Denver is about to spend big on flood-control projects — but will they leave Globeville dry?

Nine years ago, several elected leaders gathered on the banks of the South Platte River in north Denver to celebrate: After more than a decade of digging in the riverbed and construction of projects that included levees, a 320-acre swath of land — principally in working-class Globeville — finally would be removed from the flood plain.
Then-Mayor John Hickenlooper called the $25 million in work “a water engineering marvel.”
But for Globeville, which hugs the