Jake and I were talking about all of the recent activity along Olde Wadsworth recently, and I’ve been wondering what the Park 36 poo was about. This was the second time I have had to google for it, and I finally found a bit of information about it:
7/22/02 - The Park 36 project by Fiest Associates Inc. and Wiens Real Estate Ventures in Broomfield will have an estimated completed value of $480 million. The 138-acre site is located along U.S. 36 between Wadsworth Parkway and Olde Wadsworth Boulevard. When completed, it would have about 500 for-sale residential units and as many as 1,200 apartments. It also would have about 100,000 to 125,000 square feet of retail. The mixed-use Main Street area will have retail on the ground floor and housing on top. The final phase could include up to 1.5 million square feet of office and strip retail space along Wadsworth. Eventually, it is proposed to be a hub for a light-rail line that would serve the corridor between Denver and Boulder. The project is proposed to break ground in about a year.
For those who don’t live in the area, they are essentially turning a nice frontage road type area with nothing but grass and a few trees and turning it into another suburban dump with your typical crappy chain stores/restaurants and so forth. Not to mention it will create an even bigger traffic problem in the area.
*sigh* Damn suburban sprawl. This whole living and working in the ‘burbs thing really bothers me sometimes. Maybe someday I’ll have the opportunity to move within the Denver city limits.
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