Jefferson Park, Denver

Downtown Denver and the Central Platte Valley are quickly accessed from Jefferson Park, using the 23rd Avenue overpass on I-25 and Water Street.

In addition, the Light Rail C-Line is located by Empower Field at Mile High in the southern part of the neighborhood.

The boundaries of the neighborhood are: Although previous claims were made to an area called Highland on the northwest side of the South Platte River,[2][3] the first recognized by the U.S. Government was included in An Act for the Relief of the Citizens of Denver, on May 28, 1864.

Londoner simply told the poorly connected citizens of Highland that the price of a viaduct across the rail yards and the Platte River was annexation.

After the building boom that occurred following the end of World War II, there was very little vacant property left in North Denver.

Properties in Jefferson Park were abandoned for the suburbs, and as the recession of the late 1970s and early 1980s hit Denver violence and crime increased throughout the neighborhood.

By the 1990s Jefferson Park's location, affordable housing, and neighborhood feel brought it back to the attention of the city and home-buyers that were tired of long commutes and wanted an urban lifestyle.

Eventually, Jefferson Park United Neighbors (or JPUN) was formed in 2000, after a controversial large-scale development by Sullivan-Hayes twas proposed.

The neighbors formed JPUN, created by-laws, and fought Sullivan-Hayes by talking to their council people and Mayor Wellington Webb.

Single family homes from the late 19th century stand next to apartment complexes built in the 1950s and a current boon of development at the turn of the millennium.