Coors Stadium, the home of the Rockies major league baseball team, is a key draw in upgrading LoDo, or Lower Downtown. The city also has the Denver Broncos in the National Football league, the Nuggets in basketball and the Avalanche in hockey. In the foothills of the Rockies only a half hour drive away, out past Golden, where Coors beer is made, are a number of casino towns. But the big draws to Colorado are the magnificent Rocky Mountains scenery and recreation areas. A great Denver amenity is the conversion of a mile of 16th Street, a major backbone between LoDo and the state capitol district, into a free bus mall.
Trams pass each stop every few minutes.
It is in reach of most hotels, a lot of shopping and not far from the new convention center and performing arts complex. Thus life in Denver can be a winner, even if the weather may not always be. There's a gathering of animals at a Botswana, Africa, watering hole where you seem to see for miles and almost think you can walk into. You also enter remote parts of the high Rockies in other exhibit halls, see the terrain, animals and birds up close. Certainly we should build on our East-West position, our educational assets, our potential for scientific research in all the areas from the ocean bottoms to deep space, and high tech to flesh out our key tourism and military industries.