Officials overseeing Denver’s sprawling National Western Center say they have found a development team that can bring a hotel, a parking garage and an equestrian center to the campus thatR…
Construction proceeds on a new livestock center on the National Western Center campus in northern Denver on Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Plans to build a neighboring equestrian center have been on hold since 2022 while partners work to iron out a new development strategy, one that potentially will also bring a hotel to the city-owned land. Thursday’s announcement marks a tentative step forward for a critical missing piece of the National Western Center landscape.
City leaders say an existing voter-approved tax stream — 2015’s 2C tax on hotel stays and rental cars — will help pay for the new facilities. The city and the new development team, collectively dubbed Community Activation Partners, have entered into what’s called a “predevelopment agreement” and will now embark on gathering more community feedback and continuing design work for the trio of facilities.
But city officials quietly took the equestrian center off the development plan in 2022. The project’s budget, which has exceeded $1 billion in city, state and private money, was too tight to pay for that facility at the scale city leaders wanted after construction costs skyrocketed in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Bouchard
“This collaboration represents a significant step forward in our mission to convene the world at the National Western Center to lead, inspire, create, educate and entertain in pursuit of global food solutions,” National Western Center CEO Brad Buchanan said in a statement. “Adding the equestrian center, hotel and parking garage to the campus will provide exceptional benefit to our customers and community partners.
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