Denver Civic Center Park Update

This is GREAT news!

To: Friends and Supporters of the Coalition to Save Civic Center Park
From: The Coalition to Save Civic Center Park

Today the Board of the Colorado Historical Society voted to withdraw Civic Center Park as a possible site for the new Colorado History Museum!

In his press release, Mayor Hickenlooper characterizes the decision as one to "abandon" the Civic Center Park-Museum idea.

While we will continue to monitor the situation, it appears that the ill-conceived idea of putting a 4-story building (and a large underground museum gallery) in the open space of Civic Center Park has now gone away.

Some have already asked what will happen to our petition effort. At this point in time our intent is to suspend our efforts at gathering signatures (we had only gotten the final "green light" from the City to proceed on Monday, 1/28), but we will reserve our ability to start up again if the decision to go elsewhere with the Museum were to be reconsidered.

Also, this does not mean an end to the need to focus on Civic Center Park. Contrary to what some have said about our efforts, we do not accept the status quo. Civic Center Park is in need of our attention and efforts to make it better, including figuring out a way to renovate the Carnegie Library Building to return it to a more public function.

There will be a presentation on Tuesday, Feb. 5, to the Denver Landmark Preservation Commission regarding proposed "guidelines" to implement the Master Plan for Civic Center Park, and we intend to be there and provide input.

Thanks for all of your help and support! We will keep you posted as best we can regarding future development.

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