Sustainable Vision for Urban Denver Corridor Featured in Public Square
The Cherry Creek and Speer Boulevard Vision and Feasibility Study reimagines an urban corridor along the southern edge of downtown Denver. The study, led by HDR, suggests restoring biodiversity to Cherry Creek for a healthier environment and realigning Speer Boulevard to prioritize people over cars.
The reimagined corridor would be a multiuse ribbon of green infrastructure in the city, elevating Denver’s status as a leader in ecological and climate resiliency.
The study was recently featured in Public Square, an online publication from Congress for the New Urbanism. The publication is dedicated to illuminating and cultivating best practices in urbanism in the United States and elsewhere.
In the article, Avinash Rajagopal, editor-in-chief of Metropolis Magazine, said one key to the study’s design is exploring and imagining the corridor through time.
“The project investigated what the Creek used to be, what we had done to it, what could be, while acknowledging that we can't really turn back the clock,” Rajagopal said.
Read more about how the study offers a new vision for Denver in the article, “A creek, boulevard, and urban destination.”
The Congress for the New Urbanism also recently gave HDR a Merit Award in the Neighborhood, District, and Corridor category of the 2025 CNU Charter Awards for the Cherry Creek and Speer Boulevard study.
