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The Denver Example

If there is one emerging high growth city that is handling growth relatively well, it's Denver. The Mile High City has an advantage over Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix -- namely its smaller population, currently about 2.5 million. Suburban expansion (I didn't use sprawl) hasn't gotten totally...

By Jonathan D. Miller | Updated on June 12, 2008

If there is one emerging high growth city that is handling growth relatively well, it’s Denver. The Mile High City has an advantage over Atlanta, Dallas, Houston and Phoenix — namely its smaller population, currently about 2.5 million. Suburban expansion (I didn’t use sprawl) hasn’t gotten totally out of hand. Rocky Mountain environmental consciousness probably also has helped.

Twenty years ago, Denver’s downtown was going the way of downtown cores in Atlanta and Dallas — ready to sink fast. Suburban office nodes in expanding suburbs had become favored business centers. Traffic was becoming a problem into downtown and local commutes were easier. Nobody lived downtown and there wasn’t much to do anyway, except maybe have a cocktail at the bar in the Brown Palace after work.

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