Gates Rubber Factory Denver Redevelopment
Over at denverurbanism ian harwick has.
Gates rubber factory denver redevelopment. The gates rubber plant for better or worse shaped south denver for the majority of the last century. Phased redevelopment of a portion of the former gates rubber factory into a high density mixed use transit oriented development adjacent to the broadway light rail station. Central denver will also be booming in the coming years with the redevelopment of the old gates rubber factory site at rtd s broadway station. A look at new broadway station.
Jared jacang maher wrote an excellent story about polzin and the gates site for westword later that year. The cherokee redevelopment of the former gates rubber factory cherokee redevelopment is located on an approximately 72 acre in fill site the site containing property owned by cherokee denver llc cherokee the regional transportation district rtd and the city and county of denver city. If the cdp botndary in of the and pan has ant pated for the entfe gates the cherokee and gates east at broadway by wag storm open space and tho been the in with b. Special factors an.
A notable innovator and manufacturer of rubber belts gates was one of the city s largest companies after the company set up shop at 999 s. The site is gener. Developer city have big plans for former gates rubber factory on south broadway in denver denver7 colorado news station denver7 features some of the changes that the denver community can expect with the highly anticipated transformation of a mixed use development in this article. Purchased the colorado tire and leather company for 3 500.
The history of where the former gates rubber plant. Developer city have big plans for former gates rubber factory on south broadway in denver. To a create a t mu 30 hotel uses on as to a s shared and thb 2. A texas developer teamed up with a denver company to buy the site near south broadway.
A section of that development called santa fe yards. If you ve driven by i 25 and broadway lately you might have noticed that the old gates rubber factory is finally coming down. This demolition has been over a decade in the making and sadly does not give us any reassurance that the site will be redeveloped anytime soon. The north side of the old rubber factory owed its survival to 2013 in large part to the recession which quashed the 50 acre 1 billion redevelopment the largest in denver since stapleton about five years ago.
Now that it s gone it s still shaping it although the current shape could be described as amorphous at best.