Downtown Denver Research: Why Downtown is Important to Denver


Downtown Denver at nightDemographics

  • 12,500 residents in Downtown CBD; 65,500 within 1.5 mile radius
  • 110,000 workers in Downtown 
  • Projected 2030 CBD residential: 25,000
  • Projected 2030 workforce: 145,000

Tourism

  • Overnight visitors: 12.8 million in 2010Denver Art Museum
  • Economic impact of visitors: $3 billion in 2010 

Attractions

  • Over 30 attractions in Downtown, including three major sports venues and a world-class performing arts center
  • Over 10 million attendees to all major attractions annually

Retail

  • Condos in Downtown Denver's Central Platte Valley2010 Downtown sales tax revenue: over $32 million
  • Approximately 1,000 retail and restaurant establishments 
  • $525 million in annual sales for Downtown retail and restaurants

Tax Data

  • In 2010, Downtown generated 7% of total city sales tax collections
  • At 2.9%, Colorado's sales & tax use is lowest of 45 states collecting sales tax

ResidentialCivic Center Park in Downtown Denver

  • 61% growth in Downtown since 2000
  • Median age: 46 
  • Average household income: $80,274

Transportation

  • 10 light rail stations
  • 62 buses routed through Downtown 
  • 44,000 off-street parking spaces 

July 2011

 

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The Downtown Denver Partnership, Inc. is a non-profit business organization that creatively plans, manages and develops Downtown Denver as the unique, diverse, vibrant and economically healthy urban core of the Rocky Mountain region.

 

The BID is a public organization funded by private commercial property owners. It funds cleaning & maintenance, safety initiatives and targeted marketing for Downtown Denver.

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