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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

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

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

Collective Land

Community Voice

Our Story

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

The CLT Takes Root

2019

Development Pressure

2020

Pandemic and Rebuilding

2021

Campaign for the Land

David Torres speaks from the porch of his old family home during a protest against public-private partnerships on the “Triangle” parcel of the National Western Complex development site. June 26, 2021.

Current

Growth and Transition

John Doe
John Doe

Executive Director
Email: John@GES.org

Jane Doe
Jane Doe

Executive Director
Email: Jane@GES.org

Jessica Doe
Jessica Doe

Executive Director
Email: Jessica@GES.org

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