Union Station

The Kitchen Next Door, Snooze and a new restaurant and market from Alex Seidel will open in Union Station

Today, at 10:30 a.m., in front of the Oxford Hotel, Larimer Associates announced the names of three new restaurants that will take up residence in Union Station, the historic, century-old train depot that's currently being redeveloped by the Union Station Alliance. A new restaurant and market conc ... More >>

Union Station fire: Blazing truck endangers historic overhang

Things have gotten hot at Union Station, where two model-train clubs are scrambling to find new spaces for their train layouts, which have occupied space in the basement for decades. Although both groups had been told in the fall of 2011 that the layouts could remain through the remodeling job, and ... More >>

Union Station-booted model railroad club will make a stop at History Colorado

The Platte Valley & Western Railroad club started packing up its thirty-year-old model-train layout in the basement of Union Station last weekend, with no idea where the 2,000 square-foot display will eventually land. Union Station Alliance, the developer of Union Station, says it's "offered the ba ... More >>

Union Station: Model-train club packs up, new-home option isn't free

On Saturday, while thousands of freeloaders hopped on board the new West Line to ride light rail from downtown to Golden and back, members of the Platte Valley & Western Model Railroad club gathered in the dark basement of the shuttered Union Station and started dismantling the layout they'd initial ... More >>

Union Station's model trains might have reached the end of the line

Photos: Union Station's historic model trains still homeless -- but fans are stepping up

Since we broke the sad news yesterday that the two model-train layouts that have been in the basement of Union Station for decades -- eight decades, in one case -- will not be there when Union Station reopens in 2014, fans have been hopping on board to help find them a new home. And in the meantime, ... More >>

Union Station developers give beloved model train layout the boot

The beloved model-train layouts in the basement of Union Station have reached the end of the line. Back when two developers were competing for the contract to redevelop the facility, both promised there would always be a spot for the model trains -- and the clubs that ran them. And when those rail b ... More >>

Union Station to close Monday for renovations, so get a last look tomorrow

Union Station will close on Monday for renovations that include a boutique hotel -- part of a multi-million-dollar plan to turn the sleepy train station into a multi-modal hub. But the nostalgic among us have at least one more chance to take a last look: The DenverInfill blog and Union Station Advoc ... More >>

Photos: Union Station tour digs dirt on transit hub, light rail

On Saturday, city planner, urban explorer and overseer of the DenverInfill blog Ken Schroeppel took a handful of Denverites on a tour of Union Station to discuss the just-opened Light Rail Plaza and the station's future. Here's an inside look at the project.

Ten things to do for $10 this weekend, April 27-29, 2012

Whether you're an indoor- or outdoor-lover, a literature-aficionado or a film geek, this weekend is packed with something for everyone -- from a screening of His Royal Badness's 1984 classic Purple Rain to free admission at National Parks. And everything in our roundup is under $10! For a full calen ... More >>

All Aboard

LoDo parking on Rockies opening day: How high will costs rise?

LoDo is one of Denver's great success stories. While other historic parts of downtown were literally wiped off the map by urban "renewal" in the '70s -- which turned Victorian-era buildings into parking lots -- lower downtown is full of turn-of-the-last-century warehouses, all now repurposed for thi ... More >>

Cattle Call

Union Station parking disappears: Lots of luck parking your car in LoDo in 2012!

Still need to make a resolution for 2012? How about this: Don't try to park in LoDo. Now that RTD has chosen the Union Station Alliance to revamp the facility, the project to turn the area around the station into a multi-modal mainstay by 2014 is moving full speed ahead.

