After two long years, Downtown Denver’s 16th Street Mall is finally starting to open up. There’s no easy time to start a project of this size (the Mall was over 30 years old)But Downtown is definitely ready for the mall to open. Construction started shortly after Covid-19 shut down then the George Floyd protests. As they started digging on the mall they came upon an old water pipe lined with brick- old Denver. Adding more time to the project. Finally though this summer has seen a few blocks on the mall open up. Instead of the slippery stones, they’ve gone to brick. Keeping to the original design that Philip Milstien (one of the founders of the Mall) designed. I really love walking up the newly opened blocks on my way home.

Earlie days of construction on the Mall.

Writer Square block of the mall was the first to go under the knife.

Writer Square and the new 16th Street Mall. First block to open up.

The clock tower block ( (May Daniels and Fisher Clock tower)

Millennium Bridge in the distance.

Some older pics of the mall. The old stones would get really slippery.