By Mark Sameulson | Out There Colorado
The Denver Planning Board on Wednesday approved a rezoning of the west end of Cherry Creek Shopping Center for a huge redevelopment that could bring seven office and apartment buildings — some to 13 stories high — on a site where the old Bed Bath & Beyond store now overlooks University Boulevard.
With the board’s unanimous vote on Wednesday, the Cherry Creek West project moves to the City Council for review and approval, despite worries from neighborhood groups that the planned development might grow larger still as its buildings come out of the ground over the next decade.
Representing a consortium of neighborhood groups, Lou Raders of the Cherry Creek Steering Committee appealed to city planners to better define the size of the project before approval. She and other community members told the board that planned urban development documents comprising the rezoning initiative fail to set specific limits on the scale of the undertaking, including the final numbers of buildings and their possible heights.