Nothing has happened the way it was supposed to happen for the family of Esmeralda Aguilar.

The Underground Music Showcase once again is ringing through the streets of Baker, and photographer Chloe Aiello was there to catch some of the action.

The city has a lot planned for these long-neglected neighborhoods. Residents wonder what the future will bring.

It wasn't a given the people who live in those neighborhoods would get construction jobs. Federal policy used to prohibit local hire preferences.

Swansea is kind of "like Mayberry." If Mayberry had to deal with marijuana grow operations and 18-wheelers on residential streets.

CDOT and city officials want a new I-70 through north Denver, 10 lanes wide, dug into the earth between Brighton and Colorado boulevards, with new 46th Street frontage roads on the north and south sides of the highway. Naturally, it's complicated.

It turns out we don't really understand the relationship between gentrification and displacement.

The city of Denver is getting sued over its plans to run a major drainage project through northeast Denver and specifically to use city-owned golf courses for detention.

The Denver City Council is about to decide whether to build a huge flood-control project in Denver with a significant hike to sewer service prices. That project, called Platte to Park Hill, has come under intense public scrutiny lately, in part because its infrastructure runs through neighborhoods that have long dealt with the worst side-effects of Denver's industry and development. Who's it going to benefit, is it really necessary, and how will it affect the people who live near it?

"They're going to knock down the little houses and build condos. It's going to be all rich people in here."

"They said it was the dumbest idea they ever heard."

"What I’m trying to find is a city that can live up to the hype," said U.S. Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx.