They’re too busy fighting for their very lives, in a ballpark that has clearly proven, over and over again, that’s it’s the liveliest ever built for a major league ballclub. The pitchers who take the mound at Coors Field could give a rat’s tail about the surrounding aesthetics. Three blocks from Coors Field, the historic Union Station train depot-once LoDo’s architectural anchor-has become a swank hotel run by Dana Crawford, who initially led the community fight against the ballpark. Down the street, a structure of pricey lofts includes street-level sushi and cheesesteak restaurants. Adjacent is a condo complex that offers rooftop lounging and a two-lane bowling alley. An old Piggly Wiggly warehouse, built in 1927, has been retrofitted and houses high-end apartment living.
Since Coors Field’s opening, LoDo has exploded with a vibrant collection of restaurants, bars and lounges.
There may be no better case study of a ballpark completely bringing a neighborhood back from the dead. Once Coors Field arrived, up it went, stratospherically. Outside of a few art galleries, design firms and chic, word-of-mouth lounges, LoDo had nowhere else to go but up.
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The LoDo district where the ballpark resides was once an eroding wasteland of long-ago vitality, full of decaying brick warehouses and lightly populated with homeless people milling about with 100-year-old ghosts of gamblers, prostitutes and drunkards. Gentrification is sometimes viewed as a dirty word, especially among the more politically sensitive who see that urban tactic as brooming away the underclass to another section of town that, one day soon, will also go upscale and lead to another cold exodus.īut Denver’s Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies, is a contrast to that thinking.
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