REAL ESTATE
DPO delivers permitting improvements and innovations in its first year
The DPO was announced April 14, 2025, and launched a month later to coordinate and oversee plan review and permitting for private development in the City and County of Denver—work that spans across seven city departments. Since then, the office has identified and addressed pain points in the development process and pushed to provide more information and greater transparency to customers as they navigate rules and regulations on building and starting businesses in Denver. Additionally, the percentage of on-time permit reviews has increased from 57 percent in 2023 to 88 percent in 2026.
https://denvergov.org/Government/Agencies-Departments-Offices/Agencies-Departments-Offices-Directory/Community-Planning-and-Development/CPD-News-and-Events/CPD-News/2026/Denver-Permitting-Office-first-anniversary
Data Center Nation: How All Of America Became Big Tech’s Boomtown
While communities debate their future role in the digital infrastructure build-out, the data center boom is happening right before their eyes. Tech giants like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Meta are investing hundreds of billions of dollars to build out their artificial intelligence infrastructure and are racing to get projects under construction as fast as they can. Just as the 19th century’s wave of industrialization transformed bucolic communities across the U.S. into hubs of factories and infrastructure, this second industrial revolution is encroaching on areas where the scale of the industrial build-out Big Tech is pursuing was unimaginable until now.
https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/data-center-development/data-center-math-special-project-133721
How Smart Infrastructure Is Reshaping Modern Cities
The scale of IoT infrastructure deployment in urban environments has grown dramatically over the past decade. Smart streetlight systems—which monitor foot traffic, ambient light levels, and air quality while delivering energy-efficient illumination—are now operating across hundreds of cities. Environmental sensor networks measuring air quality, noise levels, and temperature at block-by-block resolution provide data that was previously available only from sparse monitoring stations. Structural health monitoring systems embedded in bridges, tunnels, and aging urban infrastructure continuously assess the condition of assets that would otherwise be inspected only periodically.
https://www.bpcmag.com/blog/how-smart-infrastructure-is-reshaping-modern-cities/
Eye of the Beholder – Representatives from other cities are flocking to Denver. Their souvenir? Inspiration.
ULI, a global organization made up of mostly real estate and land use experts, was one of several groups that visited Denver last year. Their aim? To discuss how the city is redesigning downtown life after the pandemic and to see those strategies in action. Their largely impressed reactions to Denver might surprise area residents and business leaders with a dour view of the city center’s rebound. The Denver Business Journal interviewed the leaders of some of these groups to learn what, in their eyes, the Mile High City’s downtown is getting right.
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2026/03/27/denver-downtown-recovery-visitors.html
Denver sports teams plan 500 acres of stadium-anchored development
But no new taxes have been raised — or even suggested — to fund any of the stadium developments. The paradigm has shifted public stadium funding, Demoff said. Instead of cities paying for stadiums, which resulted in teams losing control over what happened in and around their homes, teams now commit to building the stadiums themselves if the public helps with infrastructure. “It’s a more equitable trade,” he said. “Public money now goes to things the public uses: transportation, infrastructure, parking — some of those things that truly make the experience better — while privatizing some of the other elements of building development, which happen faster and maybe a little bit easier with grand vision.”
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2026/04/17/denver-stadium-city-broncos-kroenke-sports-summit.html?ana=emailafriend
State reveals purchase price for Denver Broncos stadium site, deal closing deadline
The football franchise and the state entity that owns the 58.5 acres where the stadium would be built recently negotiated a sale agreement with a $45.8 million purchase price. The Broncos will pay less for the land than the state paid in 2021 when the Colorado Department of Transportation, through the Colorado Transportation Investment Office, bought the parcel from Union Pacific Railroad for $50 million. However, the price is equal to the remaining principal on CTIO’s loan, according to a purchase and sale agreement presented to the CTIO board.
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2026/03/25/denver-broncos-cdot-burnham-yard-price.html
Xcel releases new plan to charge data centers for its power — and reduce bill impacts for Coloradans
Xcel’s plan would require large customers to pay for the enormous new infrastructure they require, whether that’s new power plants or overhead transmission lines. “We’re having these customers pay for all their generation and all their transmission,” said Jack Ihle, Xcel’s vice president of data centers and large loads. “So that should really prevent any sort of rate impact on other customers.” There are already 56 data centers in Colorado, according to the commercial Data Center Map, with many more proposed or under construction — part of a construction boom across the West. By requiring a higher upfront investment, Xcel’s proposal may also tamp down on speculation by data center developers, who often shop deals in different states.
https://www.cpr.org/2026/04/07/xcel-colorado-data-center-power-prices/
Colorado River supply forecast melts after March heat wave
Cody Moser with the federal Colorado Basin River Forecast Center said in a monthly briefing Tuesday that just 1.4 million acre feet of Colorado River water is expected to reach Lake Powell through July. That’s less than a quarter of what’s considered normal.
