Mayor-Council

Tuesday, August 25, 2026, 9:30 a.m. (Denver time), City & County Building Parr-Widener Room 389

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2:47 It.

3:08 A really good morning,

3:08 everybody. Welcome. The Mayor

3:10 Council, thank you so much for

3:13 being here. As will start with

3:15 introductions. We have a

3:17 content today. We have an

3:20 update Great work happening

3:21 Live Elyria-swansea committee

3:23 process there. And so we get

3:24 to talk about that for a that

3:26 we have a brief executive

3:27 session, but we get to start

3:29 first with announcements talk

3:32 about gentleman to my right

3:33 stop production some time that

3:37 we're going out with mountain.

3:41 And yet just introductions I

3:43 represent district shirts

3:46 Denver City district by. But

3:48 it does. But you just expect

3:48 the morning said with it's

3:51 always good get councilmember

3:52 at large, mining events have

3:54 been replaced every district

3:56 morning do lots and find

3:56 district 9. Didn't Taurus was

3:59 timber district 3. Good

4:01 morning. Diana Romero,

4:03 Campbell, Southeast Denver

4:04 district now. The time is

4:05 right for announcements. So

4:07 now we've got not done, too,

4:12 has known like COUNCILWOMAN

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4:27 so much fun to have a yoga

4:30 series come rain or don't see

4:33 you can help you out you you

4:36 can it. Guy. In this fight am

4:37 having a movie at the park. It

4:40 MAY park at second into 9 and

4:42 we're showing how to train

4:44 your dragon. It's a resource

4:47 And then we start to around 8

4:48 o'clock see I'm painting.

4:51 Thank you, MADAM. Thank you so

4:56 Council wants council Torres

4:56 and later a security

4:58 clearance. Think you

4:59 PRESIDENT. I want to share

5:01 some exciting I'm the city

5:01 council member representing a

5:03 fine district 9, but

5:05 oftentimes I steal from

5:06 districts. I'm going to share

5:09 not a major announcement from

5:11 council district love to share

5:13 that Northfield. High School

5:15 is the number rated high

5:22 school in Colorado by us i

5:25 want to say to France poll

5:28 out, referring to celebrate so

5:31 first with Congratulations to

5:32 students, parents, educators,

5:34 everyone. One of amazing feat

5:36 for Denver public School to

5:38 listen in U.S. News World

5:39 Report. I don't even call it

5:41 that and more kind of

5:43 instilled us news. So it's

5:45 fantastic. So congratulation

5:46 more feel and welcome back to

5:48 the next school year. Want to

5:49 share a important event that's

5:51 happening and fine district 9

5:52 at Thursday, AUGUST. 27 from

5:56 5.30, to 07:00pm. We'll be

5:59 having a welcome next Virtual

6:02 meeting going to be discussing

6:03 on future of multi-modal

6:04 transportation along well cord

6:06 it's one of several meetings

6:08 that we've been having is one

6:11 of the town hall to wrap up

6:12 for the alternatives that we

6:13 presented by department

6:15 transportation and the

6:16 regional transportation

6:18 also the connection to downing

6:18 district not only o-line, but

6:22 to start complaint community

6:25 comes Love to hear your voice

6:27 is it's a virtual If you need

6:29 on the lake, reach out to my

6:31 office any time. But you can

6:33 also go on on Web site to get

6:35 plane to once again the next

6:36 steps meeting on virtual

6:38 05:37pm on Thursday, AUGUST

6:44 27th. But just what Council

6:45 thank you so Harder Dragon

6:48 Boat festival this weekend. So

6:50 make your way to Sloan's Great

6:53 to see some entertainment and

7:00 wants some some Also wanted to

7:02 mention and welcome Jan and is

7:04 here in towns from one of

7:06 those us and I just wanted

7:07 welcome her on behalf of all

7:09 of us. I think she's meeting

7:14 with different checking Denver

7:14 out and we have some investors

7:17 who are on the board of what

7:19 we needed to act Really And

7:20 remember that come to mind,

7:22 there are probably many others

7:24 spent Thanks for visiting

7:26 Thank you, sir. See this

7:30 afternoon because one of good

7:32 morning. Just wanted to give a

7:35 shout out. Thank you to

7:36 director for for supporting us

7:37 and event this past weekend to

7:40 save maker Historic Urban

7:41 Garden. This is a very

7:43 important garden that provides

7:44 food to Baker neighbors and

7:45 it's at risk of being lost

7:47 because the current owner of

7:48 the land has been letting us

7:50 use. It is deciding to so so

7:53 they are desperately trying to

7:57 raise porch past the exciting

8:00 festival coming to district in

8:01 OCTOBER did fundraising

8:02 concert this past weekend and

8:03 we were able to shut down part

8:05 of the street. Really grateful

8:07 for anyone's interested look

8:08 Baker, Historic Garden. Really

8:12 trying to say that. Also want

8:13 invite people out this

8:15 Saturday at Moore Park

8:15 Neighborhood Association will

8:18 be having their movie night

8:19 Saturday as 07:30pm, on the

8:22 West side of Houston They will

8:24 be which empty. I'm very

8:27 excited to share Hopefully 20.

