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Property Types in the Pilot Program Area
What types of properties have the potential for adaptive reuse? In
order to determine appropriate strategies for implementing and
facilitating an adaptive reuse program, understanding the range of
property types conducive to adaptive reuse is important. The fol-
lowing section provides a description of typical property types and
their key features, as derived from research in the study area, the
approximately five-mile stretch of East Colfax from Broadway to
Yosemite Street. Photographs of buildings along Colfax, which are
grouped into categories that correspond to many of the features
described in the sections below, appear in Appendix A.

Lot size
Many of the lots along the East Colfax corridor are small, often
with a narrow depth or width. Others are medium to large in size.
The larger lots are often utilized for motels, car sales lots, and oth-
er uses that require a large parking area. Medium-size lots include As seen above, property types range
a variety of uses that also are auto-oriented, such as strip malls greatly along the East Colfax corri-
and auto repair. dor.

Completed for the East and East Central Area Plan efforts, the maps above identify lots along the East Colfax corridor
that are shallow. This may lead to challenges meeting current codes in order to adaptively reuse the site and building.

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