This document discusses plans to redevelop Speer Boulevard in downtown Denver through a multimodal corridor approach. It identifies current problems like traffic congestion, lack of pedestrian connectivity and sustainability, and underutilized land. The redevelopment aims to create a safe pedestrian environment, reduce traffic issues, provide diverse and consistent urban spaces, offer transportation choices beyond cars, increase sustainability efforts, encourage infill development and strengthen connectivity. The goals are implemented through streetscape improvements, traffic realignments, and development standards and incentives.

1. Speer BoulevardSpeer Boulevard
C lf t 6thColfax to 6th ave
Angela Jaffuel
James Chagnon
Woon Yong Lee

2. Speer Boulevard

3. Ch Ch Hill id T W k D iCheong-gyu Chun Hillside Terrace Wacker Drive
Precedents Studies
Mass Transit Connectivity Sustainability

4. Study Area

5. SITE ANALYSIS PRECEDENCESQUALITIES THAT
VISIONS FOR THE
DOWNTOWN DENVER PRINCIPLES
Absence of each
segment and Districts’
Characteristics
MAKE GREAT STREET
Accessibility and
Connectivity
DOWNTOWN DENVER
AREA PLAN
Prosperous City Characterized Street
Creation of Diverse and
Consistent Urban Spaces
Lack of Multi-modal
Transportations
Walkable City Urban Block or Edge
U f T ffi S t
Balance of Competing
Needs
Capitalizes on Natural
F t
Safe Sidewalk Environment
At the Pedestrian Level
Reduce traffic congestion and
Heavy Traffics
Lack of Streetscape,
Sidewalk, and human
scale
Diverse City
Distinctive City
Use of Traffic Systems
and transportation
Buildings on Street
level and sidewalk
Features
Creates a varied
streetscape
Encourages Social
Reduce traffic congestion and
speed to promote ease of
pedestrian crossing
Creation of another choice
other then the carscale
Poor
Pedestrian Environment
Green City Connectivity
Encourages Social
Activities
And Engagements
Uses Hardscape and
Landscape
other then the car
to travel along Speer
Increase vertical and
horizontal connections to
promote multimodal
Sustainability
Minimal pedestrian
connectivity
Major arterial passing
through other collectors
24 hour Street
p
connectivity
Increase sustainable aspects
to lessen effects of pollution
on the creekthrough other collectors
and arterials
Promotes Sustainability
Maintainable
Infill development and
revitalization to strengthen
community function through
use of existing infrastructure
Memorable Character

6. Unsafe
Speer Boulevard
-Not Enough
Physical Spaces
-Lack of eyes
-Inactive all day
-Car Speed
-No Protection
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Problems
-Sidewalk+Open Space, Fence, Night Lighting,
Planting Lane Focal Point
Physical Spaces
-No attraction
No Protection
Precedents
Safe Sidewalk Environment
-Planting Lane, Focal Point Precedents
At the Pedestrian Level Principles
-Sidewalk Width
-Pedestrian Spaces
(Pocket Park, etc,)
-Pedestrian Facilities
(Station, Sitting, etc.)
-Lightings
-Fence or
-Green Hedge
-Planting Greenway
Programs

7. Streetscape
Incompatibility
Problems
-Differential Building
Scale and Heights
-Lack of Fenestration
-Inconsistent Entrance
-Old, tattered Edges
-Undefined architectural
p y
-Fenestration Rate, Transparent Material,
-Consistent Podium, FAR 200%, Street wall Continuity, Precedents
Scale and Heights Inconsistent Entrance
boundary
Creation of
Diverse and Consistent
-Welcoming Entrance, Lower level Setback, Incentives
Precedents
Diverse and Consistent
Urban Spaces
Principles
-Development Density
Challenge
-Lower Level Unification
-Creation of Serial Vision
-Sense of Extended
Feeling
-Layout of Buildings
-Building Design
Programs

