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Street system of Denver. The oldest part of Denver, Colorado, now the neighborhoods of Auraria Campus, LoDo, much of downtown, and Five Points, is laid out on a grid plan that is oriented diagonal to the four cardinal directions. The rest of the city, including the eastern part of downtown, is laid out primarily on a grid oriented to the ...
Downtown Denver is the main financial, commercial, business, and entertainment district in Denver, Colorado, United States. There is over 23 million square feet (2,100,000 m 2) of office space in downtown Denver, with 132,000 workers. [1] The downtown area consists mostly of the neighborhoods of Union Station and Central Business District.
The 16th Street Mall is a pedestrian and transit mall in Denver, Colorado that opened in 1982. The mall, 1.25 miles (2 kilometers) long, runs along 16th Street in downtown Denver, from Wewatta Street (at Union Station) to the intersection of 16th Avenue and Broadway (at Civic Center Station). The intricate granite stone sidewalks and streets ...
There are 314 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Denver, including 1 National Historic Landmark. Downtown Denver includes 151 of these properties and districts, including the National Historic Landmark and 2 that extend into other regions; the city's remaining properties and districts are listed elsewhere.
Colfax Avenue, Denver, Colorado. / 39.73837; -104.32372. Colfax Avenue is the main street that runs east–west through the Denver metropolitan area in Colorado. As U.S. Highway 40, it was one of two principal highways serving Denver before the Interstate Highway System was constructed. In the local street system, it lies 15 blocks north of the ...
Mayfair. Parkfield. RiNo – "River North," part of the Five Points neighborhood. Northside – a large area of northwest Denver. South Denver – an area encompassing several neighborhoods south of Alameda Blvd., and the name of municipality annexed into Denver in 1894. Uptown – an area roughly corresponding with North Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Speer Boulevard runs north–south through downtown Denver. All roads in the downtown grid system are streets (e.g., 16th Street, Stout Street), except for the five NE–SW roads nearest the intersection of Colfax Avenue and Broadway: Cheyenne Place, Cleveland Place, Court Place, Tremont Place and Glenarm Place. Roads outside that system that ...
Denver Union Station is the main railway station and central transportation hub in Denver, Colorado. It is located at 17th and Wynkoop Streets in the present-day LoDo district and includes the historic station house, a modern open-air train shed, a 22-gate underground bus station, and light rail station. [ 4][ 5] A station was first opened on ...