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Originally Posted by The Dirt
Stapleton development moves so slowly. Years ago, when I used to live in Shittleton, the 36th & Wabash development was a sure thing that was to happen any day. So was the southeast corner of MLK and Central. So was the empty field next to the control tower. So was all of that open land directly north of I-70. MLK getting punched through to Peoria got delayed year after year. The western side of the Central Park Ave. bridge of the tracks was delayed year after year.
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I am split on agreeing with this. Since Stapleton is 8 square miles and has over 27,000 people in it with a lot of commercial/retail, I can't say that it was slow to develop in its 16-17 years of existence. However, the very specific parcels that are waiting for specifically zoned development (low-income, office, TOD, etc) has had times of "it's coming soon" -- and then -- "wait...not just yet...not ready yet". Again, it takes time to develop all this land and use it for its intended purposes. I promise that it would all be gobbled up by now if we just let SF home developers take it all. We have needed to wait for the market to handle more density, multi-family housing, and more office components. There
HAS been new multi-family housing complexes, low-income housing, and office buildings built in the last year or so...so it's not dead.
The MLK extension is happening now and will be opening soon in early 2020. Obviously the CPB bridge has been done now for over a year, and the open land development north of I-70 and south of Northfield (that isn't the actual Northfield Power Center) now has a couple multi-story hotels, a 3-story office building, a senior apartment complex, townhome for-sale buildings, and many units of apartments...and now only a few parcels are left to take. The Sprouts grocery/commercial area is being built now and is part of the CPB TOD, and should push more of the planned TOD office/residential buildings to groundbreak. Another shopping/restaurant/office center (separate from Northfield center) is scheduled to be developed very soon at the NW corner of I-70 and CPB.