Public restrooms to be installed on 16th Street Mall
Two public restrooms will be installed as part of a program aimed at addressing a need for publicly accessible restrooms in the central part of the city. Author: Victor Hernandez Updated: 5:40 PM MST March 3, 2021
DENVER The City of Denver on Wednesday announced its plan to permanently install two public restrooms on Champa Street, near the 16th Street Mall.
Denver said in a release that the new restrooms would be ready for use this spring after utility connections and other site work details currently underway are complete. I m proud to have worked with city agencies to launch the creative, mobile restroom program that expanded access to sanitation for those who are away from home or living without one in Central Denver, said At-large Denver City Councilwoman Robin Kniech. Today the vision of using what we ve learned from the mobile restroom pilot to create lasting infrastructure take
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Villarosa, now ninety years old, says she’s thrilled to be back in Denver. “I love the city,” she says. “I love the people. And I loved being a bookseller. The light in the children’s eyes when they saw the books. They were pretty, they were well-illustrated, and [the characters] looked like them.”
Villarosa’s Hue-Man Experience bookstore had a notable run at the edge of Five Points, at Champa Street and Park Avenue West. That successful store inspired local readers from its inception in 1984 until Villarosa sold it in 2000 and moved to Harlem in New York City to be near her daughters and grandchildren. She opened a new location there under the same name.