Central Business District
Downtown’s core: the 16th Street Mall, office towers, and a fast-growing residential population. The Central Business District grew up as Denver’s commercial, financial, and retail center.
Population & home ownership: ACS 2019–2023 · median age & rent: ACS 2017–2021 · Denver Open Data
WHO LIVES HERE
A growing downtown residential core
Once purely offices and retail, the CBD is now home to a young, renting population: a third in their twenties, about 23% ownership, and a $1,125 median rent.
Source: Denver Open Data, American Community Survey 2017–2021
GET INVOLVED
Registered Neighborhood Organizations
HISTORY
The heart of the mile-high city
Denver’s commercial district grew up where the street railways converged, becoming the financial and retail center of the Rocky Mountain West. Today the 16th Street corridor and its office towers anchor a downtown that is adding residents faster than almost anywhere in the city.
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