Articles

"The Art of Dirt" featured in The Denver Post

Date: 
8/12/10

910Arts featured in the Washington Park Profile

Date: 
5/17/10
"Architecture is about people, not the building," says Cheryl Spector, architect and developer of Nine10Arts, Denver's first eco-friendly artist complex. It's easy to gush about the "green" aspects of the one-time livery and bottling plant at 910 Santa Fe Drive ... But it's people “Denver's creative community" who led Spector to dream up the 24,600-square-foot redevelopment containing eight artist live/work lofts, 17 artist work studios, an event gallery, coffee house and open-air courtyard.

Nine10Arts - Doors Open Denver

Date: 
4/10/08
Located at 910 Santa Fe Drive in Denver, Nine10Arts is a community of professional artists that encompass 17 artist work studios, 8 live-work lofts, theGallery, and Studio 6 Coffee. I recently visited this space and was amazed by their goals to make this a sustainable project through green building principles, affordability, community oriented approaches and innovation.

Santa Fe Drive boasts country's highest concentration of galleries

Date: 
10/01/06
Not too long ago Santa Fe Drive was a rough neighborhood near the railroad tracks. Now it boasts the largest concentration of galleries in the United States, 40 in a few blocks, plus numerous architects' offices, photo galleries and shops, arts supplies stores and more.

GreenTech Building

Date: 
8/09/06
Last Friday, Cheryl Spector, an architect and developer of high performance (aka, green or sustainable) building, played docent on a tour of her latest project, Nine10Arts on Santa Fe Drive in Denver. "It's the first example of truly green building I've yet seen and it's stylin'".

Colorado Matters Interview (mp3)

Date: 
8/24/05
Architect and developer of the project Cheryl Spector talks about their plans to turn industrial warehouses into lofts, work studios, and gallery space for local artists on CPR's Colorado Matters.

Artists' new canvas: realty savvy Investment, funds sought amid tight, gentrified market

Date: 
1/05/03
It's a 20-year-old cat-and-mouse game: Artists seek cheap space in edgy neighborhoods, then developers and loft-seeking yuppies swoop in and price the artists out. But there is dwindling real estate to play this game, many artists contend, causing many in the arts community to worry about their future. Decades of development and gentrification have left artists fewer options.