Tag: Swansea
-
Denver to consider spending millions on infrastructure and transit
The Denver City Council will consider spending millions on infrastructure projects and transit options at its meeting Monday. Denver’s Jewell/Evans pedestrian and bike bridge project is set to receive a $2.6 million contract that will kick start construction. The project will offer pedestrians and bikers a route across south Santa Fe Drive and generally connect…
-
EPA fines Denver slaughterhouse for Clean Air Act violations
Superior Farms owner to modernize equipment above code requirements.
-
Denver City Council approves $24.3M to turn homeless hotel into housing navigation center
—
by
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A homeless hotel in Denver will become a housing navigation center for people who have been homeless for an extended period of time or who have “complex needs” after the Denver City Council approved a pair of grant agreements with the state Department of Local…
-
Tepeyac Community Health Center begins fresh food program in east Denver neighborhoods
Tepeyac is teaming up with The GrowHaus for fresh food initiative, serving over 300 families
-
New Swansea park marks end to major construction on I-70
Sixty-one years ago, in 1961, construction of Interstate 70 through the heart of the Swansea-Elyria neighborhoods began, destroying 31 houses and further dividing a community that has existed since the late 1800s in the process. The Colorado Department of Transportation on Wednesday officially opened the 4-acre cover park over I-70, reuniting the north and south sides…
-
Colorado Interstate 70 project keeps driving forward despite opposition from neighborhood
The Central 70 Project, a $1.2 billion undertaking that has left the north Denver neighborhoods of Globeville/Elyria-Swansea in a state of constant noise and construction for four years, has been contentious from its beginning. In 2008, the Interstate 70 viaduct was declared structurally deficient and functionally obsolete; but it was nearly three decades earlier when…
-
NEWS | Denver’s Central 70 project is troubling residents
The Colorado Department of Transportation’s massive project to reconstruct a 10-mile stretch of Interstate 70 is creating concerns for nearby residents in the Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods. (Video by Skyler Ballard & Katie Klann)