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The first task of this group is to interface with the Urban Drainage & Flood Control District, a multi-jurisdictional government agency which maintains the Westerly Creek waterway, and which is currently undertaking a study of its potential flood hazards.  The existing open channels and underground culverts of the study area need to be supplemented to alleviate the danger of flooding, and the study in progress appears to be headed toward recommending two alternatives.  One is to remove dwellings in the most hazardous portion of the floodplain for an at-grade “daylighted” channel.   The other is to build more underground culverts to contain potential floods.  The WCC firmly supports an at-grade solution, with a greenway and recreational trail that offer multiple benefits to the community. 

A possible third alternative is to “bank” the Urban Drainage funding component as a catalyst for a visionary developer, familiar with the affordable housing market.  A developer could use several tools including HUD funding, tax incentives, and working with willing sellers to implement both a greenway and housing redevelopment.  The WCC will hold a series of neighborhood outreach meetings to gain important public feedback held in May and early June.

This is an opportunity to create up to ten blocks of green space and an open water channel that will result in three positive benefits:  connect metro area trails and neighborhoods, jumpstart urban revitalization along East Colfax and create a public amenity for established neighborhoods. 

Please contact the Westerly Creek Connection citizen support group to learn more or to help at westerlycreek@gmail.com.

Larimer Square Partners, in conjunction with International Risk Group and Rite Place Management, will be bringing a similar mix of restaurants and retail that we see in LoDo to the Hangar 2 redevelopment.  The new mixed-use scenario was designed to address the concerns of the Landmark Preservation Commission, the unease expressed by public from previous designs, as well as the needs of the Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum.
 
Larimer Square Partners will develop approximately 20,000 square feet of attractive, commercial space extending back into the hangar.  In addition, density and traffic have often been cited as problem issues, minimized by the change from residential to office and self-storage space in the hangars interior. Rite Place Management will manage the operation with security, temperature controls, lighting and a 24-hour attendant.

Please visit lowrylink.com/groups/Hangar202/index.cfm  or contact Marcus Pachner at marcus@thepachnercompany.com  or (303) 825-671 for more information. 

When asbestos was found around Lowry, the expensive cost of remediation had to be settled before development could progress. The Air Force sought to transfer all remaining lands at Lowry, including the landfill.  Transferring the landfill to the LRA was problematic because any land owned by the LRA, including the landfill, would eventually revert to the City & County of Denver.  But the City Charter prohibits Denver from accepting any unfunded liabilities.  In fact, each strand in the chain of events of the landfill’s history was intended to protect Denver residents and taxpayers from unforeseen costs.

As such, the LRA selected International Risk Group (IRG) to complete environmental clean up at the base and assume any future liability associated with the site.  The landfill property was transferred to IRG as part of this remediation effort, and allows them to pursue development of the land.

The Feast on The FAX was created by The FAX Partnership to promote businesses on Colfax while providing residents of the surrounding neighborhoods and beyond an opportunity to become acquainted (or re-acquainted) with the diverse restaurant base along East Colfax. 

The event is presented in cooperation with Greater Park Hill, Bellevue-Hale, Mayfair Neighbors, Historic Montclair, and East Montclair neighborhood associations.  The Boards of these five neighborhood associations will be selling tickets to The Feast on The FAX and sharing the proceeds from those ticket sales.  Tickets can also be purchased at the start of the tour, at any of these five restaurants:  Africana Café/Fat City, Axum Ethiopian, Señor Pepe’s, Aquascalientes, or Bruno’s Saloon.

This year’s Feast sponsors include the Stapleton Foundation, Johnson & Wales University and National Jewish Medical & Research Center, as well as some FAX businesses such as Firehouse Animal Health Center, Walker-Dilworth Insurance and Mayfair Liquors.

Please visit feastonthefax.com  or call Jake Flint at (303) 321-3212 for more information.  See you on the FAX!