This is the summer of thesummeriturnedpretty, a Prime series based on the bestselling book by jennyhan whose action has been moving even more slowly than Denver’s 16th Street renovation project. Proposed long before the pandemic, as the famous I.M. Pei tiles became infamous tripping hazards and other aspects of the infrastructure along the circa 1982 16th Street Mall began deteriorating, the $175 million project hosted an unveiling at the end of May — when a half-dozen blocks were still unfinished. Its real reveal is now set for October 4, more than forty years after the mall replaced a busy, mile-long stretch of road through downtown and three years after the renovation project’s construction began. Along the way, the project has been criticized for overruns in both schedule and budget — when downtown Denver desperately needed this longtime tourist attraction and entertainment district to come back — and mocked for a $100,000 rebranding campaign that resulted in dropping the word “m...