[CPEO-MEF] Developing on the Rocky Mountain Arsenal site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Commerce City pins hopes on developing land arsenals

By John Ingold
Denver Post
September 21, 2004

It is Commerce City's big leap.

This city of nearly 30,000, stereotyped as the industrial black hole of 
metro Denver, is about to embark on its biggest development project 
ever. The plan is to take about 1,000 acres of former Rocky Mountain 
Arsenal land and create a municipal treasure chest called Prairie Gateway.

It will have a new 20,000-seat soccer stadium for the Colorado Rapids. 
It will have a new city hall, youth ball fields and acres of park space. 
It will have attractive shops, restaurants and hotels.

And if all goes to plan, city officials say, Prairie Gateway will bring 
reinvestment and a different attitude. A redeveloped piece of former 
Superfund land will transform the city long known for its oil refineries 
and gritty image.

"For Commerce City I think it's the one thing that will make us able to 
compete with the rest of the major metropolitan cities in the Denver 
area," Mayor Sean Ford said.

But right now, the project is in many ways a leap of faith with enough 
questions to make some hesitant to jump.

Is the land, known as the "western tier" of the once-polluted Rocky 
Mountain Arsenal, actually safe?

…

for the entire article, see
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2415601,00.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org

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