Planning Project Manager II APA Colorado Chapter Wheat Ridge, CO
Experience firsthand how institutional and cultural anchors are catalyzing a broad transformation from suburban car-oriented environments into increasingly walkable, multimodal, active, and inclusive urban places that drive economies locally and beyond.
The University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has rapidly emerged as a world-class center for education, patient care, research and innovation. It supports 25,000 researchers, faculty, and staff, along with 4,500 future health professionals. The challenge is to fully realize the life-saving mission of the campus through new infrastructure and a diverse mix of uses—housing, retail, and hospitality—that create an environment that supports growth, well-being, and community.
At Stanley Marketplace, see how an abandoned aviation facility has become a bustling showcase for all local businesses, as well as a neighborhood cultural anchor connected to place. Stanley Marketplace is a national model for adaptive reuse; its success of has catalyzed an increasingly dense, pedestrian-oriented development pattern, public park improvements, and a palpably social public realm within an otherwise suburban context.
Learning Objectives:
Discover a successful transformation — well underway — of a decommissioned Army medical hospital campus into an innovation campus and urban center in a traditionally suburban American city.
Experience a new, diverse mix of uses built specifically to support the broad, life-saving mission of a world-class medical campus.
Investigate a nationally recognized example of adaptive reuse that has become a bustling marketplace and neighborhood cultural anchor that catalyzes an increasingly urban development pattern in an otherwise suburban context.