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From here, you’ll own the BallPark Neighborhood.
Named for Coors Field, home to the Colorado Rockies professional baseball team, which opened in 1995 and seats 50,445 fans, the Ballpark Neighborhood is one of Denver’s fastest growing neighborhoods. It is rich with history and offers one of the most diverse lifestyles citywide.
As one of the city’s first neighborhoods, it was originally mostly an industrial district and retains some of that zoning today. Warehouses grew up alongside the railroad tracks that brought civilization to Denver and trains to nearby Union Station. Some of the long-forgotten spurs of the tracks are still evident in the asphalt streets of the
Ballpark Neighborhood, many of them leading to loading docks along Blake, Walnut and Larimer Streets.
In its earliest days, the neighborhood—which stretches from 20th Street on the South to 30th on the North—was home to hard-working immigrants: Italians, Irish, Japanese, Chinese and Mexicans. In the late 1800s, lumberyards occupied what is today outlying parking for Coors Field. Paint factories and glass warehouses in the District thrived in tandem with the city’s growing population at turn of the last century. Some of the city’s first churches were built, many still in use today.
In the mid-1900s, the neighborhood was the go-to source for the freshest imported seafood and produce grown in other parts of the state. The variety of services and products—automotive repair shops to a corned beef factory—was unmatched anywhere else in the city. As the years passed, edgy furniture warehouses began to locate in the neighborhood. Live/work spaces were nearly invented here. Even a chocolate company put down roots.
In the late 1990’s, the city’s first lofts sprung up along Blake Street. Within a handful of years, Urban pioneers began to regard the neighborhood as a preferred place to live—close to both I-25 and I-70. Brighton Blvd. viaduct was replaced with a sophisticated underpass signaling the renaissance of the area. Overnight nearly, former warehouses were converted into loft projects.
The mix of opportunity in the Ballpark District today includes everything from pawn shops and authentic Mexican restaurants to art galleries, brewpubs, coffee houses, nightclubs, jazz joints and sports bars. On any given weekend, folks from all over metro Denver flock to find the unusual for sale at the community flea market, called the Ballpark Market. And hundreds of thousands more make their way to Coors Field during Rockies season to delight in the fireworks displays that burst forth out of Coors centerfield into the night sky of the Ballpark Neighborhood.
Other people have to drive for miles to enjoy the Ballpark Neighborhood lifestyle. You own the experience from your address at Blake Street Apartments.
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