Downtown Denver’s $570M recovery plan gets strong support from voters

By Bernadette Berdychowski  | Colorado Politics

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s first major initiative toward reviving downtown from its pandemic downturn got strong support from eligible voters.

More than 81% of voters chose to expand the Downtown Development Authority — created to fund Union Station’s 2014 restoration using tax-increment financing — to cover the rest of downtown Denver and generate nearly half-a-billion dollars for funding projects across the city core.

“As cities across the country struggle to bring their downtown back to pre-pandemic levels, Denver has decided to face this seemingly unsolvable challenge head-on and bet on our cultural, civic, and economic core by passing 6A with more than 80% support,” Johnston said in a statement Wednesday.

READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS

Link to original article