When the University of Denver's basketball teams outgrew the atmosphere of their 7,000-seat arena, they moved into the smaller gym next door - on purpose. Hamilton Gymnasium, inside the Ritchie Center for Sports and Wellness at 2240 East Buchtel Boulevard on the DU campus, is the roughly 2,000-seat home of Pioneers volleyball and both basketball programs, prized precisely for the noise a compact room generates. The gym is part of the Ritchie Center, the gold-spired athletics cathedral completed.....

Fifty free concerts a year is the rent: the city provided the park land, a national foundation seeded the build, and the deal is that most of the summer costs nothing. Levitt Pavilion Denver, at 1380 West Florida Avenue in Ruby Hill Park, opened in July 2017 as one of the Levitt Foundation's permanent outdoor venues - and now runs one of the biggest free concert series in the American West. The model is national but the execution is Denver's: the Mortimer and Mimi Levitt Foundation partners wit.....

The arena opened one month before the Pepsi Center - and its hockey program has out-championed every NHL team in the same city. Magness Arena, the centerpiece of the University of Denver's Ritchie Center at 2240 Buchtel Boulevard, opened on 15 September 1999 and is home ice for one of college hockey's dynasties. The building replaced a rink with history: the old University of Denver Arena - razed in 1997 - had carried the program's early national titles, and the 84-million-dollar, 440,000-squar.....

The air conditioning is buried underground and fed through hundreds of floor vents so slowly it makes no sound - acoustics obsessive enough that the Rocky Mountain News credited the hall with a quality virtually unknown in Denver: intimacy. The June Swaner Gates Concert Hall anchors the Robert and Judi Newman Center for the Performing Arts at 2344 East Iliff Avenue, on the University of Denver campus. The opening was an event: the 70-million-dollar Newman Center debuted on 18 April 2003 with a .....

When it opened it was the only stadium in America built solely for lacrosse. Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium, on the University of Denver campus beside the Ritchie Center, was formally dedicated on 30 April 2005 with an overtime win over Air Force - and the program it houses went on to win a national championship a decade later. The name honours a believer: Peter Barton, founding president of Liberty Media and an adjunct professor at DU's business school, coached his children in lacrosse and shar.....

The sanctuary of an old Denver church now holds the concert hall of the nation's second-largest acoustic music school. Daniels Hall at 71 East Yale Avenue is the flagship room of Swallow Hill Music, the nonprofit founded in 1979 out of Harry Tuft's Denver Folklore Center - the folk institution that moved into the converted church at Broadway and Yale in 1998 under executive director Chris Daniels. The hall seats 299 in the former sanctuary, named for the musical Daniels family, and its warm woo.....