8:30 It will not be empty They will

8:31 be showing their favorite toy

8:33 story movie because, you know,

8:34 there's a new toy story's.

8:38 Let's do a and you can watch

8:39 the venue when Very exciting

8:40 weekend in District 7. Thank

8:46 you. Thank you so much. MADAM

8:47 PRESIDENT, thank This wind

8:49 staying at 04:00pm and

8:50 Rosamond Park. We are opening

8:53 up a new pickleball court.

8:54 Super exciting. And for those

8:56 of you who are pickleball

8:58 players, if you sign Director

9:02 Clark and myself will be

9:06 playing that the for 7 from

9:10 the all. My gosh, we're going

9:11 to get And so I think, yeah,

9:14 it'll be a lot of fun will be

9:15 playing pickleball on

9:17 Wednesday afternoon pickleball

9:19 is not your thing on Saturday.

9:20 SEPTEMBER 19th we have a

9:25 concert in the park at

9:28 Eisenhower, think ok, great.

9:30 We're excited jump in. Love to

9:31 welcome Mike Bouchard from

9:36 national Western in friends

9:45 join us up Thanks, Thank you

9:45 so concerns really excited be

9:48 here this morning share with

9:51 you some updates on the

9:54 triangle, community vision,

9:57 planning This isn't everything

9:59 we've been engaged in almost

10:06 years So this is a along very

10:07 intentional process to engage

10:10 globe. Elyria, Swansea

10:10 communities get a substantive

10:11 continue to be driven to

10:12 planning process, to help

10:14 shape the future of the

10:17 triangle. Going to a lot of

10:20 detail. In a while since we've

10:21 been for a council. So we

10:22 thought it was a good

10:24 opportunity for him inflection

10:26 point in the process. And so

10:27 this was a great time to give

10:28 you all updates on what you

10:38 know, what the next steps for

10:51 superpowers Not the best, So

10:52 today we're going cover

10:56 handful of of items. Just a

10:57 quick background and context

10:59 of the campus specifically

11:03 about the triangle planning

11:04 process timeline the road map.

11:07 That's got us to where we are

11:08 today. Going in-depth on the

11:10 engagement tool box that are

11:11 using using a wide range of

11:15 different types of tools to

11:16 reach folks. I will talk in

11:19 detail about give you some

11:20 updates on the planning

11:21 process. What the cause was,

11:22 conversations with community

11:24 has been and then outline the

11:27 next steps from next. So just

11:28 as a reminder, the campus

11:36 itself and that building out a

11:37 new campus second host, the

11:37 Stock as it's happened for

11:42 now, 121 years in JANUARY for

11:43 the 2 weeks in JANUARY, but

11:44 also the fire an active in

11:46 programs the rest of the year.

11:50 It's intended to be a cultural

11:51 crossroads innovative

11:56 innovation. Focused on How can

12:00 this like this can not only

12:00 reconnect physically reconnect

12:03 the communities of response

12:05 here? Well, visitors and

12:06 creating a destination

12:08 entertainment and education

12:09 venue. But also how that

12:11 redevelopment can occur in a

12:15 way that green is the

12:16 community along with this.

12:17 That does not create

12:20 additional displacement

12:21 pressure how the benefits of

12:24 the redevelopment can benefit.

12:25 Not the campus, but the entire

12:26 neighborhoods that we sit

12:31 within. As a reminder, the

12:32 major campus partners include

12:35 the the National Western

12:36 Center Authority, the National

12:38 Western Stock Show and csu

12:40 Spur. Just want to take a

12:41 minute to acknowledge the

12:42 folks, the partners who are in

12:44 the audience here as well as

12:46 community members and

12:48 community partners. This has

12:51 really been came on doing

12:54 group effort, collaboration.

12:55 And so it's important that

12:57 everyone is here today as part

13:02 of this process site. Reminder

13:04 of the history of the campus,

13:07 this all started back in 2012

13:08 structure was contemplating

13:12 leaving Denver then Mayor

13:13 Hancock committed to keeping

13:14 the stock show here. But the

13:15 only way to do that was to re

13:19 imagine this campus as a

13:21 year-round, vibrant,

13:22 entertainment venue. That as I

13:26 said, it also brings the

13:27 community real community

13:28 benefits to close a response

13:31 here as we go forward so it's

13:32 a bit too much detail here.

