Lakewood Residents Fight Planned Luxury Apartments by Belmar Park
The complex would go up right by parkland in the Denver suburb, but because the plan is within zoning, Lakewood officials say there's nothing they can do.
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The complex would go up right by parkland in the Denver suburb, but because the plan is within zoning, Lakewood officials say there's nothing they can do.
Denver Post readers sound off on a proposed apartment project near Lakewood's Belmar Park and Donald Trump being struck from Colorado's primary ballot
We are not convinced demolishing an existing two-story 43,000 square-foot office space and the surrounding parking lots to build a five-story 412-unit condominium poses an actual threat to either the wildlife or the recreation at Belmar Park.
Denver Arts & Venues closed on its $30 million purchase of the Loretto Heights theater, library and other parcels on Aug. 31 -- about two weeks the public can see the project's first designs.
When History Colorado recently published its long-sealed registry of local Ku Klux Klan membership from the 1920s, it blood-tied two longtime Denver cultural institutions to the most vile supremacy group in American history. And they did not duck, cover, spin or pivot. Instead, they chose radical transparency. The 1,300-page roster included George Figgis, the first director of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, who was a dues-paying member of the KKK while running the museum from 1910 to 1935. It also included Robert Stanton, brother of eventual Bonfils-Stanton Foundation founder Charle...