At least two members of the Denver City Council don’t support a $50 million plan to make changes to Civic Center Park.

“I think it turns that beautiful space into an amusement park and it makes it, in my view, kind of useless for the big celebrations we’ve had there,” Councilman Kevin Flynn said at a meeting last week.

The 33-acre Civic Center Park lies between Denver City Hall and Broadway, and between 14th and Colfax avenues. It was developed in the early 1900s amid the City Beautiful movement, which sought to create grand spaces in America’s cities.

In recent years, the park has also served as something of a front door to the city’s challenges. It was closed for six months in 2021 and 2022 after conditions deteriorated amid widespread homeless encampments.

A major focus of the city’

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