13:37 Not the next slide is planning

13:38 itself. Really started to just

13:42 back in 2024, what near

13:46 Johnston came on board and

13:49 we'll talk about detour the

13:49 coalition with him and some

13:53 other important city

13:54 stakeholders through 2025. We

13:55 went into our community

13:57 outreach, work through process

13:58 which conveniently every day

14:03 is to cow in 2026. We really

14:03 got started planning process

14:07 in earnest and in 2027. We

14:11 wrap it up and move on into

14:15 limitation. So as a reminder

14:17 the campus so the dashed to

14:20 the lower right is the

14:21 triangle, which it is what's

14:22 always been referred to as

14:26 future phases because is one 2

14:28 on the upper left the in it

14:31 core of the campus. And we are

14:32 building out the replacement

14:34 facilities that will replace

14:37 the 2 large buildings

14:39 ingrained in and only when

14:41 those replacement facilities

14:41 or Bill does is the triangle

14:44 that on lot for us to building

14:49 out division there. Livestock

14:51 is now complete. It opened up

14:52 in JANUARY and replaces the

14:57 Hall of Education. And we

14:59 finalizing development

15:01 agreement for the Equestrian

15:05 Center which will replace

15:06 event center dust on locking

15:07 triangle setting us up for

15:07 implementation of this

15:11 community vision plant.

15:12 Another really important

15:18 component the campus from the

15:22 beginning was incorporation

15:23 meaningful, real community

15:24 benefits. And then each phase

15:26 of the camps, development, we

15:30 continue to raise the bar on

15:31 the level in and volume of

15:33 community benefits that are

15:37 being delivered. So that first

15:38 line, number is the baseline

15:40 that whole campus development

15:43 needs to provide. And that

15:44 includes the roundup. Think

15:44 goes to the community

15:45 investment fund or c I f as

15:49 well as additional funding

15:52 sources to support the ca

15:55 asked small Henry women-owned

15:57 business participation and

15:58 procurements of all city

16:00 contracts hearing to city

16:06 ordinances with major project

16:09 the equestrian center. We

16:10 added additional community

16:11 benefits including a 4,000

16:13 Square-foot community building

16:14 additional ci of support

16:15 through a hotel room nights.

16:19 Hotel fundraising and

16:22 additional workforce, job

16:23 creation to work now to

16:25 support the construction of

16:26 that facility and then with

16:27 triangle, we are taking that

16:31 even one step further, looking

16:34 in community ownership,

16:35 opportunities focusing on

16:37 affordable housing, not just

16:38 conceptually affordable

16:39 housing, citywide that

16:41 specific affordable housing,

16:42 additional community amenities

16:44 and gathering spaces and small

16:50 business incubator sites. As I

16:51 mentioned, all this, the

16:52 planning of us really started

16:54 back in Where when Mayor

16:58 Johnston and team joined gs

17:00 community led by the coalition

17:03 to work to look at trying to

17:05 talk about what the

17:06 community's desires were in

17:08 the mayor in that tour

17:09 committed to a

17:10 community-driven process to

17:11 explore the potential uses for

17:14 the triangle that really

17:18 kicked off where we are today.

17:20 As a reminder from the

17:21 beginning of you know, we've

17:22 we've been clear that there

17:24 are still some additional

17:26 public assets that need to be

17:28 constructed as part of 4 below

17:30 the campus in triangle. Those

17:34 include the 10,000 seat the 19

17:38 0, 9, read renovation we in

17:38 some additional Expo Hall

17:39 space as well as parking to

17:43 support those uses. In

17:44 addition, we need to provide

17:47 for his infrastructure. We

17:49 will be studying land which

17:50 includes affordable housing

17:53 mixed use opportunities, other

17:54 potential retail neighborhood

17:57 serving retail opportunities,

17:59 community spaces, parks,

18:01 plazas, looking at resiliency

18:04 and sustainability systems,

18:05 community ownership, which

18:06 we'll talk more about and then

18:09 overarching I as an umbrella.

18:10 How do we continue to ensure

18:12 that this redevelopment

18:15 delivering real and meaningful

18:19 community benefits to

18:21 neighborhoods. We presented

18:25 this to council last We spent

18:26 about 9 months with a group of

18:29 14 individuals from the

18:32 neighborhoods led our

18:35 community outreach We really

18:39 went depth with This team and

18:41 they developed for pass the

18:44 Senate guidelines as to how we

18:46 should approach this

18:47 community-driven planning

18:48 process specifically. How are

18:49 we making sure that our

18:53 outreach efforts are reaching

18:53 every resident and she spent 3

18:59 household. So had a lengthy

19:02 set of guidelines that we took

19:06 and incorporated into the

19:09 planning process that we are

19:14 now So right now we're hearing

19:16 AUGUST of 2026, community

19:18 outreach work group wrapped

19:20 last We took their guidelines