Building for the Future: Peter Park is in the urban-planning game for good
“A year ago, Hickenlooper all but kidnapped the 41-year-old planner from Milwaukee in order to make him Denver’s new Director of Community Planning and Development. Park quickly acquired some very non-simulated tasks, such as overhauling the city’s cumbersome zoning code and guiding the implementation of 2002’s ambitious land-use/transportation plan Blueprint Denver as well as the recently approved FasTracks. Throw in the redevelopment of Stapleton, the Central Platte Valley and three more large-scale infill projects, and this city becomes a tremendous undertaking — and opportunity — for the new-urbanist planner credited with reinventing Milwaukee’s battered urban core.”
Maher, Jared Jacang. Westword 6 January 2005.