"And now you show little knowledge of lower downtown in the 70s and 80s."--Please.  You're making your claim with 100% percent hindsight.  The revitalization you claim was "inevitable" went into the toilet when the oil bust took place.   That's not conjecture, it's an economic fact.  There's a reason property owners in LoDo fought like hell to keep their properties from being included in the district boundaries; they weren't able to predict what LoDo would be like today, but that reason is not because they considered the district's revitalization to be "inevitable."