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Not to mention Denver is Southwest Airlines' busiest airport.

Right. And the Front Range Urban Corridor has 5 million people and represents about 87% of the state's population.

El Paso County is actually 14 times the area of the City & County of Denver. The Denver-Aurora-Lakewood MSA is at 2.97 million but that does not include Boulder County, which the Census Bureau has designated as its own MSA even though it is considered locally as an inextricable part of the Denver metro area (referred to locally as the Denver-Boulder metro area) and has been included in the Denver MSA in decades past. With Boulder added, that puts the Denver-Boulder metro area at 3.33 million (2021). The Denver-Aurora CSA, which adds in another adjacent county, is at 3.64 million in 2021.

The first DenverInfill semi-annual development summary of the 2020s has just been published. Check it out here: https://denverinfill.com/2022/07/sum...l-summary.html Quick takeaways for the Downtown Denver survey area: Completed Since January 1, 2020: 4,757 multifamily housing units, 1.476 million SF office space, 826 hotel rooms in 31 projects/35 buildings 22 buildings in the 5–9 story range 12 buildings in the 10–19 story range 1 building in the 20+ story range Currently Under Construction: 8,624 multifamily housing units, 1.359 million SF office space, 478 hotel rooms in 40 projects/41 buildings 20 buildings in the 5–9 story range 17 buildings in the 10–19 story range 4 buildings in the 20+ story range Active Proposed Projects (development review activity with city planning department in 2022): 24,951 multifamily housing units, 2.948 million SF office space, 1,048 hotel rooms in 111 projects/123 buildings 48 buildings in the 5–9 story range 52 buildings in the 10–19 story range 23 buildings in the 20+ story range Note: Projects listed above include only new vertical construction (no adaptive reuse or building renovations), and only buildings 5 stories or more (no town homes, 3 or 4-story buildings, etc.). Here's a graphic visualizing only the current Under Construction and Proposed projects within the Downtown Denver survey area.