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Urban entrepreneurship

Denver’s thriving downtown redevelopment provides
a perfect setting for PLACEMATTERS06

Brownfields development provides one avenue for redirecting some of the West’s growth from sprawl to urban infill.

As I wrote in the opening column of this series http://www.headwatersnews.org/perspective.html#origcolumn , these developments depend crucially on private entrepreneurship to make them work. The same is true of another expanding phenomenon in western cities: downtown revitalization, which now increasingly includes residential development in the heart of town.

My wife and I recently visited family and friends in Denver. I kept asking people how Mayor John Hickenlooper was doing, and kept getting favorable reports about his leadership.

I was also encouraged several times to visit the Wynkoop brew pub, which had been Hickenlooper’s claim to fame before he ran for mayor in 2003. We enjoyed a good meal and an even better microbrew, and then strolled around the recently revitalized Lower Downtown (“LoDo”) before catching the 16th Street trolley back to our hotel.

By Daniel Kemmis
for Headwaters News

Full Story: http://www.headwatersnews.org/perspective.html

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