Ballpark/Curtis Park, including Prospect Valley and Five Points
The Ballpark/Prospect Valley 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 still very much a functioning warehouse and light industrial 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. The current population is approximately 1,400. However, the population is set to explode, with more than 1,000 new residential units under construction. Curtis Park/Five Points, one of Denver's first street-car suburbs, has long been the center of the African-American community. Welton Street, within the neighborhood, is the only predominantly African-American owned commercial strip in the country, according to the Five Points Business Association. Curtis Park is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The current population is around 3,600. Over 400 new residential units are under construction in the area. (Click on the thumbnails for larger pics)