It’s also much lower than the 2.3 million acre feet Moser’s office projected a month ago, before the heat wave in the West melted away an already meager supply of snowpack.
https://www.cpr.org/2026/04/08/colorado-river-supply-melts-march-heat/
Embrey moves to demolish Harker Heights, site of largest Denver fire in 30 years
Embrey, the Texas-based real estate investor and developer in charge of the project, applied for a demolition permit from the city this week, public records show. The permit application said most of the building completely burned down, with a few sections still standing. “EMBREY has applied for a demolition permit to clean up the site,” Jeff Cowart, spokesperson for Embrey, said in an emailed statement to the Denver Business Journal. “The future of the site continues to be evaluated,” he said. “Our desire is to rebuild if the final evaluation supports that.”
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2026/02/20/embrey-apartment-fire-demolition-rebuild-denver.html
River access in Colorado has been contentious for a half century. Legislators are still stymied.
A river access advocacy group is splintered. Landowners are organized to protect a decades-old “float but don’t touch” decree. And lawmakers, halfway through the legislative session, have yet to take up any bill that would change that state’s murky rules around recreational access to the state’s waterways. As a short and dry river season takes shape after a snow-starved winter, it appears the status quo will hold. But passions are roiling at Colorado’s uniquely volatile confluence of property rights, recreational pressures and river safety.
https://coloradosun.com/2026/04/07/river-access-right-to-float/
Baby boomers have an emerging rival in the housing market
Redfin notes that the higher number for “empty-nest baby boomers” is “underscoring a mismatch between who has space and who needs it.” The divergence is less about individual faults and more about a lack of inventory across the board, coupled with higher mortgage rates, according to Redfin. Essentially, there aren’t enough large homes on the market for the millennial families who need them, Redfin reports, in part because in some areas of the country, there aren’t enough small, reasonably priced homes for older Americans to downsize into. Meanwhile, home prices and mortgage rates remain relatively high, pricing families out of the housing market entirely in many parts of the country.
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2026/04/09/baby-boomer-millennial-housing-home-market-buy.html
Water Infrastructure Gap Is Reshaping U.S. Industrial Growth
The issue is not whether water exists. Most U.S. industrial regions have water. The issue is whether local systems can source it, treat it, move it, and discharge it at the scale that modern industrial demand requires. Across much of the country, the answer is uneven in ways that only become visible once a project is already in motion. The U.S. is in the middle of a significant industrial expansion cycle, driven by reshoring commitments, energy transition infrastructure, data center buildout, and logistics investment. The water systems underlying that expansion were largely built for a different era and a different scale of demand.
https://environmentenergyleader.com/stories/water-infrastructure-gap-is-reshaping-us-industrial-growth,121760
Moody’s: Office Vacancy Hits 21% In Q1, Another Record High
The industry is navigating an “increasingly complex set of crosscurrents,” including renewed inflationary pressure, resilient high-income consumer spending and restrained office leasing demand that will likely keep CRE performance uneven in the near term, per Moody’s Analytics CRE Preliminary Trend Analysis for Q1 2026. The 21% office vacancy rate is up 10 basis points from the previous quarter and up 60 bps from the previous year. The new vacancy rate is 4% higher than the 17% vacancy rate recorded in 2020 at the start of the pandemic.
https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/office/moodys-office-vacancy-hits-21-in-q1-another-record-high-133979
Office-To-Resi Conversions Up 28% From Last Year’s Record Levels
At the start of 2026, 90,300 apartments were in the process of conversion from office space nationwide, a 28% increase from 70,600 at the same time last year. Office conversions now account for 47% of future adaptive reuse projects nationwide, according to a new RentCafe report. The number of units underway at the start of 2026 was almost four times the roughly 23,000 units being converted in 2022. Part of the reason for this conversion boom is looming loan maturities. Roughly $213B in office loans — about a third of all U.S. office loans — are coming due by the end of this year, and those borrowers will need to pay them off or refinance them, Yardi Matrix senior analyst and Manager of Business Intelligence Doug Ressler said in a news release.
