My Neighborhood Makes Westword’s “Best of Denver 2010″

Of course, this isn’t what you would think. Denver’s Overland neighborhood sits nearly forgotten by investors, just southwest of Platt Park, west of DU and Rosedale, tucked between Broadway and Santa Fe, just south of Evans. We are the closest to the light rail stop and have a great housing stock including beautiful Craftsman style bungalows some of which still sell for under $200,000. Unfortunately, we didn’t make it in the people and places section. We made the shopping section but it wasn’t for shopping, but scavenging.

The award for “BEST DUMPSTER DIVING” goes to the alley between S. Broadway and Acoma St, just south of Evans.

“Downscale but diverse”, we are apparently the place to find everything from old bikes and “half-drunk cans of beer from a dive bar” to half a bag of jelly donuts. I guarantee the donuts were not from my house. We are an ‘up and coming neighborhood’. Even though we still have a few rough edges, we do have great garbage.

It’s nice to be recognized.

Maybe it’s a sign of the times.

[via Westword]