Denargo Market opens four acres of park space in RiNo
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Children climb Rhingo the rino at Denargo Market. Photo: Esteban L. Hernandez/Axios
Denargo Market unveiled Thursday more than four acres with a riverfront walk, a new playground and a large climbable rhino.
The big picture: Developers poured about $60 million into the new amenities just north of downtown and hope to draw housing and retail development surrounded by park spaces.
State of play: Residents from surrounding neighborhoods wanted more connectivity to the South Platte River, Laura Newman, vice president atGolub & Company, which helped develop the site, tells us.
- Their feedback helped build out the amenities, which include new sidewalks, lunch tables, fire pits, bike paths and a community garden that Denver Urban Gardens will operate.
Context: The 17-acre site was billed as the River North Art District's lone large vacant lot when developers broke ground nearly two years ago.
- It's smack in the middle of several apartment complexes, near amenities like yoga, a bar and co-working spaces, and just across the street from the Crossroads Center, one of the busiest homeless shelters in the city.
If you go: The park spaces are located along Arkins Court and 29th Street.