Greenprint Denver demonstrates local government can be an effective force for innovation and leadership to improve the environment.

Learn more about how we're making Denver greener, and what you can do to help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denver's Road Home is striving to reduce homelessness in Denver by 75%. Learn more about how we're ending homelessness in Denver and how you can get involved.

 

Denver’s neighborhoods encompass a wide variety of architecture, culture, and amenities making them both unique and vibrant. 

 

 

Blueprint Denver encourages and promotes more efficient use of transportation systems, expanded transportation choices, appropriate and mixed land uses, and the revitalization of declining neighborhoods — all of which ultimately will improve our quality of life.

 

On November 22, 1858, Gen. William Larimer, a land speculator from eastern Kansas, placed cottonwood sticks on the hill overlooking the confluence of the South Platte River and Cherry Creek to stake a claim at the center of a square-mile town plat.

 

Now, 150 years later, Denver is the 21st largest metropolitan area in the United States. The City and County of Denver is celebrating its sesquicentennial with a legacy project, the Denver Daisy; recognition of 150 people making Denver a better place; and a two-week celebration in November called 15 Days, 150 Years.