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Originally Posted by BG918
Funny so many in Denver deride all of the new buildings that have gone up over the past decade with the exception of the ones in the Lodo and Union Station areas since they have a more strict design review. Go to the areas outside downtown and the new construction is about as bland as it gets, lots of wood frame over podium with EIFS/lap siding/vinyl windows, little to no sidewalk retail and even less landscaping. Unlike Atlanta with its big trees and sub-tropical climate Denver is a semi-arid brown desert so bad new builds stand out more.
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Yeah, I would not say the quality of new construction is any better than Atlanta on average. Both have a lot of too-big shitbox bland apartment complexes, with a fair number of decent smaller scale infill projects (SFH, duplexes, townhomes) and some very nice mid-rises and highrises in the core.
If you want to look for places with much higher design standards across the board, you've generally got to look at areas that are also much more expensive, like New York. And even then, the quality of new builds in L.A. or Oakland isn't better than Atlanta. It's really a nationwide problem at the moment.