March 2, 2017
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Sloan’s Lake area abuzz From market-rate to affordable housing to retail, project offers bevy of amenities BY CLARKE READER CREADER@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Kasandra Alvarado, 11, who has been playing the violin for three years, performs Feb. 18 with her mariachi group, “El Mariachi Juvenil de Bryant Webster” of Denver Public Schools. The group performed three songs in front of a crowd of 300.
LEARNING ABOUT THE MUSIC OF MEXICO Students from throughout Colorado, including Denver Public Schools, participated in a Feb. 18 mariachi music workshop for youths at Metropolitan State University that featured well-known mariachi recording artists from California. Dr. Lorenzo Trujillo, an affiliate music professor at MSU who directs the mariachi ensemble “Los Cor-
recaminos,” organized the event that drew 135 students, teachers and chaperones from Denver, Brighton, Commerce City, Cherry Creek, Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Longmont. The workshop included lectures, music training and performances at the end of the day. —Photos by Shannon Garcia
Eduardo Esquivel, 16, has been playing the violin for seven years as part of the Denver Public Schools program.
On the site of the former St. Anthony Central Hospital campus, a new kind of living experience is rising through the dirt and rubble. On the 18-acre campus, directly south of Sloan’s Lake and north of West Colfax, between Stuart Street and Perry Street and just a few blocks east of Lakewood and Edgewater, apartment and office buildings, townhomes and retail opportunities are coming together in a new development called Sloans Denver. “The goal was to create a lot of income points, with a cross section of housing options,” said Cameron Bertron, executive vice president with EnviroFinance Group, the Denver-based development group that is the site’s master developer. “We wanted this area to be a neighborhood of front doors, even with retail coming in.” St. Anthony moved to Union Boulevard in Lakewood in 2011, and for several years the former location sat empty. EnviroFinance purchased the property in 2013, and started holding neighborhood meetings to get a sense of what neighbors wanted to see in the area. “Driving to work along the east end of West Colfax, it seemed like they were tearing down buildings all the time,” said Colleen Rapp, who lives nearby in Lakewood and has taken a great interest in the project. “It’s incredible once you see what it’s going to be. It’s going to be such an improvement and make the area so much better.” EnviroFinance held dozens of meeting with residents, Bertron said, and the company heard that people were looking for open space SEE PROJECT, P10
THE BOTTOM LINE PERIODICAL
‘I’ve been here a while and I really want to win as soon as possible. The fact we’re taking steps toward that end, it’s that much more exciting.’ Adam Ottavino, Rockies pitcher | Page 11 INSIDE
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