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9 projectsRiver Mile
River Mile is a proposed large-scale redevelopment of the Elitch Gardens site and surrounding surface parking along the South Platte River on the western edge of downtown Denver. The project spans roughly 60 acres between Speer Boulevard and Interstate 25, making it one of the largest remaining undeveloped parcels near the city center. The land is owned by Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, which controls Elitch Gardens and the surrounding property through its Elitch Holdings entity. Los Angeles–based Revesco Properties is serving as the master developer under a long-term ground lease and development agreement, giving Revesco responsibility for planning, entitlements, and phased buildout while KSE retains ownership. River Mile is planned as a dense, mixed-use neighborhood that would ultimately replace Elitch Gardens with residential towers, office space, hotels, retail, entertainment uses, and new public open space. The proposal includes significant riverfront improvements and expanded access to the South Platte River, with building heights increasing closer to downtown and lower-scale development along the water. The project is expected to take decades to fully build out and remains subject to city approvals, infrastructure coordination, and phased implementation. If realized, River Mile would significantly expand downtown Denver westward and permanently reshape the Central Platte Valley riverfront.
Sante Fe Yards
Santa Fe Yards is a large redevelopment site in Denver’s Baker neighborhood, located near Interstate 25, Broadway, and the Broadway light rail station. The site sat largely vacant for years following industrial use, leaving a highly visible stretch of land underutilized just south of downtown and along one of the city’s busiest transit corridors. The project is now anchored by Denver Summit FC, the city’s National Women’s Soccer League expansion team. Summit FC plans to build a purpose-built soccer stadium at Santa Fe Yards that will serve as the team’s permanent home beginning in 2028. The stadium is designed specifically for professional women’s soccer and is intended to host matches, community events, and year-round programming rather than function as a single-use venue. Beyond the stadium, Santa Fe Yards is envisioned as a broader sports and entertainment district. Plans include new public open space, pedestrian and bike connections, and future mixed-use development that could add restaurants, retail, and additional neighborhood-serving uses. The site’s proximity to light rail and South Broadway positions it as a transit-oriented project with regional reach. If built as planned, Santa Fe Yards would transform a long-dormant industrial site into one of Denver’s most prominent sports-anchored redevelopment projects, reshaping the southern edge of downtown while establishing a permanent home for women’s professional soccer in the city.
Cherry Creek West
Cherry Creek West is a large mixed-use redevelopment planned for the southwest edge of the Cherry Creek Shopping Center in Denver. The project will transform roughly 13 acres of surface parking lots and underutilized land into a dense, walkable neighborhood that expands the Cherry Creek district beyond its traditional retail core. Led by East West Partners and Ascentris, Cherry Creek West is designed as a mixed-use urban village with a strong focus on pedestrian activity and public space. Plans call for a combination of residential buildings, office space, retail and dining, hotels, and several acres of new plazas and green space. Parking will be placed primarily underground to prioritize street-level activity and improve connections to surrounding neighborhoods. The development is intended to function as a live-work-play environment, with new streets, improved bike and pedestrian infrastructure, and direct connections to the Cherry Creek Trail and waterway. The project aims to better integrate Cherry Creek’s shopping district with nearby residential areas while creating a more complete neighborhood experience. Once built, Cherry Creek West will significantly reshape the western edge of Cherry Creek, adding housing, jobs, and public gathering spaces in one of Denver’s most established and high-profile commercial districts.
Burnham Yards
Burnham Yard is a 58-acre former railroad yard located just southwest of downtown Denver, near the La Alma-Lincoln Park neighborhood. The site was used for rail operations for decades before becoming inactive in 2016, leaving one of the largest underutilized parcels near the city center. The property is now the focus of a major long-term redevelopment effort led by the City of Denver, with plans to transform the rail yard into a dense, mixed-use urban district. The vision centers on reconnecting surrounding neighborhoods, improving mobility, and introducing new housing, jobs, entertainment, and public open space on land that historically functioned as a physical and psychological barrier. Burnham Yard gained national attention after the Denver Broncos announced plans to pursue a new, privately funded NFL stadium on the site. The proposed stadium would include a retractable roof and be surrounded by a broader mixed-use development featuring retail, hospitality, residential, office space, and public gathering areas. The stadium is envisioned as an anchor for a year-round destination district rather than a standalone venue. At the same time, the city is advancing a Burnham Yard Small Area Plan to guide development through community input, with a focus on infrastructure, housing affordability, environmental remediation, and minimizing displacement. If built out as envisioned, Burnham Yard would represent one of the most significant urban redevelopment projects in Denver’s history.
Rock Drill
The Rock Drill project is a major mixed-use redevelopment centered on the historic Denver Rock Drill Manufacturing Company site in the Cole and RiNo area of north Denver. The roughly 6.7–8.1-acre site once housed industrial facilities producing mining drills but has sat largely underused for years. The redevelopment effort aims to transform this former industrial campus into a vibrant, walkable district that preserves historic character while adding modern urban uses. Under plans advanced by OliverBuchanan Group and longtime owners, the site is being rezoned from industrial to mixed-use zoning allowing buildings up to around 16 stories tall. The concept calls for hundreds of new residential units (700–800 or more), office space, retail and restaurant space, a hotel, and public open space. Multiple historic sawtooth-roofed industrial buildings will be preserved and adaptively reused, anchoring the design and honoring the site’s industrial heritage. The project also incorporates historic preservation, affordable housing commitments (minimum income-restricted units), and significant public realm improvements, including plazas, walkways and connections to the nearby 39th Avenue Greenway and transit at the 38th & Blake station. A development agreement approved by Denver City Council includes tax-increment financing support to help cover remediation and rehabilitation costs. Overall, Rock Drill is envisioned as a new urban hub that integrates residential living, work spaces, hospitality, retail, public space and historic architecture, strengthening Denver’s River North corridor.
