Central Park Station will be located on the north side of Smith Road between Ulster Street and Central Park Boulevard. The station will be part of the $1.6 billion, 23-mile East Corridor commuter rail line, which will operate between Denver Union Station and Denver International Airport (DIA) and be constructed as part of RTD’s FasTracks program.
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By opening day in 2015, RTD’s Stapleton Transfer Center will be relocated to the Central Park Station and will have 16 bus bays serving an estimated 10 routes. According to the East Corridor Environmental Impact Assessment, the station is forecast to have 3,100 daily rail boardings by 2030, 44% accessed by park-n-Ride, 41% by bus, and 15% by walking.
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Central Park Station is envisioned to serve as a main park-n-Ride for airport travelers, as it does today, as well as a hub for timed bus-to-rail and bus-to-bus transfers (it will be the third-largest bus transfer center in the entire RTD system behind Union Station and the Denver Federal Center in Lakewood). Due to this high level of activity, the station will have 1,500 parking spaces.
Central Park Station will be within the Stapleton Redevelopment project, a master planned redevelopment effort that, at build-out, will include 13,800 residential units, 4 million square feet (SF) of retail and 8.2 million SF of office in addition to more than 1,200 acres of park space and other uses. The Stapleton redevelopment project covers approximately 4,700 acres and is guided by new urbanist and sustainable principles.
The purpose of this station conceptual plan was to bring together the City of Denver, RTD and Forest City (the master developer for Stapleton) to optimize the benefits of the station: so the site will function efficiently for bus and rail transit riders and preserve the opportunity to create transit oriented development and support desired future development of the station area.
RTD will purchase approximately 20 acres just to the south of Smith Road between Central Park Boulevard and Quebec Square from Forest City to accommodate the bus transfer facility and commuter parking needs. On opening day the parking needs will be served by surface parking lots. When TOD ultimately occurs, a development partner will need to build a transit parking garage. Property to the east, west and south of RTD’s property has been master planned by Forest City.
Ultimate buildout of station area
Cross-section of future Smith Road
Cross-section of future Uinta Street