Tom Downey, chair of the Westerly Creek Metro District (WCMD), came to last Thursday’s meeting of the Park Creek Metro District (PCMD) expecting PCMD approval of a joint resolution that would enable WCMD to pay an attorney it has engaged since January.
A complicated, five-party agreement has been reached that will allow full development of Stapleton’s last large parcel to proceed.
Construction has started on Eastbridge North, a nearly one-acre lot on the north side of Martin Luther King Blvd. at Geneva Court (across the street from the new Eastbridge Town Center).
As reported last month, two stray, domestic dogs caused the deaths of a dozen animals at The Urban Farm Stapleton (TUF) in January 2017.
Despite the “skeletal” look of the old airport control tower, construction is now proceeding apace, according to Robert Thompson, founder and CEO of Punch Bowl Social.
Construction is expected to begin late summer on this 265-unit market-rate apartment project.
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) have concluded that noise walls on the south side of MLK from Ironton St. to Moline St. are a “reasonable and feasible” means for mitigating noise impacts on adjacent residences in that three-block stretch.
This is an update to the January Front Porch article “Special District Dispute Nearly Derails Stapleton Bond Issue” (posted at FrontPorchStapleton.com).
The two service districts charged with financing and constructing Stapleton’s infrastructure clashed at a special meeting on Dec. 19.
Twenty-three years after its creation, the Stapleton Citizens Advisory Board (CAB) is questioning its own future.
Landri Taylor, Stapleton Foundation executive director, announced at the November CAB meeting a study into how the foundation could assist buyers in making down payments on affordable homes.
The city of Denver will not enforce the Green Book vision for rental housing at Stapleton. “While the Stapleton Development Plan (Green Book) is mentioned in the Development Agreement as ‘principles’ to be adhered to, the Development Agreement does not adopt those principles as enforceable terms,” says Denver’s housing director Rick Padilla.
