Tag: Historic Preservation
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Time ticking for Denver to save 122-year-old steam plant
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save After years of talks and paused demolition plans, movement to convert a historic plant famous for powering downtown Denver’s early days into something new is picking up steam. More specifically, Xcel Energy thinks it’s time for the city to make a choice. Last week, the…
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Denver City Council denies Channel 7 building landmark status
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Denver City Council voted unanimously late Monday not to designate the Channel 7 building at 123 E. Speer Blvd. a landmark. Though it’s likely the red, octagonal “brutalist” architecture-style building will be demolished to make room for an apartment building tower, the developer signed…
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Colorado byway wins national Beautification Community Award
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The preservation of a historic 500-acre ranch in the San Luis Valley has earned Colorado’s Los Caminos Antiguos Byway the national Beautification Community Award. The byway — a 129-mile road running from Alamosa to Champa,…
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Denver commission tags Channel 7 building with landmark status
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver’s Landmark Preservation Commission voted Tuesday to designate the 51-year-old Channel 7 building at 123 E. Speer Blvd. a landmark, preventing developers from razing the five-story Brutalist-style building. Commissioners voted 6-1 to recommend approval of the designation application and forwarded it to City Council’s Land…
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3 Denver residents seek landmark preservation status for Channel 7 building
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Denver’s Channel 7 looking for new digs; debate over its 51-year home just beginning
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save If you’ve driven into downtown Denver north off I-25, and took Lincoln Street north, you’ve seen the red hulking Channel 7 building at 123 E. Speer Blvd. Millions of motorists have driven by since the brutalist architecture style building was erected in 1969. To many,…