Video/photos: CSU Day at the Stock Show and CSU Spur
About 2,000 visitors explored the CSU Spur campus during CSU Day at the National Western Stock Show on Jan. 14.
About 2,000 visitors explored the CSU Spur campus during CSU Day at the National Western Stock Show on Jan. 14.
Cowbells and the escalating rumble of stock show activity punctuated a Friday afternoon celebration marking completion of the CSU Spur campus and the opening of Hydro, a building focused on water research, innovation, and engagement.
Scenes from the Jan. 6 grand opening for Hydro, the third and final building at CSU Spur.
In one day short of a year, the CSU Spur campus in Denver will open all three of its buildings in a first-of-its-kind campus made for the public and offered by a higher education institution.
Back in 2017, at the Biennial of the Americas, Colorado State University and Denver Water announced plans to work together to support a new future for water research, policy, education and innovation.
The opening of Hydro, the largest of CSU Spur’s three buildings, rounds out an urban campus that was created as a sort of laboratory aimed at finding new ways to engage, inform, and inspire the broader community.
The CSU Spur campus will soon be complete with the opening of the third and final building at CSU Spur, the Hydro building. A public ribbon-cutting and grand opening event will be held at 1:15 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, at CSU Spur, 4817 National Western Dr., Denver, 80216.
Western Daughters Butcher Shop will maintain its shop in LoHi and launch a second location in North Denver – Western Daughters Kitchen, within CSU Spur’s new Hydro building when it opens on Jan. 6.
The opening of CSU Spur’s Hydro building on Jan. 6 represents the launch of a new engine of invention and innovation relating specifically to water and marks the culmination of a decade-long process to imagine and create the CSU Spur campus in Denver.
CSU volunteers are needed for the annual National Western Stock Show, which draws about 700,000 – more people than the Olympics.