https://www.bisnow.com/national/news/adaptive-reuse/office-resi-conversions-up-28-percent-from-last-year-record-levels-133841
Office conversions surge as workplace dynamics shift
Those declining office values are key for making conversion projects work. The needs of an apartment building (in particular, an exterior wall for every unit) and the cost of such projects have made conversions difficult in the past, even if they were conceptually appealing as a dual solution to housing supply and unused offices. “What’s important is understanding what has actually changed,” said Sergii Starostin, CEO of co-living operator Outpost Group. “It’s not that conversions suddenly became easy or inherently profitable. They didn’t. What has shifted is pricing. Distressed office assets trading at steep discounts have effectively reset the basis, and that’s what’s unlocking deals today.”
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2026/04/14/office-conversion-wells-fargo-golf-supply-woes.html
Smaller Denver Cannabis Growers Closing, Freeing Up Warehouses
Not all spaces are in the same position. Larger buildings are able to leverage scale to keep their profits up, but smaller buildings don’t have the same capability, setting up a shift for a portion of the industrial properties into which cultivators expanded so rapidly more than a decade ago. “So these smaller spaces, like 5K SF to 10K SF, it’s really hard to make money there,” said John Wickens, founder of Six Chair Blue, a cannabis-specific commercial real estate brokerage.
https://www.bisnow.com/denver/news/cannabis/smaller-denver-cannabis-growers-closing-freeing-industrial-space-133954
The U.S. is short 10 million houses. A new White House report lays out a blueprint to fix that
The analysis, part of the Economic Report of the President, outlines both a political risk and a messaging opportunity for President Donald Trump, whose public approval has slumped because of concerns about his tariffs, the Iran war and his unfulfilled promises to slash inflation and unleash stronger growth. Trump signed two executive orders in March directing federal agencies to reduce housing regulatory burdens and make it easier for smaller banks to provide mortgages but he’s been slow to take other steps that would show that high housing costs are a top priority for his administration.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-u-s-is-short-10-million-houses-a-new-white-house-report-lays-out-a-blueprint-to-fix-that
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
The bottom rung is missing from America’s housing ladder. The ROOM Act can replace it.
This isn’t because the demand for spartan housing vanished or the underlying economics stopped making sense, but because, over the course of several decades in the 20th century, we legislated this housing type out of existence. By the 1980s, SROs were more or less a relic. Since then, urban homelessness has become more intractable, rates of domestic migration have declined, and household formation has slowed as rents for existing housing continue to climb.
https://www.niskanencenter.org/the-bottom-rung-is-missing-from-americas-housing-ladder-the-room-act-can-replace-it/
Most Colorado cities could lose access to affordable housing funding next year. Lawmakers are racing to fix it
The problem stems from a provision in the 2022 ballot measure that was designed to hold local governments accountable for increasing the supply of affordable housing. To remain eligible for the $350 million a year that the measure generates, cities and counties must show that they’re increasing their local supply of affordable housing by 3% a year. But housing advocates — including those who wrote the ballot measure — say the requirement approved by voters has proved impossible for some communities to meet.
https://www.cpr.org/2026/04/07/proposition-123-impact-affordable-housing-funding-colorado/
Trump Tax Law’s Affordable Housing Boost Hits Snag
The expansion has eroded the value of the tax credits, which developers and other LIHTC participants like to sell to companies looking to reduce their tax bills — now that there are more credits available for sale, they cost less. And even more crucially, it’s led to challenges in securing financing for deals involving the credits. Banks face a cap on so-called “public welfare investments” as a percentage of their regulatory capital. That means the lenders large enough to finance major projects are limited in how many such housing developments they can back.
https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/trump-tax-law-expansion-affordable-120000951.html
Annual Rent Cuts Continue Across 65 Large U.S. Apartment Markets
For perspective, the national year-over-year average cut in the U.S. was a mild 0.4%, according to data from RealPage Market Analytics. That decline marked the seventh consecutive month of annual rent cuts across the nation. It also marked a slowdown from the year-ago reading in February 2025 when prices increased 0.8%. ~ More than 40% of the top 150 U.S. apartment markets cut effective asking rents in the year-ending February 2026. Operators across the U.S. cut rents 0.1% to 11.8% in 65 apartment markets. Constrained performance went beyond just small markets to hit 27 of the top 50 markets.
