Lower Downtown Denver

I got off work early today and decided to bike downtown, despite the 98 degree heat.  I wound up biking around Lower Downtown, Denver's nightclub district.  It was once a neighborhood of warehouses, but is now the most historic and lively part of downtown.  This is because in the 1960s, thanks to urban renewal,  many of the truly beautiful and historic buildings of the late 1800s were torn down in Denver and made into parking lots.  It is nice that everyone is so concerned about historic preservation these days, but it is a shame that consciousnesses couldn't have been raised a few decades earlier.  Yes, in this case, the glass is half empty.