FORNEY REDEVELOPMENT 1978 thru 1988

	Phase I     Phase II     Economics This project was the most fun I ever has packaging any commercial real estate venture. I had over 100 meetings with old JD Forney who was in his late 80's and could not hear. It started concurrently with the Westbank project and was planned as a $22 million venture, but the recession hit in 1982 and nothing was moving. So I cut the project back to a smaller $5 million event and media center as shown in Phase I  to hold onto the  site until the market recovered, but was unable to raise the funds.

        The Location on the Platte River
  Located at the historical confluence of the Platte River and Cherry Creek which also has  a1500 seat amphitheater. The museum occupied a building that was genrated power for the original trolley car system in Denver.

The Site

The Setting

	The Forney Museum had collected over 300 pieces of transport including Truman's dining car (right), trolley cars, locomotives, autos and even a flying car. The motive of the owner was to create an activity center that would bring in more people and more revenue to the museum for decades to come. The venture was based on a land lease.