https://www.realpage.com/analytics/rent-cuts-year-ending-february/
Treasury, IRS provide guidance to States for nominating census tracts as qualified opportunity zones under the One, Big, Beautiful Bill
The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service today issued guidance to the Chief Executive Officers of any State, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories regarding the procedure for nominating population census tracts to be designated as qualified opportunity zones (QOZs) under the One, Big, Beautiful Bill. “Under President Trump’s leadership, the Working Families Tax Cuts permanently renewed and strengthened Opportunity Zones, giving investors, entrepreneurs, and local leaders the long-term certainty they need to commit capital to communities that have been overlooked for too long,” said Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. “This guidance is an important next step to continue driving private capital into productive investment, job creation, and opportunity to local communities across America.”
https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/treasury-irs-provide-guidance-to-states-for-nominating-census-tracts-as-qualified-opportunity-zones-under-the-one-big-beautiful-bill
The HOA effect on the housing market is growing
Despite the costs, HOA residents by and large say the rules are fair, with 86% of the LendingTree respondents saying the rules are “somewhat reasonable,” while 70% say the fees “are justified given the benefits they receive.” However, 62% said HOA rules have limited how they can use or enjoy their home, and 46% said they have been fined or warned by their HOA. The findings also indicate that people who currently do not live with an HOA are unlikely to make the jump to an HOA-governed property, with 73% of homeowners not living in an HOA saying they would be unlikely to choose a home with an HOA if they were buying today.
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2026/04/02/hoa-fees-growing-housing-cost.html
Gov. Polis signs bill letting schools and universities bypass some zoning rules to build housing
The bill requires local governments with populations over 2,000 people to allow qualifying organizations to build residential units on their land whether or not the land is zoned for residential construction, starting in 2028. Other than schools, colleges and universities, qualifying organizations include transit agencies, public housing authorities and nonprofits that have a proven history of building new housing.
https://www.cpr.org/2026/03/26/polis-bill-schools-bypass-zoning-rules/
Converting Obsolete Offices to Small Co-Living Apartments Could Help Ease U.S. Housing Shortage
Because of efficient sizes and lower conversion costs, co-living microapartments can be rented at prices that are affordable to people who earn half or less of the area median income—from about $700 a month in Houston and Albuquerque to $1,000 a month in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Washington, D.C. These rents are significantly lower than current housing options. Working with Turner Construction Company, Gensler found that small co-living apartments could be developed for $123,300 to $238,700 each, including acquisition, design, construction, furnishing, and, where needed, seismic retrofitting. In all but one city—Houston—costs ranged from one-third to half the price of developing new traditional studio apartments, which often run $400,000 each in large, high-cost cities.
https://www.pew.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2026/03/24/converting-obsolete-offices-to-small-co-living-apartments-could-help-ease-us-housing-shortage
REAL ESTATE AND MOBILITY
Denver sports teams bet on transit as they prepare new stadiums
Each of the three teams plans to alter or de-emphasize parking within their developments compared to what exists now. Denver Summit FC plans not to include dedicated stadium parking at all. As a result, each team is working with the Denver-metro area’s transit agency, RTD, to navigate bus and light rail access. The Broncos may also build a new Front Range Passenger Rail stop in their development, Leech teased. In addition to transit, the NFL team plans to add a parking structure containing about 6,500 to 7,000 spaces in the future development around the stadium. When the stadium opens, projected to occur during the 2031 NFL season, the parking will comprise surface lots then transition to structured parking later on in the development timeline, something Leech said opens up new questions for the team.
https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2026/04/16/denver-broncos-summit-ball-arena-parking-rail.html
Do you understand this billboard? If not, that’s the whole point
The difference between this messaging and that of a traditional billboard campaign is intent. “Traditional campaigns often try to clearly explain a product to a defined audience,” said Outfront Media’s west region senior marketing director, Christine Rose. “These cryptic tech ads assume the audience already understands the context, and rely on shared language, inside jokes, or cultural cues, rather than specific messaging.”
