Sherman Street Historic District

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About this Neighborhood

The Sherman Street Historic District sits in Denver's Capitol Hill belt, where Victorian rowhouses and 1920s apartment buildings face a neighborhood that has been slowly gentrifying since at least the 1990s without completing the process. Thirty-seven restaurants are in-line with cohort but include City O' City (the vegetarian institution that has somehow always been here), Benny Blanco's Slice of the Bronx, and Le Central — a French restaurant on Pennsylvania Avenue that continues to exist through force of will. Coffee at 13 outlets, also in-line, includes Metropolis Coffee and Gather and eiskaffee — the mix of sincere independent and small chain that signals a neighborhood approaching but not yet fully achieving café saturation. Grocery is the clear gap: just 5 stores at -1.28 standard deviations below average, Capitol Market and a Whole Foods covering a residential density that needs more. Civic Center Park functions as the neighborhood's front yard — the protest venue, concert space, and lunch destination that gives this district its civic gravity. Eight parks total, four fitness venues including CorePower. The climate_ready tag is earned — Denver's elevation and green ambitions show up in the infrastructure.

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