DENVER – With more than 200 in attendance, Mayor Mike Johnston honored the best in architecture and design during the 2025 Mayor’s Design Awards ceremony tonight at the Studio Loft of the Denver Performing Arts Complex. The mayor presented awards to 12 winners in nine categories and recognized 11 honorable mentions, selected from 27 official nominees for 2025.

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9+CO (9th and Colorado) has been recognized with a 2025 Mayor’s Design Award, honoring the project’s contribution to open space, active streetscapes, and thoughtful placemaking.

The 9+CO development reimagines the former medical campus into a walkable, mixed-use destination—where vibrant streetscapes, active green spaces, and human-scale design shape an inclusive urban experience. This award recognizes the power of public space to strengthen community, connect neighborhoods, and bring people together.

We’re proud to have collaborated on this vision with Continuum Partners, LLC and CIM Group, and alongside design and building partners at SAR+ Architects, Gensler, Dig Studio, Saunders Construction, Kiewit, and Catamount Constructors.

Thank you to Mayor Johnston and the City and County of Denver for celebrating projects that elevate the public realm and inspire future placemaking efforts.

Since 2005, the Mayor’s Design Awards have honored projects throughout the city for excellence in architecture, urban design and placemaking. The awards are presented to Denver homeowners, business owners, nonprofits, artists, and others for their creative contributions to the public realm. Winners can range from community placemaking projects to adaptive reuse of historic structures to single-family residences to major mixed-use downtown buildings. Each brings something special to Denver’s unique visual fabric and speaks to our collective commitment to building healthy, sustainable communities.