One thing that doesn't work is adding highway lanes.  It's like the fat guy who keeps buying a bigger belt.  I can see this place becoming another (smaller) Los Angeles - endless sprawl, strip malls, cookie cutter, cartoonish buildings,  heavy traffic everywhere, lots of illegals, and very expensive.  All I see now is more traffic, road construction everywhere, and new apartment buildings and condos going up in every place they can.  All the city cares about is tax revenue at the expense of everything else.

Having moved here in the '90s I am part of the problem.  Back then there wasn't much going on in Denver.  Downtown was a different place.

I have income properties.  Some day I plan on cashing out and getting the hell out of Dodge.