In just the Union Station area bordered by the central rail line, Speer Boulevard, Wynkoop and 20th streets, the number of housing units has climbed over 2,700 this year up from just 19 in 2000, according to the Downtown Denver Partnership.
The boom in the area represents the power of planning, said Ken Schroeppel, a professor in the University of Colorado Denver’s master of urban and regional planning program.
“That sounds like a long time, but from a city-building perspective that’s really a pretty remarkably short amount of time for such as transformation,” he said.
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