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/18/nx-s1-5746115/billboards-san-francisco-tech-ai-advertising-marketing
India’s Airport Cities: A Prototype for the Next Generation of Urban Development
India’s aviation sector is expanding at remarkable speed. New airports are emerging across the country, and with them comes a significant opportunity: large-scale landside developments that could redefine how Indian cities grow. These landside districts can include office campuses, hospitality, retail, logistics hubs, entertainment venues, residential neighborhoods, and public parks, effectively forming entirely new urban quarters at the edge of cities. At a scale rarely available in dense metropolitan cores, they offer a rare opportunity: to design infrastructure, mobility, and urban life in tandem.
https://www.gensler.com/blog/india-airport-cities-prototype-urban-development
BART Monetizes Empty Parking With New Online Leasing Tool
Oakland, California’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officials say the agency has generated $6 million in new revenue since the pandemic by leasing its underutilized parking lots to companies seeking daytime parking. BART began offering select parking lots to non-BART riders to generate new revenue to help address its FY27 $376M operating budget deficit brought on by remote work. To streamline the process and attract more business, BART recently launched a new online portal for those looking to rent at least 25 spaces for six months or more. Interest to date has come from local businesses looking for employee and fleet vehicle parking.
https://www.metro-magazine.com/news/bart-monetizes-empty-parking-with-new-online-leasing-tool
MOBILITY
Bustang has been a success for some Colorado travelers. So why is it riding toward a financial cliff?
Public transit couldn’t charge enough to break even when times were good, analysts note, and then COVID came along in 2020 and wiped out the commuting patterns and transit habits of millions of Americans. Agencies like RTD lost millions of passenger trips and still haven’t recovered. Older system designs of sending buses and trains along spokes to downtown hubs for office workers may never be fully workable again.
https://coloradosun.com/2026/04/01/bustang-colorado-service-deficits-future-funding/
A New Life for America’s Shuttered Pharmacies
While the stand-alone nature will shift desirability for some tenants, these junior box formats fill a size category that is increasingly scarce amid a national shift toward smaller format retail development. Location is their enduring strength. Pharmacies have historically targeted corner parcels at traffic lights with strong visibility, high daily car counts, accessible curb cuts, and proximity to rooftops. Many serve as shadow anchors in strip centers or stand-alone pads fronting grocery anchored retail. Simply put, these are the types of sites that an expanding retailer wants but increasingly struggles to find in a low construction, high-cost environment.
https://urbanland.uli.org/development-and-construction/the-second-life-of-americas-shuttered-pharmacies
Collision Course: The Fight for Denver’s E-Scooter Contract Is Getting Ugly
The city’s shared micromobility program has grown into one of the largest in the nation since e-scooters arrived on Denver’s streets in 2018. Today, only two scooter companies are permitted to rent out the popular (and lucrative) vehicles in Denver: Lime and Bird. But that may soon change. In December, the Denver Department of Transportation & Infrastructure selected a new company, Veo, to take over the city’s scooter operations in 2026. While the current companies have seen great success in expanding ridership and running a world-leading equity program, they’ve also failed to address the unintended side effects. Despite pleas from residents and city leadership, their scooters continue to block sidewalks, facilitate illegal riding, and lead to increasingly frequent deaths and injuries.
https://www.westword.com/news/denver-e-scooter-provider-battle-40866170/
The Great Travel Meltdown of 2026
Travelers may be complaining, fretting, and catastrophizing, but so far, at least, they are doggedly proceeding with their plans. Airlines report that people are paying the higher ticket prices, and that the industry is seeing record levels of revenue. If Americans can go to Europe this summer, they will go to Europe this summer. And Europe (plus people from many other places) will come here. More than 1 million international travelers are expected to attend the World Cup. Matches will be held in several of the cities that have had the longest security lines, including Houston and Atlanta, and the final will be hosted in the New York–New Jersey area, which is home to the worst airport in America.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/04/summer-travel-chaos-airports/686753/
The City Where Traffic Fatalities Vanished
Prior to Bhalla’s time in office, Hoboken started strictly enforcing New Jersey’s statewide “daylighting” policy, which bans cars from parking within 25 feet of intersections to improve visibility and boost driver response time. But high demand for parking and pressure to protect already-limited spaces meant enforcement was challenging. “If there’s not something blocking them, they’ll just park there,” says Gregory Francese, who directs Hoboken’s Vision Zero program. “Hoboken would need […] enforcement out there at all times, at every intersection, which is very difficult to impossible.” So Hoboken used a variety of physical deterrents such as inexpensive, waist-high plastic posts to prevent parking in forbidden spots, even temporarily. Some intersection-adjacent spaces were converted into wider sidewalks.