8. High volume of traffic
And congestion
-Not Enough
lanes for levels of
-Used as a
pass through
-Car Speed
g
Problems
-Wacker Drive by-level, separation of local and
non local traffic Michigan ave access ramps
volume
pass through
Precedents
Reduce traffic congestion and speed to
-non-local traffic Michigan ave access ramps, Precedents
Principlesg p
promote ease of pedestrian crossing
p
-Locate non-local
traffic below grade
-Reduce surface lanes
from four to two lanes
Programs

9. Lack of Multi-modal
Transportations
Problems
-Auto dependent
roadway
-No mass transit
Transportations
-The Right of way is narrow, Lower exhaust emissions,
Connect nodes of interest Ease of connections to other forms of transit Precedents
roadway
Creation of another choice other then the
Connect nodes of interest, Ease of connections to other forms of transit,
Fosters infill and redevelopment, Raises Property values
Precedents
Principles
car to travel along Speer
p
-Expand on existing forms
of mass transit for more
opportunities
Programs
-Phased
implementation
of mass transit

10. Minimal pedestrian
connectivity
-Minimal connections
to existing
-Gaps in neighborhood
connectivity and
-Minimal connections
from street level
y
Problems
-Pedestrian bridges, ramps, and stairs used to
increase connectivity, healthy lifestyle,
transportation system existing street grid to creek level
Precedents
Increase vertical and horizontal connections
a functional part of a modern transportation system
Precedents
to promote multimodal connectivity Principles
-Increase connections
-to existing and new
-transportation systems
-Pedestrian bridges to
connect neighborhoods
-Add ramps and
stairs from street
level to creek level
Programs

11. Lack of sustainability
-Silt build up
-Pollution runoff into
the creek
-Flooding during and
after heavy precipitation
Problems
-Silt/sand removal, Flood management,
recreational activities, Encourages re-development
the creek after heavy precipitation
Precedents
Increase sustainable aspects to lessen
, g p Precedents
p
effects of pollution on the creek Principles
-Sand/silt remediation
-Biofiltration
along Right of Way
Programs

12. Under Utilized Land
along Speer
-No sense of
enclosure
-Urban Blight leading
to lower property values
g p
Problems
-Increase in funding to adjoining properties,
Economic Revitalization, increased Sales Tax generation
enclosure to lower property values
Precedents
Infill development and revitalization to
strengthen community function through
, g Precedents
strengthen community function through
use of existing infrastructure Principles
-Develop clear
-development standards
-Provide flexibility
in design standards
Programs
-Allow for assembly
of mutliple properties
into one

13. The Big IdeaThe Big IdeaThe Big IdeaThe Big Idea
Multimodal CorridorMultimodal Corridor

14. Multimodal Corridoru t oda Co do

15. Multimodal Corridor

16. The OtherThe Other
Big IdeaBig IdeaBig IdeaBig Idea
Multilayer CorridorMultilayer Corridor

17. Multilayer Corridoru t aye Co do

18. Multilayer Corridor

21. Development PotentialDevelopment Potential

22. 0 750 1,500 3,000
FEET

24. Road and Alley RealignmentRoad and Alley Realignment

27. Triangular Block_ 3-46 acre
110Feet
Golden Triangle Neighborhood
T t l A 286Total Area _ 286 acre
Demography_ 1,000 Residents
Total Vacant Area_ 86 acre (30%)

28. Potential Ground Floor Uses

29. Design Goal ImplementationDesign Goal Implementation

45. Safe Sidewalk
Environment
At the Pedestrian Level
R d t ffi tiReduce traffic congestion
and speed to promote ease
of pedestrian crossing
Creation of Diverse and
Consistent Urban Spaces
Speer Boulevard
Creation of another choice
other then the car
to travel along Speer
Increase sustainable aspects
to lessen effects of pollution
on the creek
I ti l dInfill development and Increase vertical and
horizontal connections to
promote multimodal
connectivity
Infill development and
revitalization to strengthen
community function through
use of existing infrastructure

46. Speer BoulevardSpeer Boulevard