Activate Denver’s Urban Core
The Future of Denver’s 16th Street Mall 1 Outline Reimagining the 16th St Mall 1. Vision / Ambition • Outcomes • Process
2. What streets perform with this vision?
3. How is 16th Street performing today? • In the frame of downtown Denver
4. Process for Change • Iterative testing • What we are doing now
5. 16th Street Reimagined • New identity for 16th Street • Moving forward 2 1 Vision and Ambition
3 How do we transform a utilitarian street...
DENVER UNION ST
19TH STREET
18TH STREET
RECREATIONAL
ROUTE BROADWAY
16TH STREET
AURARIA
CIVIC CENTER STATION
CIVIC CENTER PARK 4 ...to a world class destination!
DENVER UNION ST
19TH STREET
18TH STREET
RECREATIONAL 17TH STREET
ROUTE
15TH STREET BROADWAY
AURARIA
CIVIC CENTER STATION
CIVIC CENTER PARK 5 ...to a network of urban spaces & complete streets
DENVER UNION ST
19TH STREET
18TH STREET
17TH STREET RECREATIONAL CURTIS ST
ROUTE
15TH STREET BROADWAY
CALIFORNIA ST
WYNKOOP ST
AURARIA
CONVENTION CIVIC CENTER CENTER STATION
GLENARM ST
CIVIC CENTER PARK 6 Activate Denver’s Core
The Next Stage The Outdoor Downtown
The Future of Denver’s Performing The Future of Denver’s Parks & Arts Complex Public Spaces
The Next Stage is a planning project The 20-year plan will focus on that reviews both the highest and investment in Downtown’s parks and best use of spaces at the Denver public spaces to enhance the quality of Performing Arts Complex and the life and create a sustainable, vibrant integration of the Colorado Convention downtown that is economically healthy Center into the neighborhood that and growing comprises the Denver Theatre District in downtown Denver. The Mall Experience The Future of Denver’s 16th Street Mall
Invite people to better enjoy the 16th Street Mall by visiting more often and staying longer. Identifying ways to help the mall reach its full potential as a welcoming place for everyone
and the heart of a vibrant downtown. 7 16th Street is already...
an iconic, nationally recognized transit mall
It is time to reimagine it as...
8 A premier public place for people... An authentic Denver experience
9 16th Street is already...
a place where 50k people pass through
It is time to reimagine...
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