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Hi Everyone! This is Bill Spriggs and I have found several news articles, links and blogs that I wanted to share along THE BACK FENCE & beyond in this Wednesday Edition, Sep 12 2012. |
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West Corridor, Denver & Region
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HuffintingPost
Denver's Achievement in Connecting Jobs, Affordable Housing and Transportation
By Melinda Pollack, Sep 10, 2012 In 2004 Denver region voters approved an ambitious plan to expand the regional public transit system with new lines opening across the area. Before and since the passage, working families across the Denver region earning between $20,000 and $55,000 have been spending an average of 59 percent of their gross household income on housing and transportation combined.
READ MORE... [OK, there's 226 days until the opening of the W line, but that also means we have traveled over 2,900 days since voters approved FasTracks in November 2004. Here's a YouTube video that is a series of before and after photos of the West Rail Line's construction - great set of photos! - and you can boogie down with the music!]  | | RTD West Rail Line Before and After Photos |
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National
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Vive la Révolution:
A Cycling Renaissance is Taking Place in America
September 08 2012 More and more Americans are taking to the road on two wheels. Between 1977 and 2009 the total number of annual bike trips more than tripled, while the bike's share of all trips rose from 0.6% to 1%. Commuting cyclists have also increased in number, with twice as many biking to work in 2009 as in 2000
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HuffingtonPost
Want Families Downtown? Design for Them!
By Brent Toberian, Sep 07, 2012
A few months back, Toronto's Deputy Mayor started a political flap stating on the floor of city council that downtown was no place to raise kids. "Where's little Ginny? Well, she's downstairs playing in the traffic on her way to the park," he said.READ MORE...
TheAtlanticCities
The Next Big Question Facing Cities: Will Millennials Stay?
By Rolf Pendall, Sep 11 2012
Millennials living in cities have started putting down roots in urban neighborhoods.USAToday
In Portland, Ore., Bikes Rule the Road
By Elizabeth Weise, Sept 10, 2012
Now, with many cities in gridlock, one-third of the population obese and climate change forcing innovators to look beyond the internal combustion engine, cities are beginning to rethink that push toward the automobile.READ MORE...TheAtlanticCities
Concrete Ideas for Promoting Walkability
By Kaid Benfield, Sep 10, 2012 I recently came across two fantastic resources for making communities more walkable. One is a program, the other a compendium of highly useful educational and technical information. They come from the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center and the Walkable and Livable Communities Institute, respectively.READ MORE...DC.StreetsBlog
How Highway Spending Could Become as Transparent as Bike/Ped Spending
By Tanya Snyder, Sep 11 2012
"There's an inverse proportion of the size of a transportation program to the amount of transparency"...While anyone can easily find in granular detail anything they would ever want to know about where bike/ped money goes, and they can get a pretty good idea of what's going on with transit capital investments, highway spending is a black box - and that's 80 percent of U.S. transportation dollars.
TheAtlanticCities
The Geography of Business Density
By Richard Florida, Sep 10, 2012 As urban living becomes ever-more crowded and compact, cities are increasingly seen as a fundamental driver of progress and prosperity.READ MORE...Salon
Dems swamp the GOP in urban areas, but act embarrassed of the progressive values that make cities great.
READ MORE...BurghDiaspora.BlogSpot
Suburbia Is Dying
By Jim Russell, Sept 10, 2012
"If you want to attract and retain that young, highly educated workforce, you want to be in the center of where things are happening... a lot of companies are deciding they want to be part of the energy and the creativity that's there. As startups and companies compete for talent, being downtown has become a competitive advantage."
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GristDotOrg
Stacey Champion Took on the Tea Party - and Won
By Greg Hanscom, Sep 06, 2012
Imagine living someplace where the political hijinks are so outlandish that people refuse to believe that they're really happening. Stacey Champion lives in just such a place. It's called Arizona
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Wednesday's Film (when available)
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Things you need to know along the West Corridor
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>Lakewood, Wed., Sep 12 7:30am to 8:30am
Ward 2 Lakewood City Council members, Cindy Baroway & Scott Koop will meet with residents and respectful guests for their monthly outreach meeting. The future light rail line runs across the NW section of their Ward.
40 West Arts District Office, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood, Co. 80214
>Lakewood, Sat., Sep 15 9am to close.
Ward 1 Lakewood City Council members, Karen Kellen & Ramey Johnson will meet with residents and respectful guests for their monthly outreach meeting
. The future light rail line runs across the northern section of their Ward. 40 West Arts District Office, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood, Co. 80214.
Denver Union Station
Construction Cam
Wish You Could Find an Apartment/Condo near a Light Rail Station? As part of TBF's continuing efforts to bring TOD's to the West Corridor & elsewhere, this link from Walk Score.com will now be a permanent feature. Thanks.
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Commercial Real Estate Assemblages, Land or Buildings Available on The West Corridor
Please note: TBF does not
own or sell any real property.
Prices displayed may not be correct.
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>3415 West Colfax Ave TOD Assemblage
>4917 West 11th Ave Assemblage [sold]
Sold, See Press Release
>10th Avenue Light Rail Assemblage
>1010 Sheridan Blvd TOD Site
>5310 West 10th Ave TOD opportunity
>13th Avenue & Newland St., Light Rail Vacant Land
>5830 West Colfax Ave
>1025 Ammons Complex
>6990 West Colfax Ave Pad Site
THE BACK FENCE supports a corridor wide, regional vision, with individual nodes of unique "places" within that corridor. We hope that the listing of commercial properties available will help to speed this vision to fruition sooner. Learn more about this vision below from the Center for Transit-Oriented Development.
West Corridor Vision
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Things You Need to Know Around the Region
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 Saturday, Sept 15, 2012 Calling all Cyclists in Golden, Lakewood, west Denver, and the Denver Region. The RTD FasTracks West Rail Line which will serve our West Corridor will host a bike event on Saturday, September 15, 2012 to show off its magnificent bike path that parallels most of the future "W" line. >Denver, Thursday, November 8th, 2012, 7:00am to 10:30am The Transit Alliance Presents the Transit Event of 2012
Union Station:
Community Trans-Formation
Celebrating the Vision of FasTracks Coming to Life The Ritz Carlton Denver, $75 - Individual, $700 - Table
Stay tuned for reservation details
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