DENVER | Main Development Thread #6

[corey]

I'm glad Denver Parks are taking a more aggressive stand against the drug use at Commons Park. I don't know why they created that hill in the middle of the park in the first place. Did they have a huge amount of dirt from some other part of the project or from one of the original adjacent building projects they didn't want to haul away? I have a degree in Landscape Architecture and one of my pet peeves is creating artificial topography like this hill for no reason. I think it is much better to let the natural topography of the site dictate the design. To make it worse they put a recessed sundial thingy at the top that is not visible from below, practically inviting people to engage in illicit activity there. What did they think would happen? There are ALWAYS transients and pot heads in there. I have also seen first hand junkies shooting up under the pedestrian bridge. I think an easy fix there would be some very obvious security cameras to scare them off.