A residential project that will span a full city block at the southeast corner of Sloan’s Lake Park is finally underway after a developer navigated what he calls “a truly complicated choreography of financing.”

Denver-based Zocalo Development, led by CEO David Zucker, has broken ground on a parking garage next to Sloan’s Lake Medical Center

Its completion, forecast for late April, will allow Zucker to start work on the meat of the project — 461 residential units, nearly all rentals and more than a third of them income-restricted, that will go up on a surface parking block currently utilized by the medical center.

Zucker said the groundbreaking follows 10 years of work. He first discussed the project publicly in 2018 and received the necessary rezoning the following year . But the site h

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