Community Planning and Development

The study area for the Northeast Downtown Neighborhoods Plan is approximately 1.5 square miles in size. A majority of the study area is within the boundaries of the Five Points Neighborhood Statistical Area (NSA), and includes the neighborhoods of Arapahoe Square, Ballpark, Curtis Park, and San Rafael, as well as the Upper Larimer portion of the River North neighborhood, the Enterprise Hill area near Benedict Fountain Park, and the westernmost blocks of Cole and Whittier.

Public Meeting #3, held on February 10, 2011 at the EXDO Events Center

• View Presentation Part 1 , Presentation Part 2
• 21st Street Concept
• Preserving Broadway Concept
• Bridging Broadway Concept
• Celebrating Broadway Concept 
• Future Land Use Concept 
• Max Building Height Concept 
• Mobility Framework Concept 
• New Park Concept 
• Social Services Concept 
• Streetcar Concept

• View the Presentation
• View the Vision
• View the Guiding Principles 1-5
• View the Guiding Principles 6-9

• View the Presentation 
• View the Study Parameters Board
• View the Open House Questions Board

• River North Plan (2003)
• Downtown Denver Area Plan (2007)
• 38th & Blake Station Area Plan (2009)
• River North Greenway Master Plan (2009)
• Denver’s Marketplace Initiative for Five Points/Welton Street (2009) 
• FasTracks Central Corridor Extension (RTD)
• FasTracks East Corridor (RTD)
• Arapahoe Square Blight Study (DURA)   
• A Northeast Downtown Neighborhood Plan was adopted by City Council in October 1995  View the plan