around.

@davechung Ай бұрын

It’s been so painful to watch 😭

@shaileshpatel3458 Жыл бұрын

Nice👍 video

@davechung Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much, Shailesh!

@snirks8635 Ай бұрын

The beginning of the end in other words?!

@RYXPfan Жыл бұрын

It IS fun seeing the stadiums downtown, but it's understandable if Mile High is too old they might opt for moving it out towards Aurora🤔

@davechung Жыл бұрын

Agree, it would probably be much easier for them to build out there too!

@rje024 Жыл бұрын

not going to happen. They have the stadium entertainment district in SunValley planned

@mozarab4495 Жыл бұрын

15 percent of all housing will be affordable at various area median incomes. So it will be affordable to very low-income earners, low income earners, median income earners and high income earners.

@WN_Byers Жыл бұрын

Lol

@karols432 Жыл бұрын

The only thing Ball Arena will be surrounded by once this is all said and done is tents like the rest of downtown Denver

@ezstreete 11 ай бұрын

They have to do some serious cleaning up of homeless camps, drugs & crime.... I'm in that area regularly and it is very bad even at Auraria Campus....

@zekeonstormpeak4186 10 ай бұрын

Could the Walmart people please buy the Rockies?

@davechung 10 ай бұрын

😂 it’s been so painful to watch. I wouldn’t be upset!

@WizenedVariations1 Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the same evolution that produced the Union Station light/heavy rail, bus, shuttle interface. The key is transportation over the next 20 to 40 year period (we are what we built years back.) The 2023 transportation map of Denver was conceived in the early 1990s. Similarly, the world of 2023 will reflect the execution of current hypothesis. Think 2043 and preserve right of way.

@davechung Жыл бұрын

Love that perspective, Wizened!

@WN_Byers Жыл бұрын

Except that the new Union Station is a total failure

@WizenedVariations1 Жыл бұрын

@@WN_Byers I agree, particularly AS the Union Station Complex was planned on EMPLY LAND. My point here was that we are stuck TODAY with decisions made in the 80s and 90s. Likewise, any infrastructure we plan now will be what we live with down the line.

@johnwilmer2047 Жыл бұрын

It would be brilliant if a new RAPIDS stadium comes along in this "new area" too..

@davechung Жыл бұрын

Wouldn’t be mad at that at all!

@Dimewick21 Жыл бұрын

I had heard that the site of the soon-to-close Pepsi Bottling plant on 38th and Brighton could be the site of a new MLS stadium once Pepsi bottling moves out to Aurora. I’d personally really love to see this. It would really solidify that part of Rino as a true destination. I jUt don’t love the idea of clustering every sports venue in the same area. Give sports fans different areas to experience.

@danieloshea3326 Жыл бұрын

Soccer sucks and Denver is such a shithole now

@MidnightsDeluxe Жыл бұрын

where do you think Elitch Gardens would move to?

@davechung Жыл бұрын

There have been so many rumors! The owners have been recently acquiring land in Denver, not far from the current site, but likely not big enough for Elitch. I thought they were gonna move it to Aurora, but those rumors seem to have quieted down.

@latino_God 11 ай бұрын

@@davechung read about a year ago that they were looking to move Elitch Gardens somewhere out by Denver International Airport. But that too has quickly died down

@davechung 11 ай бұрын

@@latino_God Totally, it's such a mystery for such a big place. I wonder when we'll get the big reveal (if they even know!).

@brandon_aka_BOT Жыл бұрын

Rich people seem to be out of touch with the average working person so not exactly a fan

@tiaramarie777 Жыл бұрын

There is no reason to move elitch or the stadium in my humble opinion 😢 can’t be mad at them for wanting to make a few changes down there but those 2 places should not be touched smh 🤷🏻‍♀️

@gregsnider2023 Жыл бұрын

I don't think moving a giant stadium into downtown is a good idea. The RTD could never handle the influx of people. The traffic would just get worse and parking costs would skyrocket. But hey some rich asshole gets to make more money!

@gregsnider2023 Жыл бұрын

@Jack Haag I'd totally be okay with it being done that way. I just think realistically they're going to put in an ungodly amount of parking and leave RTD underfunded and infrequent.

@5050YT 9 ай бұрын

Highway between Empower and everything else down there is going to be a mess. They’d need to build a massive bridge over 25. I would personally love to see them move the Broncos to Aurora. Aurora is very up and coming, but is very boring right now. There is nothing to do there, and the Broncos being over there would drastically change that area.

@davechung 9 ай бұрын

Both great points! If they went big, the Broncos could literally create a whole area of Aurora that would have so much potential for this side of town.

@tiaramarie777 Жыл бұрын

This is sad to me but what do a bunch of multi billionaires give a damn…can’t even be mad at them but why move elitch…I have so many amazing pictures with the Denver skyline, elitch gardens and the mountains smh…I say don’t move elitch or mile high stadium and figure it out from there 😢

@davechung Жыл бұрын

It’s definitely going to feel weird not having Elitch right next to Ball and the trolley tracks!

@bradleychristian4515 3 ай бұрын

What difference does it make?

@justjeff4186 7 ай бұрын

I think we all can agree that the only option is to knock down those unusable eyesores. It’s our responsibility as the city to take money from the dirty poors and give it to out of town money-monopolizers. These profiteers don’t have the ability to make ALL the money and it’s time that changed. Anyone who isn’t rich enough to fit in can move to Greeley.

@WN_Byers Жыл бұрын

Wont work.

@kevinmccutcheon7047 Жыл бұрын

So what you're saying is that Denver, specifically the downtown area is about to become a bigger crap hole than it already is?! Once again, this nonsense if for a very low percentage of the population. If the Broncos want a new stadium, they can pay for it themselves. The taxpayers don't need to be saddled with another endless tax.

@latino_God 11 ай бұрын

Yeah no kidding… and the way the Broncos have been performing lately, they hardly deserve to be rewarded with a new stadium smh 🤦🏻‍♂️