The recent award of nearly $36 million in a federal grant for projects in Globeville and Elyria-Swansea — Denver neighborhoods long divided by highways, railroad tracks and the South Platte R…
A runner runs along the path under the “People’s Bridge of the Sun” at East 51st Avenue over the South Platte River in Denver on March 20, 2024. The city has received $35.4 million in federal grant funding to better connect Denver’s Globeville and Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods. The bridge features art by David Ocelotl Garcia, who will also create art for the “People’s Bridge of the Moon,” another multi-modal bridge over the river that will connect to East 48th Avenue.
This is not the first time GES has seen substantial government investment over the last decade. Big spending has taken the form ofto the Central 70 project based on arguments that it would only deepen environmental health risks in an area already recognized as one of the country’s most polluted residential zip codes.
Federal officials highlighted four project elements earmarked for grant funding, some of which were envisioned in the National Western Center redevelopment plan:— from the National Western Center campus, on the east side of the river, to connections with North Washington Street on the west side. Artwork created by David Ocelotl Garcia is featured on the “People’s Bridge of the Sun” at East 51st Avenue over the South Platte River in Denver on March 20, 2024.
Johnston will tour the neighborhoods with Doug Emhoff, the husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, and other White House officials on Thursday, according to mayor’s office spokeswoman Jordan Fuja. “The neighborhoods around the National Western all are falling apart,” Nola Miguel, a longtime leader with the GES Coalition Organizing for Health and Housing Justice, told The Denver Post in an interview last fall.
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