When Denver voters approved a major bond package on the 2017 ballot, the list of promised projects included a plan for pedestrian upgrades along East Colfax Avenue.

The Colfax Corridor Improvements project — originally allocated $20 million — was meant to add lighting, trees and better crosswalks in four major business districts across Colfax. But two years after voters approved the bond package, part of that project was under threat.

A significant portion of the Colfax Mayfair Business District, which had been included in the Elevate bond plan when it went before voters, suddenly wasn’t set to benefit from the bond. The city wanted to pool the dollars intended for the improvements with the much costlier plan to bring a bus rapid transit system to East Colfax, said Hilarie Portell, the

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