{"id":51781,"date":"2015-07-18T11:29:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-18T17:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/18\/fiddling-with-the-16th-street-mall.html"},"modified":"2015-07-25T11:58:36","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T17:58:36","slug":"fiddling-with-the-16th-street-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/07\/18\/fiddling-with-the-16th-street-mall.html","title":{"rendered":"Fiddling with the 16th Street Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denver's 16th Street Mall is a pretty cool place, a remarkable success story in terms of revitalizing downtown shopping, dining, and transit. It's length is open only to pedestrians and free busses that run between Union Station and the Civic Center Station. While I've been working in downtown, I've always been amazed by its vitality.<\/p>\n

Apparently, though, vitality is not enough. Planners want to get people to linger.<\/i> The question is, can they do that without screwing up the success?<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/news\/ci_28503640\/study-revitalize-denvers-mall-seeks-linger-factor<\/a><\/p>\n

During the weekday, the mall is highly active with commuters (early morning and evening) and pedstrians from the downtown area or the convention center. But planners are concerns that people are going to<\/i> one place or another, and not just hanging out on the various benches along the way, and on the weekends and at night it's often a much quieter place.<\/p>\n

The problem is, if you're looking for something more, how do you do it? Do you get rid of the busses, as some are proposing. That's fine, except it pulls some of the bus traffic onto less convenient parallel streets. What will compel people to sit and chat with others, or just take in some sun, and can you somehow make<\/i> that happen? What demographic are you going for, and what do you do about the demographic that already has time to sit around on the mall?<\/p>\n

I'm happy that there's discussion of what to do to make the mall even more of a success story than it is, but I worry about the conflicting needs of retail owners, entertainment and dining owners, commuters, residents, locals, and folk who come in and out of town each day for work.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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