The Wellington Webb Municpal Building in downtown Denver is located along Colfax Ave near the landmark Denver City and County Building, and the Colorado State Capitol.
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"The Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building is a beacon at the center of the City governmental heartbeat. The philosophy behind its origin was to create a central location for over 50 City agencies. Ultimately, this provides the taxpayers a means to efficiently conduct business with a range of city departments and agencies. Currently the building is occupied by the City Auditor’s office, the District Attorneys office, Public Works, Planning and Development, and the Department of Economic Development to name a few.
The ownership of The Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building is unique in that it was developed for the City and County of Denver by Mile High Development LLC and owned by a non-profit entity, CCOB, Inc. which was formed by Mile High, and leased to the City for 25 years.
In addition to the obvious benefit to provide public access to the most frequently visited agencies, the Webb building has pushed the envelope in municipal architecture. The buildings uniqueness is rooted in its whimsical incorporation of art on each level. Creative artists from around the country partnered with the City to successfully blend sculpture, paint, and metal work to create a vibrant blend of form and function.
The 704,000 sqft, Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building houses over 1,800 employees from 52 agencies and subagencies of the City and County of Denver.
The building is a 12-story office tower with 571 underground parking spaces and 100 bike lockers and includes renovation of the 88,000 square foot Annex building. Building exterior is limestone and granite with high performance, low-E curtainwall glazing. Interior is granite, wood paneling, and carpet accents, dramatic lighting with permanent and changing art and civic exhibits. The building is also LEED certified.
Mile High Development managed the design build process, installation of $10 million of FF&E and the move management of 1860 City employees and equipment into this facility."
The Lincoln Highway makes a deep loop off the US 30 to take in the major city of Denver CO. The routes of the early US highways frequently made such loops because they depended on communities that were willing to subsidize their constriction in the days before Federal finding. If a city was willing to throw money at a highway, the highway would come down and pass through it.
The primary route of the Lincoln Highway to Denver (and a secondary loop to Greely CO) can be explored here: (
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At Big Springs Nebraska the Lincoln Highway created a loop route to Denver. The direct Lincoln Hwy route followed the US 30 west to Cheyenne, while the loop route dipped southeast down the US 138/I-76 to Merino CO, where the route zig-zagged along the old US 6/I-76 to Brush CO, before turning due west along US 34/I-76 Business Route to Fort Morgan CO. At Fort Morgan, the LH loop route divided again into a primary loop route that zig-zagged (in the manner of early American highways) southwest to Denver on state highways, and secondary loop route to Denver via Greely CO. This secondary loop route tracked along the US 34 to Greely, where it tuned south on the US 85 to Denver. The primary route to Denver from Fort Morgan followed SH 6 to Wiggins, then proceeded south to Bennet CO on US 6 to US 36. The US 36 runs with the US 40 and US 287 west of Denver.
In Denver the US 87 runs as College Blvd. At the College Blvd. intersection with Colfax Ave., US 87 joins US 36/40/287 to run west through downtown.
On the western edge of Denver, the Lincoln Highway turned onto 14thright on Federal Blvd/US 287, then followed the US 287 to Fort Collins CO, where it turned east to join the old US 87 to Cheyenne. US 36 and US 40 peeled off the Lincoln Highway west of downtown Denver and continued west to Rocky Mountain National Park (US 36) and Winter Park CO (US 40).