As a burgeoning top-tier city, Denver boasts a rich history steeped in entrepreneurship, collaboration and commerce. These historical roots are evident in the numerous brick buildings throughout the downtown area

Places are powerful. Places will take front stage at the four-day Saving Places conference that kicks off Jan. 31 at the Colorado Convention Center. Last year, the Saving Places conference, sponsored by the nonprofit Colorado Preservation Inc., drew about 750 people. Architects, developers, planners, preservationists and others came from 40 Colorado counties and 17 states.…

Architect John David “Andy” Anderson had a message for Arnold Schwarzenegger. “We are very careful not to let people tear buildings down,” Mr. Anderson said in 1995, as the head of the powerful board called the Lower Downtown Design and Demolition Review Board.