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March 14, 2019
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Developers share project details for vacant Kmart site BY ELLIS ARNOLD EARNOLD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
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mid some fears in the community that more multi-family housing could crop up at Englewood’s vacant Kmart site, developers showed residents a plan for the property that involves a gym, retailers and — ideally — local food or drink businesses. “What’s going to make a successful retail shopping center?” said Zeb Ripple, a partner at Capital Pacific, a company involved with the proposed project at the Kmart site. “Experience for the consumer: a sense of community, local tenants, something that’s going to create a buzz.” Experiential retail — business the internet can’t easily replicate — is what’s surviving in the brick-and-mortar world, Ripple told an audience of about a dozen residents at a public meeting to update the neighborhood on the project. “That’s the road map we’re trying to follow,” Ripple said. And apartments aren’t part of that plan: At the meeting at the nearby Colorado’s Finest High School of Choice on Feb. 28, an attendee asked if developers plan to build apartments in 10 or 15 years. SEE PROJECT, P7
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