This is a book about a specific locality (the neighborhood of Highland), a place (the Northside), and various regimes of property in North Denver. I am a born and bred Coloradan with many years of residency in North Denver; consequently, the pages that follow grew out of many decades of first-hand observation of changes to Denver’s built and social environments, followed by two years of concerted ethnographic fieldwork in North Denver. When I began, the key question driving my research was this: As gentrification processes accelerate, how do newcomers become solidly in-place while longtime residents often become hopelessly out-of-place in public spaces (cf. Cresswell, 1996)? As my research progressed, it became clear that I needed to change the directionality of this question. Instead of asking how public spaces change as Highland gentrified, I began to understand the agency of Highland’s public space. Put another way, I began to ask if changes made to specific public spaces worked to advance gentrification. To communicate his perspectives of some of these public spaces, real estate developer Paul Tamburello suggested I interview him while he drove me around Highland. During our drive, he pointed out former crack-houses that had been remodeled by urban pioneers, a service station that had now been repurposed as an eatery, and even age-old bullet holes in apartment buildings—physical manifestations of Highland’s turbulent past.