Vertix Builders last month broke ground on Zeppelin Development’s Kabin, 194 workforce housing units in River North at 3461 Ringsby Court. 

In the booming RiNo Art District northeast of downtown Denver, The Source Hotel’s Nordic-meets-industrial design is a sleek, stark and ultimately apt counterpoint to the historic foundry-turned-food hall of the same name next door. 

This is a good time for American cities. After half a century of decline, people are craving the communality of urban environments and all that cities have to offer. Post-war urban planning, through programs such as the Federal Highway Act, slum clearance and the Model Cities Initiative, often damaged the urban fabric.

Zeppelin Station, a 100,000-square-foot creative workplace and market hall located at the 38th and Blake Station of the RTD commuter rail line in Denver’s River North neighborhood, will open next week.