Integrating housing and transportation, an affordable-housing transit-oriented development recently broke ground at Regional Transportation District’s Yale Station. The 66-unit, four-story project is called Garden Court Yale Station and is located near the intersection of I-25 and Yale Avenue. The apartments at Garden Court Yale Station will be workforce housing, or residences that are affordable to […]
RTD Eagle Update
January 22, 2015 by Leave a Comment
The Regional Transportation District’s $2.2 billion Eagle project has hit significant milestones. The Eagle project is a portion of RTD’s sprawling FasTracks project to expand rail service across the metro area. Eagle includes lines from downtown to Denver International Airport, Arvada, and Westminser. The Eagle projects’s first four passenger rail cars recently arrived at Denver […]
RTD Update
November 14, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Parking is changing at five lots along the West rail line, the Regional Transportation District’s newest rail line. RTD, which launched a pay-for-parking program in 2009, started charging for parking at five of the 11 stops along the West line, which runs from Golden to Denver Union Station. The paid parking program covers 38 of […]
Denver’s Apartment Boom Continues
July 24, 2014 by Leave a Comment
The demand for new apartments, job growth, RTD’s FasTracks transit project, and climbing rent are all factors in the continuing of Denver’s apartment construction boom. Denver’s market was among the country’s top markets for completion of new rental units in the first quarter of 2014 (2,312), and the number is expected to exceed 9,000 units […]
The Transformation of Denver’s Transportation, Cont.
May 10, 2014 by Leave a Comment
This May is an exciting time in the world of Transit Oriented Development. Denver Union Station, 95 percent complete, will be unveiled on May 9 through which the Regional Transportation District will celebrate the completion of the $480 million project that will form the hub of a transit network spanning the Denver metro area. Ahead […]
Affordable Housing Meets FasTracks
January 22, 2014 by 1 Comment
No one expected the boom of apartment development around the redevelopment site of Denver’s Union Station to happen as quickly as it did. This year, prepare to see a new 108-unit affordable-housing rental development in a sea of costlier apartments, amid some of the most expensive office space in Colorado, and on land that draws […]
The Transformation of Denver’s Transportation
January 13, 2014 by 4 Comments
Regional Transportation District’s (RTD) sprawling FasTracks project, which includes laying more than 100 miles of rail tracks throughout metro Denver, and transforming the old station into a transportation hub, will begin construction of the North Metro commuter rail line in the spring of 2014. This line will carry passengers from Denver Union Station to 124th […]