Posted July 22, 200915 yr Englewood is located south of Downtown Denver and has a current population of 32,000. The community was founded in 1903 and is located along the C and D light rail lines. The historic downtown area has some really nice signage going on. The pics were taken during a work day morning. As I was leaving things were starting to pick up.
July 22, 200915 yr Not too shabby. Nice old school theater and "Smashburger" is one of the more amusing business names I've heard for awhile.
July 22, 200915 yr Thanks! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
July 22, 200915 yr Interesting architecture. I'm surprised the TOD doesn't have more offices to give it a 24-hour vibe (and to keep the transit riders coming and going all day, of course). "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 22, 200915 yr Interesting architecture. I'm surprised the TOD doesn't have more offices to give it a 24-hour vibe (and to keep the transit riders coming and going all day, of course). The good part is there are still several old parking lots around this area were they can create more density (residential and office) over time. But, they have a nice start on things.
July 22, 200915 yr Good stuff. Colorado in general has a lot of quality New Urbanism. (And in this case, it's nice to see it mixed in with some of the old regular small-town urbanism.)
July 23, 200915 yr Since when do offices give a place a "24 hour vibe"? Usually, lots of offices kills the night life. Everyone leaves at 5:00 and all of those buildings are empty.
July 23, 200915 yr Beautiful photos and a pristine-looking downtown. Kind of interesting that a Deco theater is named "Gothic."
July 23, 200915 yr There seems to have been a lot of Denver threads lately. While they have a lot of nice new urbanism, they really missed the boat with the architecture. That's pretty ugly stuff.
July 23, 200915 yr i would go as far to say that outside of some of the signage (which really is great) and the transit stop... this place does absolutely nothing for me personally.
July 23, 200915 yr Since when do offices give a place a "24 hour vibe"? Usually, lots of offices kills the night life. Everyone leaves at 5:00 and all of those buildings are empty. He said he was there on a weekday morning. But the area is dead. I see lots of residential, restaurants, retail and nightspots, so you've got the lunch hour, the late afternoons, the evenings and the nighttime covered with activities. If the place is dead on a weekday morning, that tells me it needs offices added to the mix. Plus, the area needs more density and vertical mixing of uses, not just mixing horizontally... These issues were frequently brought up at three public meetings on transit oriented development in Cleveland I just finished organizing and holding, then judging a TOD/station design competition at the Cleveland Urban Design Center. One of the best tools I've found for reviewing TOD plans is available at: http://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/documents/TOD_Checklist-oct06(1).pdf "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage." -- John Steinbeck
July 24, 200915 yr I stand by my belief that the best bikerack in the country is the one in Coventry that's sculpted to look like a woman getting mugged and having her purse stolen. Has anyone on here ever taken a photo of that thing?
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