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Old Posted Apr 12, 2012, 3:27 PM
mr1138 mr1138 is offline
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I posted these a few years ago, but here they are again. Denver again... it's the Central Platte Valley that was historically a train-yard and heavy industrial area dating back to the gold mining era. The whole area has been cleaned up and is now being developed as a new downtown neighborhood that links The Highlands neighborhood across the river to downtown. A more recent aerial would show even more buildings in the empty area created by the environmental cleanup, as an ongoing building boom in the area is continuing to this day. I'm not sure on the date for the first image, but I would guess it is at some point in the 1950s or early 60s based on the partially completed I-25 being built at the top of the picture.





Both pictures from http://www.flickr.com/photos/28936694@N03/page5/ via the Riverfront Park Blog http://blog.riverfrontpark.com/
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