Where in the city of Denver are we planting a church?

We are concentrating our planting efforts in the Curtis Park and Five-Points neighborhoods, which are north-east of downtown Denver. According to the Downtown Denver Partnership, Inc., here are the history and profiles of these two neighborhoods. (It is a bit long, but very fascinating!):

Five-Points:
While the name "Five Points" is often applied to the greater neighborhood to the northeast of Downtown, Five Points is also widely known as the busy retail, restaurant and services corridor on Welton Street. Since Five Points' founding in the 1860s as one of Denver's first residential suburbs, this area around Welton Street has evolved into a vibrant mixed-use district that today offers a direct link to Downtown Denver via RTD's light rail line.
The Five Points area got its name early this century from the city's tramway company, who used the nickname because their street car signs were not big enough to list all of the street names at this end-of-the-line stop. RTD's light rail line connects Five Points with Downtown via Welton Street, which bustles with 75 businesses, including restaurants, cafes, boutique shops, barber shops, salons and other retailers. A bank, radio station and bottled water distributor also have Welton Street addresses. Welton Street is the only predominantly African-American owned commercial strip in the country.
This commercial district was a requisite stop for the world's premier African-American jazz musicians--including Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, and countless others--who stopped in Denver on their way between midwest and west coast tours to play in Five Points clubs and performance halls. Many of them stayed at the historic Rossonian Hotel, which still stands today.
Five Points features many cultural amenities, including the Black American West Museum, the brand new Blair-Caldwell African American Research Library, Brother JeffÕs Cultural Center & CafŽ, Roundtree Art Center and the nationally-recognized Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble studios. Five Points' Juneteenth celebration--an annual parade and festival commemorating the day in 1865 when African-Americans in Texas first heard word of the Emancipation Proclamation--is one of the biggest such festivals in America, attracting upwards of 120,000 people over four days each year.
New housing developments are popping up in Five Points, including Downing Street Station at 29th & Downing and The Point at 26th & Washington. Both have great connections to Downtown Denver via light rail.

Curtis Park:
Curtis Park was developed in the 1860s and 1870s as a fashionable residential suburb north of Downtown Denver. Today, Curtis Park remains one of the center city's most accessible neighborhoods for Downtown workers, characterized by its tree-lined streets, its broad range of housing types, and its social, economic and ethnic diversity.
Curtis Park's housing mix is wide ranging: single story duplexes stand next door to recently renovated grand Victorian mansions; flat-roofed rowhouses next to classic, two-story Denver Square brick houses; Queen Anne-style houses with second floor porches are also numerous. There are three designated historic districts in the Curtis Park neighborhood: Clements, San Rafael and Glenarm Place.
Since its founding, Curtis Park has always been a mixed-income neighborhood. Interspersed among the neighborhood's turn of the century mansions are smaller houses built by waves of immigrants who came to Denver to join the workforce during the city's early years. Throughout the neighborhood's history, many of Curtis Park's residents have worked in Downtown Denver, which is only a 15-minute walk or a quick ride on RTD's light rail--or, in past decades, on streetcars--from Downtown's businesses and office buildings.
Curtis Park is also a remarkably diverse neighborhood. Approximately 30% of the residents are African-American, 30% are Latino, and 40% are white.
A current effort that is changing the landscape of Curtis Park is the rebuilding of the neighborhood's housing projects through a $26 million federal HOPE VI grant. Four blocks of two-story apartment buildings that were built for public housing in the 1950s were demolished in 2000. The area is being rebuilt to accommodate market-rate apartments and condominiums alongside affordable and low income units, creating a more economically diverse community. Construction of the new housing is underway, remarkably transforming the neighborhood.
Curtis Park's landmarks include the Denver Enterprise Center (3003 Arapahoe Street), an innovative small-business incubator that utilizes the labor force from the surrounding neighborhood; the Women's Bean Project (3201 Curtis Street), an entrepreneurial business and job skills program for low-income women that is housed in a renovated firehouse; and Sacred Heart (2760 Larimer Street), Denver's oldest Catholic parish whose church recently completed significant renovations. The neighborhood's namesake open space--Mestizo-Curtis Park--lies in the center of the neighborhood, and was created in 1868 as Denver's first public park.

Quoted from: www.downtowndenver.com/UrbanLiving