![]() ![]() With a recently opened rail line that connects the airport to downtown a rapidly growing talent pool and hot business and real estate climate in Denver a geographically advantageous position and plenty of land to work with DEN has all the raw inputs to advance as a dynamic airport city of global significance. Today, DEN is the primary economic engine for the state of Colorado, generating more than $26 billion for the region annually, but with strategic investment it could multiply its impact. ![]() For a sense of scale, DEN has greater acreage than the entire city of Boston. In fact, it is second only to Dubai’s International Airport based on sheer footprint. In a forward-looking move, DEN’s founders amassed some of the largest land-holdings of any airport in the world. With the IGA in place, DEN engaged Sasaki to lead the creation of the Denver International Airport Strategic Development Plan for the airport’s non-aviation land holdings. That is, until 2015, when DEN and its neighbors amended an intergovernmental agreement (IGA) allowing DEN to move forward with development plans that will benefit both the airport and surrounding communities. It’s here where we see how globalization will reshape our cities, lives, and culture.” įor years, DEN has excited those within aviation, civic, business, and development circles, but until recently did not have the legal basis to engage fully in non-aviation real estate development. And if you look closely at the aerotropolis, what appears to be sprawl is slowly evolving into a system reducing both. One scholar on the subject, John Karsada, contends great cities have always sprung up around transportation hubs and the cities of our future will expand around airports, growing into what he dubs the aerotropolis: “The three rules of real estate have changed from location, location, location, to accessibility, accessibility, accessibility. As DEN refines its vision of what a global airport-and airport city-should be, they are thinking through the entire user experience, from first impressions in the air or on the ground, to everyday experiences visiting and working at DEN, to a passenger’s last moments on the jetbridge before boarding a flight.Ĭultivation of airport cities is an emerging development strategy shaped by urban planners, civic leaders, airport executives, and academics. What if people on the ground were to capitalize on this precious moment of realization and awe? What if that quilt of color were actually deliberately woven with the viewer’s experience in mind? This is one idea getting traction with DEN Real Estate, the real estate development group at Denver’s International Airport (DEN). The moment this aerial patchwork pattern starts to resemble a quilt of colored fabric-square acres reading as mere square inches-is the moment a flyer becomes acutely aware of their immense distance from the earth and the wonder of air travel. And yet, no matter how many times one sees the earth from this vantage point, it never gets old. For the regular air traveler, this is a familiar sight: a vast patchwork of colored landscape, seams of streets and fences dividing one field of color from the next, extending in every direction until the horizon blurs. ![]()
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