If your plan does not start with increased police funding/patrols, getting rid of the open air drug markets and homeless (criminal illegal alien) camps then I hate to break it to you.. Nothing you do will help. People don't want to go downtown when that is all they run into. Highest car theft in the country for a major metro. Needles on the street. Tweakers robbing people and smashing in your car windows... Yeah, no thanks. Archive: https://archive.today/rXHYA From the post: >>City leaders have zeroed in on a strategy they hope can break downtown Denver out of what Mayor Mike Johnston has described as the area’s post-COVID “doom loop.” The key to that strategy: the expansion of an obscure special taxing authority that played a key part in downtown’s last big boom.