https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-city-where-traffic-fatalities-vanished/
Colorado’s future Front Range passenger train has a name, and yes, it’s a little silly
The line is expected to run from Fort Collins to Pueblo, with stops in cities and regions like Loveland, Longmont, Boulder, Louisville, Broomfield, Westminster, Denver, Littleton, Douglas County, Colorado Springs and Trinidad. It will use existing tracks shared with freight railroads and could eventually connect Colorado to the neighboring states of New Mexico and Wyoming. Officials say the first phase of service — running between Denver and Fort Collins — is expected to launch in 2029, with additional service south toward Pueblo coming a few years later, depending on funding.
https://www.cpr.org/2026/04/06/front-range-passenger-rail-name-colorado-connector-coco/
State says it has reached tentative agreements that could build Denver to Boulder passenger train
Passengers would depart from Denver’s Union Station on the RTD B line to Westminster, and then connect to the BNSF line to go on to stops in Broomfield, Louisville, Boulder, Longmont, Loveland, and Fort Collins. Kaufmann said the total one-time estimated $333 million cost is for three daily round trips between Denver and Fort Collins, and is about half as expensive as the initial projections. The annual operating fee would be around $30 million. She said the one-time costs are significantly lower because of how the train schedule is designed and the fact that state and regional entities are coordinating rather than running separate services. ~ The Denver to Fort Collins section is meant to be the first phase of the larger Front Range Passenger Rail line that will connect Pueblo, Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins, and smaller cities in between.
https://www.cpr.org/2026/04/08/tentative-agreements-denver-boulder-passenger-train/
Colorado reaches agreement with BNSF for Denver-Fort Collins passenger trains
Under the state’s plan, Amtrak, long viewed as the likely operator of the intercity Colorado Connector, would operate the preliminary joint service. Sal Pace, general manager of the Front Range Passenger Rail District, said Thursday that while the starter service would be able to “stand on its own” financially, it would also be a springboard for a full build-out of the Colorado Connector system. Pace told lawmakers earlier this year that the district would “aim for a 2026 ballot measure” to fund the full service through a sales tax increase.
https://coloradonewsline.com/2026/04/09/denver-fort-collins-passenger-trains/
Multiscale Analysis of Pedestrian Crossing Distance
Quantifying pedestrian crossing distance at the scale of entire municipalities empowers transportation planners to identify pedestrian-hostile crossings (individuals and clusters), add context to collision trends, and geographically target locations for traffic calming. These cases collectively demonstrate how the increasing prioritization of the automobile in city planning quantitatively changes (and degrades) the pedestrian environment, as well as how low-tech investments, such as sidewalk extensions and refuge islands, can mitigate these trends.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01944363.2024.2394610#abstract
Denver’s $1 billion road overhaul would cut space for cars, boost public transit. Critics say it will make traffic worse.
City transportation officials began the work a decade ago with pilot projects. They made traffic calming an official policy around 2020 and, three years later, adopted a plan. Scores of projects have been done, and the $280 million reconstruction of East Colfax Avenue with Bus Rapid Transit is scheduled for completion next year. The bulk of the projects are still in planning and design but should mostly be done by 2032. While proponents say changes have made streets safer, critics suspect projects that reduce space for cars will only make traffic congestion worse — even after the construction disruptions end.
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/03/29/denver-traffic-calming-road-projects/
Modelling car dependence: Pathways to sustainable urban mobility
The observed outcome of the present study demonstrates that short trips are associated with lower car dependence (car ownership and frequency of car use), particularly for non-work destinations (e.g., educational institutions, hospitals, supermarkets). However, employed individuals exhibit higher car dependence, likely due to workplace commuting demands. Car ownership emerges as the critical mediator, shaping travel patterns for age, employment, household size, income, education, and residential location.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026427512600212X
How DIA keeps TSA security lines at 12 minutes as other airports see hours-long wait times
In Denver, a $2.1 billion overhaul of the signature white tent-topped main terminal included a security checkpoints makeover. DIA contractors installed 34 security screening lanes using the latest Artificial Intelligence-powered systems that allow passengers to keep laptops in their bags and facial recognition technology to speed processing. These replaced 42 old-style lanes. TSA teams can screen 180 to 240 passengers an hour per lane.
https://www.denverpost.com/2026/03/24/dia-tsa-security-wait-times/
