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4-letter shops in the works

Submitted by garbanzito on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 18:18
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businesses with four-letter names are popping up on Broadway; one in a space formerly occupied by a business with a four-letter name; also some related news for businesses with longer names …

free DUG bike tour in Baker Saturday 6 Aug

Submitted by garbanzito on Fri, 08/05/2011 - 14:01
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Fairmont Dual Immersion Academy

tour gardens by bicycle through Baker from 10 to 1 this Saturday — Denver Urban Gardens (DUG) sponsors “a leisurely tour through six DUG community gardens, ending with a garden potluck”; tour starts at the garden on the south side of Fairmont Dual Immersion Academy; RSVP required, more info on the DUG site (linked above)

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6 Aug 2011 - 10:00am - 1:00pm

phases of the Valley Highway EIS

Submitted by garbanzito on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 01:39
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this graphic from page 10 of the Valley Highway EIS is annotated to highlight the first four phases of construction and the proposed Bayaud bike/ped bridge

getting to the South Platte River from Baker

Submitted by garbanzito on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 01:14
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the South Platte River Greenway has miles of bicycle/pedestrian trails and connections to other trails; it is a major recreation and transportation asset to the Baker neighborhood, but have you ever tried to get to the Platte River Trail from Baker? if you have, you know your choices are awkward and limited

ped/bike bridges in the Alameda Station Area Plan

Submitted by garbanzito on Fri, 03/11/2011 - 00:59
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this graphic from page 21 of the Alameda Station Area Plan is annotated with the locations of new bicycle/pedestrian bridges the plan supports

the blessing of the bicycles

Submitted by garbanzito on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 20:45
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part of a rag-tag group of thirty or so bicyclists (and one person in an electric six-wheeled chair) on Ellsworth Ave.; this was the halfway point of a brief tour through Baker after the recent Blessing of the Bicycles by House for All Sinners and Saints on 27 June; the blessing itself took place at Four Winds Church, 501 Bannock

Baker's southernmost residents live here

Submitted by garbanzito on Sun, 04/04/2010 - 22:07
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this tent, a few feet from Baker's extreme southwest corner at the Mississippi Avenue bridge over South Platte River, surely houses Baker's southernmost residents; at the time of the snapshot no one was home at this very vulnerable-looking campsite, close to rushing traffic on both the bridge and northbound Santa Fe Dr.

Baker's biggest park: Dailey or Milstein?

Submitted by garbanzito on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 02:35
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Location: 
Phil Milstein Park and Platte Trail
Dailey Park

most people think Dailey Park is the biggest park in Baker, but another park, Phil Milstein Park, is tucked into the extreme northwestern corner of Baker's boundaries; it's a long, skinny park tucked against the South Platte River; if you reach it by normal means (the Platte River Trail), you actually have to leave Baker to get to it

but how big is Milstein? how big is Dailey?

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