Six projects considered transformational received awards from the Downtown Denver Partnership at the organization's 55th Annual Downtown Denver Awards.
The honorees, selected by a jury of key business leaders convened by the partnerships, are businesses, projects and initiatives that had the most significant impact on the center city in 2015.
The winners:
- 16M, a 10-story, 340,000-square-foot mixed-use building in LoDo
- Balfour at Riverfront Park, a four-star senior living community downtown
- Expansion project at the Denver Art Museum | The ART Hotel, a transformation of a public parking garage into 55 residences, new retail, 50,000 square feet of office space and the ART Hotel
- Elan Union Station | King Soopers, 314 apartments and downtown's first full-service grocery store
- Lawrence Street Community Center, a center where Denver's homeless community can access basic services, including bathrooms, showers, laundry facilities, food, drinking fountains and power outlets
- Regency Athletic Complex at MSU Denver, transformation of an unused plot of land into a 13-acre sports complex
"We are grateful for the opportunity to pause each year to celebrate the achievements that advance us toward our vision of a world-class center city," says Tami Door, president and CEO of the Downtown Denver Partnership. "These projects support our place-based economic development strategy and have made significant contributions to bolster downtown Denver as a powerful economic engine for the city, state and region."
Contact Confluence Denver Development News Editor Margaret Jackson with tips and leads for future stories at margaret@confluence-denver.com.
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