Making HEadlines
march 2024
How a Denver neighborhood came together to buy their first community-owned green space
A community land trust known as Tierra Colectiva is buying a plot of land, bordered by railroad tracks and a metal manufacturing plant, to convert into a community-owned green space and urban food forest. It’s a first for the neighborhood.
January 2024
Green space vs. Gentrification: Who will win?
How do Western mythologies-of cowboys, self-sufficiency and wide open spaces-shape today’s cities? With the annual stock show underway in north Denver, join HCN for a conversation about infrastructure, green space and community hopes for contested land.
December 2024
Tierra Colectiva and GES Coalition Intend to Purchase Vacant Land for Food Forest – GES Gazette
The GES Coalition held a food sale Dec. 2 to raise funds to acquire a vacant plot of land in Swansea. The property, located at 4790 Josephine St., if acquired by Tierra Colectiva Community Land Trust, would transform into a food forest and community space and would be purchased in collaboration by the GES Coalition, Tierra Colectiva and Tierras Verdes.
Community Organizing
- March 2024: Mayor Johnston pledges ‘community ownership’ for the last slice of the National Western Center
- March 2024: Caravan Through Neighborhood Starts and Ends with Commitments to Community – GES Gazette
- January 2024: Green Space vs. Gentrification: Who Will Win?
- June 2023: GES Coalition Maps Out What It Wants on ‘Triangle’ Land – GES Gazette
- February 2023: GES Coalition Seeks to Revitalize Public Parcels in Neighborhoods – GES Gazette
Collective Land
- March 2024: How a Denver neighborhood came together to buy their first community-owned green space
- December 2023: Tierra Colectiva and GES Coalition Intend to Purchase Vacant Land for Food Forest – GES Gazette
- November 2023: Affordable Housing Projects Move Forward – GES Gazette
- May 2023: 4995 Washington Building Starts to Take Shape – GES Gazette
Community Voice
- March 2024: GES Coalition Public Statement on the NWC federal dollars
- January 2024: Council approves Near Northwest Area Plan, providing a blueprint for how Northside neighborhoods will look in the future – Denverite, the Denver site!
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