Everything is set for a huge success in Denver’s Lower Downtown — four decades of historic preservation; the big-league sports venues; an amazing nexus of lofts, popular bars and restaurants; and a transportation project in the classic railway station that will put even the international airport within range of a light rail fare.

Denver Union Station Project Authority. Soon-to-be-transformed Union Station in the heart of LoDo has been designed both as a new corporate center and as a multimodal transportation hub that will link to Boulder, DTC and DIA.

The curtain’s going up — but Denver will have to wait a while longer for the opening-night crowd. “The quality is there, but we don’t have the velocity yet; we don’t have the people,” says veteran downtown agent Dee Chirafisi, with Kentwood City Properties. more »

“You know,” a writer told Realtor Lindsey Wiseman at a party last month, “everybody claims that they have the best view in the city. But you really DO have the best view in the city.” You can come see that view in a place you’d never find without some help: Denver’s San Rafael Historic District, on the northeast corner of downtown, a few blocks from City Park.

San Rafael restoration pioneer Jim Wiseman and daughter Lindsey show off six townhomes at 22nd and Emerson. Wiseman’s own historic home is across street.

Lindsey’s dad Jim Wiseman created these six, dazzling townhomes for an area not as well known as Highland or Wash Park. But since the first of the year the small group of buyers that’s seen St. James Row in San Rafael has bought one ($775,000); gone to contract on a second, with a third being written now. more »

Third-grader Jack Davidson is at work building a scale model of downtown’s landmark D&F Tower for his class project at Bromwell Elementary. Meanwhile, interested buyers can arrange a tour of Jack’s house, designed in 1911 by the same Frederick Sterner who a year earlier had penned the Renaissance lines of the 325-foot tower — at that point, the highest building west of the Mississippi River.

RE/MAX Professionals agent Rike Palese shows off 820 Gaylord Street in Denver’s historic Morgan’s district, a block from the Denver Botanic Gardens.
It looks almost as if Sterner devoted as much brick to this stunning 3-story Craftsman at 820 Gaylord Street, a block from the Botanic Gardens, as for his downtown spire. With a huge side yard to work from (three city lots that the Davidson family has kept immaculate), Sterner brought the entry in from the south side, through a magnificent entryway that so few homes, even very expensive customs, have today. more »