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Designing Small Spaces

by Vali Wimberly on July 10, 2008

The monthly Center City Housing Council meeting at the Downtown Denver Partnership yesterday had a timely topic — Ron Faleide, President of Faleide Architects, intrigued the council with the idea of conserving living space without compromising comfort and, of course, style.

Faleide spoke of the increasing demand for livable spaces less the excess — formal rooms that collect dust, storage space heated at a high price but with no added value, the aging boomers looking to downsize from the drain of the McMansion. Faleide recommended the book, The New American Dream: Living Well in a Small House which puts many of the concepts in use.

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Downtown Denver Motor Tour

by Kristal Kraft on September 27, 2007

Denver InFill Motor TourWhen was the last time you were a tourist in your own city? For me that was yesterday. Thanks to the Downtown Denver Partnership and Ken Schroeppel, Urban Planner/Tour Guide. We boarded a bus for a 3-hour tour of Denver’s infill development projects. Yes, we took a whole 3 hours and never left the city!

OK, so touring on a slow moving bus, covering all too familiar ground doesn’t sound so thrilling? Ah, but it was. Learning about Denver and all of the Denver real estate projects in and around downtown is amazing.

Denver is a construction magnet right now. Everywhere one looks there is a construction crane or two in view! Actually I think Denver has the corner on the construction crane market, there can’t be any left in the rest of the country. [click to continue...]

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