Denver - 16th Street Mall

In an effort to bring a little more life into downtown Denver amid the skyscrapers 16th Street, which runs through the city center, has been made a European-style pedestrian precinct, with shady trees, flowerbeds and park benches, in which the only traffic is a free shuttle bus. The street is lined with department stores, boutiques, souvenir shops, restaurants and the stalls of street traders (mostly "Indios" from Latin America). Particularly round the south end of the street there are numerous modern and Post-Modern skyscrapers. Among the tallest are the 56-storey Republic Plaza, the 690ft/210m high United Bank Center, the Denver Post Tower, the Amoco Building, the Anaconda Tower and the Denver Club Building.