Two years into the Mile High City’s much-anticipated renovation of the 16th Street Mall, Denverites are seeing signs of life at the end of the long and not-so-winding I.M. Pei-designed road.
The primary driver of the 12-block makeover is to address deteriorating infrastructure, primarily the 1982-constructed granite paver system that was failing because of inadequate subsurface drainage, says Travis Bogan, director of special projects for Denver’s Dept. of Transportation and Infrastructure.
