Huge Denver redevelopment highlights potential, limits of McKee's NorthSide ... St. Louis Post-Dispatch

22.11.09

Denver — You don't get many chances to remake a big chunk of an old metropolis. But at an abandoned airport on the east side of Denver, they're doing just that.

It's called Stapleton, and although only half completed, it is already the largest urban redevelopment calculate in the United States. When finished, it will have 10,000 new homes spread across seven square miles. Vast parks. New jobs. A walkable, sustainable community for the 21st century, stitched seamlessly into the bothered by, troubled blocks around it. Sound familiar?

Indeed, Stapleton is Model A for what developer Paul McKee says he wants to do in St. Louis, where he has reached a engage in with city officials to rebuild a Forest Park-sized chunk of the near north side. From architecture to leafy space to the mix of jobs and housing, the Denver project is guiding plans for NorthSide, McKee said. He has even hired one of Stapleton's chief visionaries as his be ahead of planner.

"It's the closest pattern

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