Comment on Architects push to make Denver's Santa Fe Arts District more pedestrian friendly

Keegan P: I think you should look closer at the neighborhood. It is nothing like the gang infested wasteland of decades past. I live in the neighborhood and walk/bike it frequently. The number of owner occupied residences has skyrocketed and the population has become a vibrant mix of incomes and ethnicity. The promenade is already part of the redevelopment of the DHA properties (Lincoln Park South) from exclusively section 8 to mixed income and mixed use properties. The new idea would just extend it from Mariposa to Santa-Fe.

I would prefer Santa Fe and Kalamath go two-way, but I admit owning a house on Kalamath makes me a bit biased. Either way the reworking of the pedestrian domain on Santa Fe is way overdue. I know the merchants are loath to lose on street parking but I think the ideas proposed should be able to keep it. I think a parking structure in the arts district would be great but I don't know that the everyday demand would justify it.

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