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Englewood council OKs proposal for old Kmart The Hive on Broadway hopes to draw retail, dining tenants BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Teachers, faculty, students and others from Colorado Connections Academy dance for a music video at Belleview Park on Sept. 17. The school gathered for a back-to-school picnic. PHOTOS BY JOSEPH RIOS
Making a connection Ianto Donagher-Zett, a kindergartner at Colorado Connections Academy, plays on the playground at Belleview Park. Over 2,600 students receive education from Colorado Connections Academy.
BY JOSEPH RIOS JRIOS@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
On a hot day at Belleview Park in Englewood, students, families and faculty of Colorado Connections Academy, an online K-12 school, gathered for a back-to-school picnic on Sept. 17. The picnic had food, games and an opportunity for online students to socialize with each other. Colorado Connections Academy serves more than 2,600 students from around the state. Many of those students use the school for their education because of the flexible online learning option.
It’s been nearly two years since the Kmart at 200 W. Belleview Ave. shut down as part of a round of 28 closures nationwide. The property has sat vacant as it fell victim to the “retail apocalypse,” or the closing of a large number of brick-and-mortar retail stores in the country. But the vacant Kmart site will soon transform to The Hive on Broadway — a place that will aim to offer dining and retail options along with self-storage. At a Sept. 16 Englewood City Council meeting, council approved a zoning change on second reading that will clear the way for the project to be developed. The applicant, the William Warren Group, sought the zoning change that would allow for self-storage in part of the building to provide financial stability to market the rest of the redevelopment. The William Warren Group, a real estate company, owns the self-storage brand StorQuest. “We’re excited to be part of the Englewood community. I think we can say it’s been a well-thought-out process to get to the point where we are SEE KMART, P6
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The Denver metro area had an unemployment rate of 2.6% in August, an improvement from 3.3% a year earlier.
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