Seven teams are vying for the opportunity to shape downtown Denver over the next 25 years.
The City and County of Denver and the Downtown Denver Partnership, the nonprofit organization that operates the 16th Street Mall, are expected to select a consultant to develop a downtown plan as early as next month.
The plan aims at plotting growth through 2030.
Denver’s last downtown plan was completed in 1986. Of the 16 recommendations included in the original plan, all but one – redeveloping a city-owned property at 14th and Larimer streets now controlled by developers Richard “Buzz” Geller and David Paderski – have been achieved, said co-director Will Fleissig.
Teams vying for the new plan are:
EDAW, David Owen Tryba Architects, Shears Adkins Architects and Fehr & Peers, all of Denver; Vancouver, British Columbia-based Urbanics Consultants Ltd.; and Berkeley, Calif.-based Economic Strategies.
Alex Garvin and Associates of New York and Davis Partnership of Denver.
Baltimore-based RTKL; and Leland Consulting and Kimley-Horn, both of Denver.
Berkeley, Calif.-based MIG, Denver-based Progressive Urban Management Associates, Denver-based Urbantrans Consultants Inc. and Carl Walker Inc. of Tempe, Ariz.
Atlanta-based Cooper Carry: The Center for Connective Architecture and the Denver firms Civitas, Cindy Christianson, Matrix Design Group and Ross Consulting Group.
Cambridge, Mass.-based Chan Krieger and Associates and the Denver firms Design Workshop, Economic and Planning Systems, Fehr & Peers and Christensen Consulting.
Toronto-based Urban Strategies Inc., Denver-based IBI Group, Denver-based David Evans and Associates and Belle Mead, N.J.-based A. Nelessen Associates.