Fox Park
Fox Park is a transformational 41-acre mixed-use redevelopment in the Globeville neighborhood of North Denver, centered on the former Denver Post printing plant site near the I-25 and I-70 interchange. The project aims to turn a long-underutilized and previously contaminated industrial parcel into a vibrant, walkable urban community with housing, offices, hotels, parks, culture, retail and entertainment uses. The master plan calls for a diverse mix of uses including more than 1,000 residential units with mixed-income and affordable options, commercial and office space, a Virgin Hotel Colorado’s first location, a new World Trade Center Denver campus, and a variety of cultural and entertainment components such as live performance venues and indoor adventure attractions. A key feature of Fox Park is its 14 acres of integrated open space and park network, designed to knit the development together and provide recreational, public gathering and cultural spaces, along with walkable streets and bike connections tied to regional transit at the nearby 41st & Fox RTD station. The project also emphasizes environmental and community goals including EPA-supported soil remediation of the former Superfund-impacted site, adaptive reuse of portions of the historic Post printing facility for cultural and office space, and neighborhood benefit agreements that focus on jobs, affordable housing, and small business opportunities. Development is unfolding in phases over the next decade or more, with early infrastructure complete and vertical construction underway — including the parking, plaza and first residential and office elements — signaling the emergence of Fox Park as a major new node of urban life in Denver.
Ball Arena
The Ball Arena redevelopment is a long-term, multi-phase plan led by Kroenke Sports & Entertainment to transform the extensive surface parking lots surrounding Ball Arena into a dense, mixed-use urban neighborhood. The 55- to 64-acre project would turn what is now mostly pavement into a new downtown district with residential, hospitality, entertainment, retail, public spaces and infrastructure rather than vast lots of car parking. The vision for the site is to create a new downtown-like neighborhood anchored by Ball Arena (home of the Nuggets and Avalanche) that integrates with nearby areas like LoDo, Auraria Campus, Sun Valley and the River Mile development. The master plan calls for thousands of new housing units (approximately 6,000 over full build-out), including affordable housing components, office space, retail and entertainment uses. Initial concept plans focus on converting a 3.7-acre lot into a mixed-use cluster with four vertical buildings over an underground garage that would include a hotel, a performance venue, residential buildings with hundreds of units, retail/restaurant space and public plazas. A pedestrian bridge over Speer Boulevard is planned to better connect the new district with Lower Downtown. Public benefits tied to the redevelopment include community agreements to provide affordable housing (minimum percentage required), prioritization of local and small businesses, and job opportunities for lower-income residents. The full project is expected to unfold over decades, with Phase 1 entertainment-oriented development potentially completed by the early 2030s and the entire build-out possibly stretching toward 2050 as new neighborhoods rise. In short, this redevelopment will replace miles of surface parking with a dense, walkable district featuring housing, hospitality, culture, and public space that extends Denver’s urban core around one of its major sports and entertainment anchors.
Clayworks
Clayworks is a large-scale mixed-use redevelopment transforming the historic CoorsTek site in downtown Golden into a walkable, sustainable district anchored by a new global headquarters for CoorsTek. The project is led by AC Development, the real estate arm of the Coors family, and reimagines the former industrial campus into roughly 1 million square feet of new space that blends work, living, hospitality, retail, and open space. The master plan calls for 600,000–700,000 square feet of office space, about 550 multifamily housing units, a 150-room hotel and conference center, restaurants and retail offerings, and significant public open space with new connections into downtown. Early phases focus on the CoorsTek headquarters and additional office space marketed to health, wellness and community-oriented tenants. Clayworks emphasizes sustainability, wellness, and community integration, with design features such as geothermal energy, LEED-certified buildings, walkable streetscapes, plazas and public amenities. The district is expected to evolve over 10–15 years through phased construction. The redevelopment also celebrates the site’s long history—originally founded in the late 1800s as a glassworks and later ceramics manufacturing facility—by preserving parts of historic structures and weaving Golden’s local legacy into the project’s future identity.
Cherry Lane
Cherry Lane is a major mixed-use redevelopment in Cherry Creek North that is transforming the long-vacant Sears and Crate & Barrel site into a vibrant new destination. It replaces underutilized buildings with an integrated urban district combining luxury retail, restaurants, residences, office space, and public gathering areas. The project spans roughly 9.45 acres and is designed by Tryba Architects with partners including BMC Investments, Prism Places, and Invesco Real Estate. It will feature ground-floor and mezzanine retail and restaurant space, outdoor pedestrian-oriented lanes, and wellness-focused design features that enhance walkability and connectivity in the neighborhood. When complete, Cherry Lane will include hundreds of residential units, significant retail square footage with high-end and local brands, office spaces, and a network of outdoor plazas and gathering spaces intended to serve both residents and visitors. It is positioned as a new gateway and lifestyle hub for Cherry Creek that elevates the area’s already strong mix of shopping and dining. Key elements of the development: Mixed-use site redeveloped from former Sears/Crate & Barrel buildings. Hundreds of residential units integrated above retail. Tens of thousands of square feet of retail and restaurant space. Pedestrian-oriented design with outdoor retail lanes and public spaces. Office space and community-focused environments. Overall, Cherry Lane aims to broaden Cherry Creek’s appeal as a luxury shopping, dining, and urban living destination with a strong emphasis on community experience and walkability.