Reader: Union Station plans need to include some plumbing work

​People are excited to see something, anything go in to Union Station, which has long been filled with nothing but potential. Union Station Alliance, which won the nod from RTD to redevelop the historic building, has big plans for a retail/restaurant mix underneath the hotel that will go on th ... More >>

Union Station vote is tonight, but LoDo is already aglow

​The Regional Transportation District Board is scheduled to make a final decision on the redevelopment of Union Station tonight -- choosing between the proposal of the Union Station Neighborhood Co., which already has the contract to oversee the development behind the historic station, and the ... More >>

Union Station developer to be decided by RTD tomorrow, but LoDo is already aglow

​For decades, the area around Union Station was Denver's heart, the place where many people (myself included, on a train from Chicago) got their first glimpse of the city. But a century after Denver's founding, air travel was taking over the "Travel by Train" touted in neon above the station, ... More >>

Reader: All aboard for a Frasca food hall at Union Station!

​The RTD board won't decide which of two competing partnerships will redevelop Union Station until next Tuesday, but the Union Station Neighborhood Co. upped the ante this week by revealing that the market/food hall it's proposed to put in the historic space would be run by none other than the ... More >>

Lights, Lights, Action!

All Aboard!

Union Station: All aboard for saving the model train sets in the basement!

Like the Little Engine that Could, the come-from-behind proposal by the Union Station Alliance to redevelop Union Station just keeps chugging along. And at yesterday's executive session of the RTD board, it pulled ahead of its competitor, Union Station Neighborhood Co., which had been out in front e ... More >>

Gallery of the Future could move Union Station into a brave new world

Union Station, 1881​The two groups vying to win the contract to redevelop Union Station are both missing the boat, says one reader. Instead of building off the concepts of the past, they need to look to the future, to the "one-off-thinking of today's youth and young adults."

Union Station redevelopment will close off the tunnel, but not the memories

​I first stepped into Denver at Union Station. A group of families had taken the train out from Chicago for a ski vacation, and the kids had commandeered the dome car -- where, early the next morning, we woke to our first glimpse of the mountains. By breakfast, we'd pulled into Union Station - ... More >>

Denver Union Station redevelopment: Say goodbye to the pedestrian tunnel (VIDEO)

​Beginning tomorrow, as part of Denver Union Station's ambitious redevelopment into a modern transit hub, the historic station's underground pedestrian tunnel connecting Wynkoop and Wewatta streets will be closed. And here's the really bad news: It's never, ever going to reopen.

Fastracks public art is just knit right for Union Station: Kenny Be's Yard Arteology

Full-sized photo below.​The study of neighbors through lawn decoration... Now you don't have to drive all the way out to DIA to look at loopy public art. A quick trip to the Fastracks construction zone behind Union Station will have you slapping your head and screaming, "Knot again!" Behold t ... More >>

Free Union Station walking tours: Get up close and personal with Denver's big dig

​The rehabilitation of Denver's historic Union Station into a modern transit hub is one of the most complicated and ambitious projects ever attempted around here: a convoluted labyrinth of rail lines, bus infrastructure, pedestrian walkways and private development crammed into a crowded, histo ... More >>

Union Station: What comes next in Denver's ambitious rail plans, part 2

​Friday, February 6, was a very big day in Denver transit. The feds announced $304 million in loans for Union Station, completing the funding necessary for the new transit hub, as well as essentially committing to a $1 billion injection over several years for several future FasTracks rail lin ... More >>

FasTracks: What comes next in Denver's ambitious rail plans, part 1

​Last Friday was a very big day in Denver transit. The feds announced $304 million in loans for Union Station, completing the funding necessary for the new transit hub, as well as essentially committing to a $1 billion injection over several years for several future FasTracks rail lines. Th ... More >>

A more detailed look at Union Station's future

Union Station train hall​The planned rehabilitation of Denver Union Station is incredibly ambitious - and we're not just talking about cobbling together enough funding to afford its $500 million price tag. The plan involves coordinating commuter rail, light rail, a bus terminal, historic struc ... More >>

Union Station project gets facelift before it's even begun

​As the final pieces of the funding puzzle behind the $500 million rehab of Union Station fall into place, the project is finally poised to begin. But lately, what, exactly, the final development will look like has been shifting considerably, and not all observers are happy about the changes. ... More >>

