Say goodbye to Civic Center Park as you know it.

Large parts of the central Denver park will be fenced off to the public as it gets an $18 million facelift.

Crews and officials put shovels into the ground Wednesday morning to commemorate the start of the Civic Center Next 100 project. The first phase of construction will see major changes to the park’s Greek Amphitheatre and Central Promenade.

“What you will see here is the investments that prepare us for the next hundred years,” Mayor Mike Johnston said at the groundbreaking. “We are both custodians of the history of this place. We are also caretakers of the future, which means we have to make sure we make the investments like this to prepare this public space for the next hundred years of events.”

The city says the project will make

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