Denver is getting a new contemporary art center. “The 15,000-square-foot art center is expected to open in late 2005 or early 2006 as part of Belmar, a $750 million retail, office and residential development. This facility, modeled after leading contemporary spaces such as P.S. 1 in New York City, will serve as a kind of artistic research center with world-class exhibitions, scholarly publications and regular symposiums. The Lab finally gives the Denver art scene what it has desperately needed – a flexible, high-level alternative art space to complement the Denver Art Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver.”