Category: City Park

City Park Tours in April

Doors Open Denver 2017 is sponsoring tours of City Park on Saturday, April 29 (10:30 am) and Sunday, April 30 (1:00 pm). City Park enthusiasts, Patricia Paul, Barbara Wright and Georgia Garnsey will lead the tour, “City Park, Crown Jewel of the Queen City†for the third year. Tour participants will stroll though City Park’s green expanses and past its lovely gardens, fountains and statues for 60-90 minutes. We’ll explore City Park’s history and also its intrinsic beauty, sculpted by the vision of Denver’s pioneer founders and leading designers. Historic photos will be passed around.  Meet at the  Snowmastodon sculpture

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Denver As ‘China Town’

A poster for chinatown with a woman and man.

From the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle Raises Funds And Awareness A few months ago on December 7, 2016, more than 100 people attended the showing of the movie Chinatown, at the Sie Film Center, in support of the lawsuit to stop the destruction of historic City Park Golf Course and the Globeville Landing Park. Both parks are part of the Platte to Park Hill Storm Drainage project (P2P) being done to enable expansion, undergrounding and partial cover of I-70 and the massive public/private development of the Platte Valley north of the River North Art District (RiNO). The movie, set in

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Donation Request To Save City Park Golf Course

A yellow and black logo for the cave city park golf course.

Dear City Park Friends and Neighbors: We need your generous help to win the legal battle to save City Park Golf Course. Why does City Park Golf Course need to be saved? As you know, the city is proceeding with its plans to “repeal and replace†City Park Golf Course as part of its agreement with the Colorado Department of Transportation to provide drainage for the I-70 lowered highway project. How can we save it? Since the City Park Golf Course project is only one piece in a very large interconnected series of projects that include local, state, and federal

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