Northern Downtown Denver Alliance
The original NoDo Alliance website was abandoned sometime in 2006. However, we here at Spork Marketing think it's important to contribute to our favorite city. We've attempted to revive this site based on what we could find on the internet. If you have suggestions, ideas for improvements, or if you're the old site owners and you want to take back control, please contact us. This site was revived as a public service and we have received no monetary compensation for this work.
About the NoDo Alliance
The alliance is composed of eight downtown Denver neighborhoods:
- Upper Larimer
- Denargo Market
- Ballpark
- Five Points
- Curtis Park
- River North
- Lawson Park
- Enterprise Hill
The goal of the original site was to work together to showcase the diversity that makes up Northern downtown Denver, promote community and provide a place for events to be listed. We're not able to maintain a free listing of events, but you can visit Westword and Denver.org to learn about upcoming events in these neighborhoods.
The 8 Neighborhoods
Upper Larimer - The neighborhood of Upper Larimer fuses the industrial warehouse zone with the underground artist community. Upper Larimer features many cultural amenities, including Sound structure Studios, The Walnut Room, the Walnut Foundry event center, Studio Aiello, Larimer Lounge, Performance International, Casa de Manual, An-ism, Equilibrium and the not to be missed Smity’s Coffeehaus.
Denargo Market - When the Denargo Market opened in 1939, it was built alongside Union Pacific Railroad tracks. Plans are taking shape to redevelop the 30 acres surrounding the historic Denargo Market. Up to 2,500 residential units and 200,000 square feet of retail space are being proposed by a large real estate developer.
Ballpark - The Ballpark neighborhood lies to the north of Lower Downtown and Downtown Denver's central business district. The southern end of the neighborhood (around 20th Street) is anchored by Coors Field, which opened in 1995. Ballpark also stretches almost 20 blocks to the north from 20th Street, into a section of Downtown that is a functioning warehouse and light industry district. An increasing number of those warehouses are being renovated into loft projects. This part of Downtown was established early in Denver's history, growing alongside the railroad tracks that carried goods and raw materials into Denver's industrial market.
Five Points - The name "Five Points" is often applied to the neighborhood northeast of Downtown, Five Points is also known as a retail, restaurant, and services corridor on Welton. Since Five Points' founding in the 1860s as one of Denver's first residential suburbs, this area around Welton Street has evolved into a vibrant mixed-use district that today offers a direct link to Downtown Denver via RTD's light rail line. The Five Points area got its name early this century from the city's tramway company, who used the nickname because their street car signs were not big enough to list all of the street names at this end-of-the-line stop.
Curtis Park - Curtis Park was developed in the 1860s and 1870s as a fashionable residential suburb north of Downtown Denver. Today, Curtis Park remains one of the center city's most accessible neighborhoods for Downtown workers, characterized by its tree-lined streets, its broad range of housing types, and its social, economic and ethnic diversity. Curtis Park's housing mix is wide ranging: single story duplexes stand next door to recently renovated grand Victorian mansions; flat-roofed row houses next to classic, two-story Denver Square brick houses; Queen Anne-style houses with second floor porches are also numerous. There are three designated historic districts in the Curtis Park neighborhood: Clements, San Rafael and Glenarm Place.
River North - The new, old neighborhood located on the South Platte River, just north of downtown Denver via Broadway / Brighton Boulevard, and directly accessible from both I-70 and I-25. River North is an opportunity area in the opening stage of a redevelopment renaissance. It is the last great neighborhood adjacent to downtown, with the key ingredients for success of location, character and low cost.
Lawson Park - Deriving its name from Sonny Lawson Baseball Field. Neal Cassady played in this field and walked through it every morning on his way to school. If it's the weekend or an early weekday evening, chances are that there's a game in progress, but this is also where Jack Kerouac watched a baseball game one night at age 27, in the summer of 1949, during his solitary search for Neal Cassady's history, taking essential notes for On The Road.
Enterprise Hill - Enterprise Hill is the neighborhood that is up the hill on the eastern edge of the downtown core. When you cross over Broadway by the Brown Palace to go into the atrium for the "cash register building" or go to the light rail station by 1999 Broadway, you have just entered the western edge of Enterprise Hill.
Contact
Ballpark Neighborhood Association
http://www.bpnassoc.org/
P.O. Box 1255
Denver, Colorado 80201-1255
+1 (303) 291-0245
President Max Silverman
Curtis Park Neighbors
http://www.curtispark.com/
2700 Arapahoe St., Suite B
Denver, Colorado 80205
+1 (303) 308-1128
President David Carnicelli
Denargo Market Neighbors Coalition
1777 Larimer St., #2302
Denver, Colorado 80202
+1 (303) 312-1920
President Cynthia Chapman
Enterprise Hill Homeowners Association
2121 Tremont Place
Denver, Colorado 80205
+1 (303) 297-1433
President Ted Freedman
Five Points Business Association
http://www.5points.org
2444 Washington Street, Suite 300
Denver, Colorado 80205
+1 (303) 832-3770
Executive Director Marva Coleman
Lawson Park Neighborhood Association
2455 Glenarm Place
Denver, Colorado 80205
+1 (303) 294-9065
President Virginia Dudden
River North
http://www.zeppelinplaces.com/vision_rn.html
3455 Ringsby Court
Denver, Colorado 80216
+1 (303) 573-0781
Visionaries Mickey Zeppelin and Larry Burgess
Upper Larimer Neighborhood Association
P.O. Box 8784
Denver, CO 80201-8784
+1 (303) 552.3057
Co-Presidents John Burr and Michael Kloefkorn