Downtown Denver only half recovered from COVID pandemic
Aug 26, 2022 by: DJ Summers - KDVR
If this sounds familiar it's b/c it's the same data source which I previously posted about. The good news is no politics here but a rather well written article.
One thing worth pointing out is they extracted the map of downtown Denver that was used for their analysis.
See Here. As you can see downtown does NOT include Ball Park or RiNo neighborhoods (which makes sense).
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Many may have noticed how in recent years several developers from Chicago have come to Denver. Were they looking for 'greener pastures' or just trying to beat the rush out of town?
https://www.bisnow.com/chicago/news/...14407?rt=88442
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After teasing a departure over the city’s rise in violent crime for months, billionaire Ken Griffin finally bit the bullet this past June, announcing plans to move his investment firm Citadel from downtown Chicago to Miami, complaining the city had become too dangerous to house the multinational hedge fund.
“If people aren’t safe here, they’re not going to live here,” Griffin told The Wall Street Journal this spring, pointing to colleagues who'd been mugged at gunpoint, stabbed or burglarized. “I mean, that’s a really difficult backdrop with which to draw talent to your city from.”
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Some may not be familiar with Ken Griffin/Citadel but there's more, much more.
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Griffin is not the first executive to express major concerns about crime’s impact on the city's business community nor the first to decamp for greener pastures — aerospace giant Boeing and equipment manufacturer Caterpillar also announced plans to leave the city in recent months.
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Boeing is moving to Arlington, VA and Caterpillar is moving to the Dallas-Fort Worth suburbs.
Note: - It's not like Denver is sitting on their thumbs; they are making an effort. RTD was recently in the news for adding to their Security detail with a focus on Union Station. It is frustrating to see all the money that 'crime' etc is costing the city but that's the world we live in, I guess. Without better 'low tolerance' boundaries it's hard to get ahead of things.