Is this the best residence in Riverfront Park?

This beautiful corner residence in Denver’s favorite full-amenity high-rise offers stunning city and mountain views.
The layout features two bedrooms and two bathrooms with plenty of room in between for intimate dining, entertaining friends, or just relaxing with your family.
Come see for yourself; this is a great time to buy in Downtown Denver . . . just steps to Lo-Do!

Holy Moly!  That’s One Awesome Bridge

We’re so excited.  The new Union Gateway Bridge (formerly the 18th Street Pedestrian Bridge) is open!  It’s incredibly cool.  Take the time to walk over there.  The key moment?  Riding down the glass elevator on the Union Station side of the bridge.  The second cool part?  Watching construction at Union Station.  Really, an amazing view that none of us have ever seen before.  For a few details on the bridge, click on through.

UPDATE - 3rd Annual Ski Trip - Getting There is Free!!!

The Riverfront Park Ski Trip is on Saturday, March 20th.  Instead of riding the Ski Train, we will be riding in a luxurious motorcoach and it’s FREE!!!!  It will arrive at 6:30am at the base of the Millennium Bridge – only steps from your front door!  We have one bus to take 55 people.  This is first come, first serve, so RSVP NOW!  Free beer will be provided on the ride back to Denver along with a fabulous after party at Zengo.  **You are welcome to bring your own cooler, but please NO GLASS on the bus.** We hope that you can join us for this great event.  Click through for more details.

A Most Vibrant City for Young Americans in America

It’s not my fault the title is so convoluted.  It’s the fault of the folks at NBC’s Today Show.  Still, despite the host’s inability to name this segment with uber-real estate broker, Barbara Corcoran, Denver gets some pretty mad props in the clip.  Here’s what Corcoran had to say about our fair city:

“It’s got the most diverse population in America, and not only is it diverse, it’s the most well-educated.  So, if you’re hanging out in all those pubs, you’re going to meet educated people.  Denver’s all about the outdoors; it’s the biggest sports city and the biggest party city.  And, no matter where you live, you’ve got those Rocky Mountains."

Click through to see the whole video.

A Little Love from the Denver Post

The Denver Post had some nice things to say about the Glass House today.  Here’s part of the overview:

The Glass House gets credit for transforming Denver’s Riverfront Park neighborhood into an urban hot zone, with pedestrians and attractive retail. That’s a huge accomplishment for any building. But it towers over its neighbors along the park. Time will tell if the hulking structure is out of place in its low-rise section of town, or if it’s an invitation for others to reach higher.

I’d argue this isn’t a low rise part of town; the buildings next to the Glass House reach as high as 14-stories.  But, we still agree: we’re going high as soon as we can.  No reason to click through unless you’re just dying to make a comment.

Best Sign Yet That Union Station Is About To Start

Click through to figure out where this is.

A Red Forest Grows in Riverfront

How cool is this?  A few weeks ago, thanks to funding from the Riverfront Park Community Foundation, a group of folks selected a new art piece for Riverfront Park Plaza.  To be placed beneath the Millennium Bridge, the piece, from Australian artist Konstantin Kondimopoulos (say that three times fast), will be installed in the coming months.  Made from a fancy composite plastic, the piece is essentially a giant red field of plastic grass.  As you can see from the rendering and the When the wind blows, the pieces will brush gently against each other; when the trains couple, the piece will reflect the echo of the trains; and in quiet times, the “grasses” will sit gently against the backdrop of the Millennium Bridge.

Obviously, we’re excited about this great addition to the plaza.  If you want to learn a little bit more, to see renderings, to see other work by Konstantin, and to read a description of the piece form the artist, please click through.

If you’d like to see the renderings a little bigger, go visit the good folks at flickr.

A Picture and Some Copy Is Worth 1,031 Words

Notice that picture up there?  Lots of snow on that street.  Click here to see what having a full time street cleaning crew gets you if you live in Riverfront Park.

We Sort of Disagree With The Denver Post

The Denver Post had a side story in its Saturday edition about Union Station.  It rightly pointed out that the federal governments loans to Union Station set the stage for private development.  But, it also had this to say:

But the loan, announced Friday, won’t set off a land rush in what remains a difficult market for commercial-real-estate projects.

Uhm.

We’re Number Two!

The love affair between the Central Platte Valley and Ken Schroeppel over at denverinfill.com goes on.  Our neighborhood already made one appearance on his countdown of the top ten urban achievements here in Denver in the past ten years.  Today, he named FasTracks and the redevelopment of Union Station his number two.

Ken had two pretty interesting things to say.  The first was about downtown Denver:

“If FasTracks alone wasn’t enough, we have the whole Union Station redevelopment to celebrate as well. Many cities destroyed their historic train stations or converted them beyond repair into shopping malls or festival marketplaces or whatnot. Fortunately in Denver, our Union Station remains intact and is now poised to once again serve as the rail hub for the city and region. Along with its associated private sector development, the Union Station project will complete the transformation of the Central Platte Valley as a dynamic transit-oriented extension of Downtown. Downtown Denver just keeps getting better and better…"

Those are high words of praise.  Click through for more.

[The photo source is odd, to say the least.]

Congrats to Tom and Frank

It was a big day yesterday: the federal government approved $300 million in loans to the Union Station redevelopment.  That’s about 60% of the funding for the project.  It’s our company’s job to develop real estate that, over time, will create tax revenues which in turn will pay back those loans.  Furthermore, the feds indicated their intention to provide $1 billion (with a b) to fund the FasTracks program.  Like I said, incredible.

At the press conference, the politicians, rightfully, spent a lot . . . of . . . time . . . thanking . . . the . . . various . . . elected . . . officials, . . . agencies . . . and. . . organizations . . . that . . . have done so much to make the project a reality.

We wanted to thank the two guys who have led us the whole way: Tom Gougeon and Frank Cannon.  There are no two guys who know more about the project, have pushed more, pulled more, waited more, planned more, or had more of an effect on the project than these two.  Thanks so much to both of them.

We’re Not Saying, But Someone Will Be Soon

Looks like there’s a pretty big announcement going down this afternoon behind Union Station at 1:30.  All kinds of current politicos and politicos wanting to be politicos and so forth will be there.  If you’re wanting to hear what it is, well, you’ll just have to go.  I’m not saying I know, but, I doubt they’d have a press conference if they didn’t have something to say.

Congratulations are probably in order, but we’ll wait until the end of the day, just in case.

That Was Fun

So, the Riverfront Park Social Club got together last night at the soon-to-be venerable Rack & Rye.  The reason?  Well, there were three, really:

1.  We all really like the idea of going to Rack & Rye, and, quite awesomely, they were giving away whiskey, really good whiskey.

2.  Seeing your neighbors is always fun.

3.  The whole thing was for a good cause.  Arlen Preblud and his wife, Leigh, started an awesome new organization called We Don’t Waste.  It’s a neat idea.  Basically, the site is a clearing house for food that’s about to be thrown away but is still good.  Food kitchens and other similar organizations can go online and find sources of free food from wholesalers, grocery stores and restaurants.  Check it out here.

And, if you want to see a few more pictures of the neighbors and the event, click that little comment button right below this sentence.

Don’t Forget - Rack & Rye Tonight

That’s all I’m saying.  Just don’t forget.  Oh, and go.

Quick Link to a Neat Story

Our friend Bill Mosher got some good press this weekend in the Denver Post.  Bill is the project manager for the public side of our public-private partnership at Union Station.  He’s doing a spectacular job.