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When defining the boundaries between Ballpark, Five Points, Curtis Park and even LoDo, there’s overlap and varying boundary designation depending on the source. For the purpose of this description boundaries were chosen based on all available sources and common sense.
The Ballpark neighborhood is city-living. Period. It’s directly adjacent to the north-east side of downtown and bordered on the west by 20th Street, on the north by the Platt River and on the east by Broadway. The over-riding architectural tone is warehouses converted into industrial-chic lofts or new five- and six-story structures built to expand on the urban-industrial theme. The facades are mostly brick with wrought-iron balconies, big square windows and silver ribbed-industrial paneling. Some residential buildings are New-Urbanism mixed-use with shops occupying the ground floor. Sticking with the city-living theme there’s brick, concrete, steel and glass in every direction with an abundance of parking lots and few trees or plots of grass.
Market statistics for the Ball Park neighborhood are available upon request. Please feel free to contact either Stacy or Alex if you would like a detailed analysis of Ball Park real estate.
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With the summertime aroma of hotdogs in the air, Ballpark’s location makes it a hot spot for walking to bars, clubs, restaurants and—of course—baseball! Downtown and LoDo are only minutes away and even the Pepsi Center is reasonably close. Some of the better spots specifically in Ballpark are the AM-only (and a little PM) Snooze, the polished ruggedness of Whiskey Bar and the gonzo-inspired Flying Dog Brewery. For anyone itchy for a touch o’ green there’s the homegrown City of Cuernavaca Park, as well as Commons Park in neighboring Riverfront. Finally, with close proximity to downtown, public transportation and major thoroughfares are more than abundant. Park Avenue and 20th Street connect directly to I-25, while Park Avenue and Broadway/Brighton Boulevard lead to I-70.
Like the Rockies 2007 season, the Ballpark neighborhood is caught in its own momentum. With a host of new projects completed and even more scheduled to begin mid- to late-2007 or 2008 the entire landscape of the neighborhood is changing. The Zi Lofts is a mixed-use 7-story 36 unit loft/retail beginning in 2007. The Fireclay Lofts at 31st are 51 unit townhomes, lofts, flats and row-homes. The 1601 Park Avenue West is a mixed-use office space/retail with 8 penthouses at the top. Blake 27 Brownstones are 50 unites along Blake and Walnut with a mid-rise building at the corner of Walnut and 28th Street housing 70 condos. There’s also Little Flower going up at 28th and Larimer with 4 new units and 2 units converted from a historic building all scheduled to break ground in 2007. Finally, Upper Larimer project consists of 5-townhomes also scheduled to start in 2007.
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