Union Station gets the Ken Burns treatment

Denver Union Station: Portal to Progress - Trailer from Havey Productions on Vimeo.As plans move forward to transform Denver Union Station into a modern transit hub, folks want to make sure the old depot's past doesn't get left behind. The latest effort is a new documentary called Denver Union Stati ... More >>

Union Station shindig blows the roof off the depot

The Denver Public Library Western History and Geneology's Digital Image Catalog.This was sort of what the party looked like... but with more color.​For a while last night during "A Night in Old Union Station," a swanky fundraising shindig that took over Denver's central depot, the grand old ra ... More >>

Welcome Back, Mizpah

Just how threatened is the Union Station redevelopment project?

​A Denver Post story today noted that an unprecedented attempt to score up to $320 million in loans from two federal agencies in order to bankroll the still woefully underfunded Union Station redevelopment could be on the rocks because the project's managers haven't been able to get a favorabl ... More >>

Rocktober derails Union Station gala -- temporarily

The Denver Public LibraryThe original Mizpah Arch​Everything was in place for one of the biggest social events of the season. Union Station was primed to host "A Night in Old Union Station," a swanky, Victorian-themed gala, on October 15, with tickets set at $40 to $200 to raise money for a re ... More >>

Union Station redevelopment consumes some of LoDo's best free parking

View Larger Map Big news on the transportation front: The long-awaited redevelopment of Union Station into a new transportation hub got underway yesterday. Sure, it's just some preliminary work on utility lines, but considering the lengthy and convoluted back story to the redevelopment, just the fac ... More >>

Beers and Brewhahas: Union Station vs. government agencies, developers and civic groups

​If the president can do it, so can everyone else. What Colorado needs now are more sudsy sit-downs. Here's an example (see our previous pairings here and here): Dispute: Union Station vs. government agencies, developers and civic groups Beer: Wynkoop Brewing Company's Light Rail Ale C'mon, ... More >>

The plans for Union Station could be off-track

Wake-Up Call: All aboard for a wonky week

I'm looking over the Platte Valley at the sliver of the "Travel by Train" sign I can still on Union Station through pricy lofts and office buildings constructed over the last few years. And some day there will be a lot more of them, if current plans for the revelopment of Union Station play out -- ... More >>

ColoRail -- and its lawyers -- aim to derail current Union Station project

Union Station Lately, the Union Station redevelopment plan has been cruising along nicely, with one political roadblock after another falling to the wayside. Last month, the citizen-based Open Space Initiative Group all but capitulated in its efforts to have the project's developers ditch plans to ... More >>

Union Station developers move forward on controversial wing buildings

Union Station Neighborhood Company One of the most contentious aspects of Union Station's ambitious redevelopment -- the construction of two modern wing buildings on either side of the historic station -- is poised to move forward. Yesterday, the Union Station Neighborhood Company, the master devel ... More >>

Union Station Advocates weigh in -- mildly -- on proposed station architecture

Courtesy of Skidmore Owings Merrill The proposed Union Station train shed As noted in the blog "New Architectural Images Released of Denver International Airport. Oh, Wait, That's Denver Union Station," the developers behind the ongoing Union Station project recently unveiled new architectural conc ... More >>

New architectural images released of Denver International Airport. Oh, wait, that's Denver Union Station.

Courtesy of Skidmore Owings Merrill The proposed Union Station train shed While debate continues over the planned construction of two wing buildings in front of Denver's Union Station as part of the historic station's transformation into a new transit hub, some of the attention -- and debate -- may ... More >>

Playing the name game with Union Station’s new public spaces

Union Station progress – and protest – continues

Street scenes from the DNC

Weekend Update

Happily Railroaded

All aboard for summer fun.

Off Limits

On the block

Letters to the Editor

From the week of April 19, 2001