Commons Streetscapes Schematic Design

Denver, Colorado

The streets of The Commons Neighborhood are extensions of Denver's traditional grid. They reflect elements of the city's most attractive streets, which feature the consistent use of high quality paving, benches, street lights, and other streetscape furnishings. Street trees will provide shade for pedestrians and will spatially define and unify the overall streetscape theme. While streets differ in dimension and design, they all relate to a network that promotes physical comfort and visual interest for pedestrians. Design treatments have been established for proposed streets that are appropriate to the vehicular and pedestrian use of each street, as well as adjacent land uses. The street system not only establishes a street hierarchy that serves regional, district and local access needs, it also plays a strong role in the integration of the project site with surrounding neighborhoods.