Once a land of warehouses, the southern end of Denver’s Santa Fe Drive is transforming
It was once a hub of industrial labor, but a recent flood of businesses and cultural institutions is giving the area a makeover and a new reputation.
Focus on: Santa Fe Drive
Denver’s VFW Post 1 is more than a VFW and more than an art gallery
Art is both business and therapy for veterans here.
Years before Santa Fe Drive’s first First Friday, artists bought into Denver’s west side
The 40-year story of how these 15,000 people, with drinks and food-truck fare, got themselves to the middle of Santa Fe Drive.
Santa Fe Drive Week: The faces of August’s First Friday Art Walk
All the fun we had at the biggest First Friday celebration of the year.
Santa Fe Drive was once a hub for the Chicano movement, paving the way for arts and development
“The organizers of the neighborhood were trying to instill into the people that this is serious. This could mean changes that you can’t even believe."
Denver Art Society is a space for artists to start out — and hang out
"Organizations like ours are starting to get shut down and replaced by the big, fancy, shiny, mainstream art galleries. For us to be able to survive, that is really huge for the Denver art scene."
After decades of entertainment on Sante Fe Drive, the Aztlan Theatre faces its future
Tim Correa more or less stumbled into owning the Aztlan Theatre. Decades later, he's looking for someone else to take the helm.
Can you take me to Santa Fe? The early history of west Denver’s “Main Street”
The name of the road was an original transplants-and-natives fight.
