16th Street Mall Project

The site furnishings will be organized into three basic room types — feast, lounge and arrow — to create places for a multitude of uses.

• Feast rooms are designed with food in mind. They create space to share lunch with a friend or eat solo and catch up on your emails on a beautiful day.
• Lounge rooms create space to slow down and stay for a bit. Visitors can take a moment to plan their next stop, downtown employees can pause in the shade for a moment between meetings and residents can enjoy the people watching for a while.
• Arrow rooms activate an area while also creating a clear delineation of space.

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These site furnishing room types will be paired with planter pots for visual color and interest and all furnishing groupings will be flexible, changeable and phased as a new evolution of place making and sensory experiences along 16th Street evolve for everyone’s enjoyment.

Play Features

Play Features are structures designed specifically for engaging kids on 16th Street. Scan the QR code to view a 360 degree rendering of the Hive play feature.

360 Degree Rendering of Hive Play Feature

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Moments of Joy are elements designed to bring a bit of delight to 16th Street; they make you smile, pause for a moment or snap a photo to share. Scan the QR codes to view 360 degree renderings of the Moments of Joy.

360 Degree Renderings:
Cutthroat Trout
Grasslands
Scattered Leaves

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FONSI & Appendices (PDF)

Errata Sheet (PDF)

Read the Environmental Assessment (PDF)

• Appendix A: Summary of Previous Studies (PDF)
• Appendix B: Technical Memoranda (PDF)
• Appendix C: Agency Coordination and Correspondence(PDF, 88MB) (PDF)
• Appendix D: Public Involvement (PDF)
• Appendix E: Scoping Summary Report (PDF)
• Appendix F: Conceptual Design of Locally Preferred Alternative (PDF)
• Appendix G: Draft Programmatic Agreement (PDF)

• Draft Section 4(f) Evaluation(PDF, 7MB)
• Final Section 4(f) Evaluation(PDF, 5MB)
• Appendices(PDF, 25MB)

Members of the public were invited to attend public meetings to provide input on the project and EA conclusions. The same information was presented at two meetings on May 1, 2019.

• View the meeting presentation (PDF)

FTA and the project partners reviewed and considered all comments. All comments received during the comment period will be part of the project record. Responses to all substantive comments (those that raise specific issues or concerns regarding the project or EA process, suggest new alternatives, or question or raise concerns over new impacts not addressed in the EA) will be included in the final decision document.

In March 2022 a round of outreach was completed to accompany 90% Design and to inform stakeholders about what to expect once construction begins.

Watch the 90% design video

In late 2021, the 16th Street Mall Project team completed another round of outreach to accompany the submittal of 60% design. This round focused on providing design updates for various amenities along 16th Street — shade structures, play elements and more. This video was recorded at one of the focus group meetings and focuses on how design of 16th Street amenities has evolved over the years, and the current design for elements along the 16th Street Mall.

Watch the 60% design video

February 2020 Open House

• Boards(PDF, 3MB)

Text Description of this Infographic(PDF, 65KB)

March 2018 Open House

On March 8, 2018, the city and RTD hosted open houses where the public could learn more, ask questions and give input on future refinement of the design. Review the open house materials:

• About the design ("locally preferred alternative") (PDF)
• Proposed lane alignments and analysis (PDF)
• The Mall Experience federal environmental review (NEPA) to date (PDF)
• Pavement options analysis (PDF)
• Tree and pattern studies (PDF)

October 2017 Open Houses

Attendees at two open house sessions learned about the 16th Street Mall, including the following:

1. Project Overview (PDF)
2. Existing Conditions and Environmental Resources (PDF)
3. History of the Mall and Previous Studies (PDF)
4. Input to Date (PDF)
5. Proposed Alternatives and Evaluation (PDF)
6. Next Steps (PDF)

View a summary of the October 2017 Open Houses (PDF)

July 2017 Open Houses

Attendees at two open house sessions learned about the 16th Street Mall, including the following:

1. Project overview (PDF)
2. Environmental process (PDF)
3. History of the mall - previous studies (PDF)
4. Existing conditions (PDF)
5. Next steps (PDF)
6. Evaluation criteria (PDF)

View a summary of Meet in the Street and the July 2017 Open Houses (PDF)

• 2007 Downtown Area Plan (PDF)
• 2010 16th Street Mall Urban Design Plan (PDF)
• Gehl Report, Small Steps Toward Big Change (PDF) and the 2016 appendix (PDF)
• RTD 16th Street Mall survey (PDF)