When urban pioneer Dana Crawford and other developers began transforming Lower Downtown into a hip urban scene in the 1960s, they had old shop fronts and warehouses to work with.
By the time Coors Field arrived in LoDo in 1995, most of that historic stock had already been turned into lofts, leaving the neighborhood ready for a sleek, new “loft” look that would be a sharp contrast to the genuine originals.
East West Partners remade the old cityscape west of Union Station into that vision, crossing the rail tracks into Riverfront, where 23-story Glass House opened in 2007 — its highly transparent units literally flying off the shelf…