Parkhill Community will oversee the environmental remediation, demolition and cleanup of Dahlia Square at East 33rd Avenue and Dahlia Street. It spans two full blocks and was built on top of a landfill.
Dahlia Square has been a blighted area that the city has long tried to clean up, notes Tracy Huggins, executive director of DRUA. In order to facilitate cleanup and demolition, all tenants, with the exception of Denver Health's Parkhill Clinic, have already vacated the site. Denver Health's clinic will stay open at its current Dahlia Square facility until October 31. Then it will move to new, temporary quarters at East 38th Avenue and Holy Street.
Parkhill Community, in conjunction with Arcadis/G&M, will direct andoversee environmental remediation and demolition of the Dahlia Square site under a contract with DURA. The city has allocated $3.5 million toDURA for the site's initial cleanup and demolition to prepare it for potential redevelopment. DURA will also be issuing a request for proposals later this spring for companies seeking to develop the property once the site is remediated, cleared and ready for use. Site cleanup is planned to begin by the end of June and is targeted for completion by October 2006.
Huggins says people who live in the area want the redevelopment to beprimarily residential, with some neighborhood retail.
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