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Denver's got a variety of problems downtown, but so does pretty much every city — and I feel much more comfortable down there at night than I do in some places I travel to.<\/p>\n

I'm quite happy with my suburban home, but there's some alternate reality where a happy me also lives in a loft or condo somewhere in Denver's downtown and swears by it.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Downtown Denver is booming, but it is a tale of two cities<\/a>
\n Chris and Jennifer Livingston are part of a new wave in downtown Denver that has transformed the area over the past decade.\n <\/p>\n

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Denver's got a variety of problems downtown, but so does pretty much every city — and I feel much more comfortable down there at night than I do in some places I travel to. I'm quite happy with my suburban home, but there's some alternate reality where a happy me also lives in a loft … Continue reading “Denver”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131294,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/08\/17\/big-buildings-of-downtown-denver.html","url_meta":{"origin":39256,"position":0},"title":"Big Buildings of Downtown Denver","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 17-Aug-16 11:05pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been watching this one go up, but I had no idea of its eventual size. 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