“A new business called Melody Market recently opened in Five Points with a goal of providing more access to fresh fruits and vegetables for residents living nearby. “Melody Market is this idea that there’s a melody to Five Points,” said LaSheita Sayer, Melody Market’s owner. “There’s an integration of different notes. When you think … [Read more…]
“Jazz music, soul food, and black entrepreneurship once flowed through the Five Points neighborhood as fluidly as the light rail now runs up and down Welton Street. After years of gentrification, Denver native Akiala I said she’s working to restore the neighborhood’s culture by buying back the neighborhood, block by block. “Buildings being demolished, … [Read more…]
“Thousands of people have signed a petition to bring a historically Black neighborhood back to its roots. The online petition calls on Denver Mayor Michael Hancock and neighborhood developers to revert RiNo, River North Arts District, back to its original name of Five Points. According to the Arts District, RiNo is nonprofit arts organization, … [Read more…]
“…. In the three census tracts that make up Denver’s once-black Five Points and Curtis Park neighborhoods, the poverty rate among whites, who now make up about six in 10 residents, is 11 percent. Among blacks it is 43%, data provided by Shift Research Lab shows. The share of white owner-occupied homes is 78%. … [Read more…]
“As violent clashes with police marred protests nationwide over the death of George Floyd, thousands of people peacefully marched through Denver’s streets on Monday night, walking from downtown and into the heart of the city’s historically black neighborhoods of Five Points and Curtis Park, before kneeling with fists raised in the street in front … [Read more…]
“Kellie Plessinger lives in Aurora now but she grew up in Denver around a notorious strip of East Colfax that, back in the day, may have inspired conservative columnist George Will’s infamous line comparing this street to a warzone. Plessinger works at the Ranch House Cafe at Colfax and Syracuse Street. In the late … [Read more…]
“Carolyn Chavez has called Denver’s Sun Valley neighborhood home for 66 years. It’s where she raised six children, and eventually, five of her 10 grandchildren. For decades, she watched friends and family move elsewhere; neighborhood children go off to college or fall into the grips of addiction. She was there when the new Mile … [Read more…]
“The 27th Street Storm Drain is one of several large diameter storm drain projects that the City and County of Denver has identified to relieve drainage and flooding issues in the Five Points Neighborhood. The 27th Street Storm Drain project includes approximately 5,900 linear feet of large storm pipe ranging in size from 78 inches … [Read more…]
“I was born and raised in Denver, in the suburbs of Montbello and Green Valley Ranch. Since 2010, I’ve worked in Five Points along Welton Street between 26th and 29th. I rented a duplex at the corner of 26th and Downing that was owned by a Black family, who later sold the property to … [Read more…]
“I am a Denver native and a 22 year resident of the Five Points neighborhood. Over the past 18 years I have helped countless families move in and out of Five Points in my job as a realtor. Most of my clients move into Five Points for a sense of community believing that a … [Read more…]