Denver Living Streets

Partners & Sponsors

The Living Streets Initiative has primarily been funded by grants and donations from governments, businesses and non-profit organizations, and supported by numerous partners and like-minded initiatives.

Major Sponsors

The City and County of Denver in 2007 was awarded with Smart Growth Implementation Assistance by the US Environmental Protection Agency to study how the application of living streets principles in the Cherry Creek Corridor (Speer-Leetsdale Travelshed) could improve multi-modal transportation, community development, economic development, environmental quality and support public health and active living on commercial corridors throughout the city. Learn more on the overview page.

Kaiser Permanente Colorado provided a grant for the initiative’s public education and engagement series. Five educational events for policymakers and professionals were held from summer 2008-winter 2009 featured national and local experts on the themes of policy and politics, engineering and design, public health, economic development, and finance and implementation. Five public workshops were held in different Denver neighborhoods in fall 2009 to engage the general public on the potential benefits and tradeoffs of living streets and get their input and feedback. Rocky Mountain PBS also produced a series of six interstitial public services announcements about the Living Streets Initiative as part of PBS’s Blueprint America series on the nation’s infrastructure, and Denver 8 TV aired the five public education series events. Learn more on the overview page.

The City and County of Denver in 2008 was awarded a Colorado Heritage Planning Grant by the Colorado Department of Local Affairs Office of Smart Growth to conduct a market opportunity analysis of the economic benefits of living streets. Learn more on the overview page .

The Denver Department of Environmental Health provided a seed capital grant being used to fund the facilitation of a citywide living streets corridor design framework.

Other Sponsors

American Lung Association Colorado
American Planning Association Colorado Student Chapter
Barker Rinker Seacat
Denver Regional Council of Governments
Downtown Denver Partnership
Glatting Jackson Kercher Anglin
City of Glendale
Metro Mayors Caucus
Regional Air Quality Council
Transportation Solutions
URS Corporation

Other Partners and Like-Minded Initiatives

AARP Colorado
B Cycle
Bike Denver
Bicycle Colorado
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Physical Activity and Nutrition Program
Colorado Department of Transportation
Denver Public Health
eGo Car Share
Federal Boulevard Partnership
Inter-Neighborhood Cooperation
LiveWell Colorado
RTD FasTracks
Stapleton Transportation Management Association
Transit Alliance
Urban Land Institute Colorado