Huge Denver redevelopment highlights potential, limits of McKee's NorthSide proposal
Located about 15 minutes from downtown Denver, which can be seen in the distance, Stapleton is a 4,700-acre planned community of 30,000 residents built on the site of Denver's Stapleton International Airport. The airport was founded in 1929 and in 1964 officially changed its name to Stapleton International Airport. (Handout)ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
DENVER — You don't get many chances to remake a big chunk of an old city. But at an abandoned airport on the east side of Denver, they're doing just that.It's called Stapleton, and although only half completed, it is already the largest urban redevelopment project in the United States. When finished, it will have 10,000 new homes spread across seven square miles. Vast parks. New jobs. A walkable, sustainable community for the 21st century, stitched seamlessly into the tired, troubled blocks around it. Sound familiar?Indeed, Stapleton is Model A for what developer Paul McKee says he wants to do in St. Louis, where he has reached a deal with city officials to rebuild a Forest Park-sized chunk of the near north side. From architecture to green space to the mix of jobs and housing, the Denver project is guiding plans for NorthSide, McKee said. He has even hired one of Stapleton's chief visionaries as his lead planner."It's the closest pattern we can find anywhere in the country to what we're doing," McKee said
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