Denver neighborhoods

Looking for a map of Denver neighborhoods? You'll find that here, plus news about Denver neighborhoods and how they are, were and will be -- as well as where to eat and play in various Denver neighborhoods.

Development partner Haroun Cowans speaks as he and other developers meet with the Five Points community to announce new plans for the Rossonian Hotel. Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, April 16, 2018.

Haroun Cowans, new chair of the Five Points BID, talks the future of Welton Street

"This was one of those neighborhoods in Colorado that was really redlined, and community turned that struggle into beauty. I think that’s something we should never forget."

Retired English teacher and East High School museum curator Richard Nelson tells stories in East's clocktower. Dec. 14, 2022.

This retired teacher has climbed East High School’s tower since ’64, watching Denver grow

"Now this is higher education," one of Richard Nelson's old students used to say.

4631 Josephine St. is a vacant lot next to I-70 in Elyria Swansea. Dec. 21, 2022.

The state took these properties to expand I-70. Now they’re empty lots, and the community wants them back.

Community members are applying for funds to buy back the land.

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Colorado Boulevard, pictured here Oct. 28, 2022, these days often feels like a traffic-choked, pedestrian-intolerant, sometimes-totally run down mess. But CDOT and the city are in the early stages of making bus transit improvements that could restore some of the road's original feel.

How Colorado Boulevard went from pedestrian paradise to a ‘ghastly mess’

The Denver street is 11 lanes at its widest point and is part of the city’s “high-injury network” of major roadways.

Artist Emanuel Martinez unveils his new sculpture, a tribute to La Raza Park and the city's Chicano activists. Sunnyside, June 20, 2021.

La Raza Park, a Northside gathering place, may one day be a historic landmark

Councilmember Amanda Sandoval and community members are hoping to put an application forward next year to earmark La Raza Park as a historic landmark.

401 Madison St. in Denver's Cherry Creek neighborhood. Dec. 5, 2022.

Architect Richard Crowther’s former Cherry Creek home can now be demolished

City Council rejected giving the building landmark status Monday night. But the debate raised questions about preserving history in Denver.

Is this Cherry Creek house an eyesore or a historic gem? It depends who you ask.

Prominent architect Richard Crowther's home is up for preservation. For historians and architects it's important history. For the neighbors, it's “a brutal slab of concrete."

The Yad Achas synagogue at 3500 W. Conejos Pl. in Denver's West Colfax neighborhood. Dec. 5, 2022.

As redevelopment encroaches on West Colfax’s Jewish history, some hope a cultural district will help preserve it

“We want to maintain some semblance of community here."

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Denver parents, students, teachers plead with the board not to close schools

An old safe inside an old safe inside the National Western Center's historic livestock exchange building. Nov. 2, 2022.

A giant vault, fancy urinals and unique architecture: A look at the Denver Livestock Exchange building’s past — and potential future

City Council will vote Nov. 21 to make the building a landmark designation, preserving it for the future as part of the National Western Center’s campus. Some wonder, what’s in it for the Globeville-Elyria Swansea community?

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