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Englewood 7.12.13
Englewood
July 12, 2013
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Arapahoe County, Colorado • Volume 93, Issue 21
Incentives OK’d for Sprouts location Big changes loom at former site of Larry Miller Nissan By Tom Munds
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the event, including representatives from the Arapahoe Rescue Patrol and Englewood Neighborhood Watch as well as graduates of the Englewood Citizens Academy. Also, Englewood Country Buffet annually donates the food to feed police officers, firefighters and volunteers. Englewood police and paramedics on bicycles moved through the parks throughout the day to provide help where it was needed. Belleview, Cornerstone and Progress, the three parks clustered near the intersection of West Belleview Avenue and South Windermere Street, were again the location for the July 4 celebration. The parks are open all day and people generally begin arriving early to pick a good spot to set up to picnic, play games and to watch the fireworks, even though the vast majority of July 4 activities
Englewood City Council gave unanimous approval July 1 to a package of reimbursement incentives for the development planned at 5001 S. Broadway, the site of the former Larry Miller Nissan dealership. The incentive, in the form of a total of $250,000 in tax rebates, will reimburse the developer for making public improvements on Broadway to include installation of a traffic signal and realignment of road lanes. “I think this a a good negotiated use of the city’s incentive program to help foster development,” Council Member Joe Jefferson said before the approval vote. Mayor Pro Tem Jim Woodward voted for the incentives and said the planned development will be a major business addition to the south end of Broadway. “Providing incentives for this project will bring dividends for Englewood,” he said. “This will be a long-term plus for our community.” Cadence Capital Investments plans to demolish the former Larry Miller building and, on the 3.7-acre site, will construct a project that will include a 27,000-squarefoot building for Sprouts Farmers Market, an 8,075-square-foot site for Advance Auto Parks and about 8,000 square feet that will be leased to a retail business or a restaurant. Alan White, community development director, noted the incentives will be provided by rebating taxes that would have been paid to the city. The agreement calls for the company to receive a rebate of 50 percent of the build-
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Adrianna Wright, 7, looks out the opening before she begins her turn in a plastic bubble as families gather at Belleview and Cornerstone parks for the Fourth of July festivities. The person in the bubble uses his or her weight or momentum to move the bubble to the end of a short course and back. Photo by Tom Munds
Fourth is busy day at parks complex Holiday is crowd-pleaser in Englewood, Littleton By Tom Munds
tmunds@ourcoloradonews.com A crowd estimated in the thousands gathered on July 4 in Belleview Park, Cornerstone Park and a wide area in Englewood and Littleton surrounding the parks to watch the fireworks. The display was part of the annual July 4 fireworks and festival event that included food vendors, games and a variety of activities. It was sunny and hot early, and Belleview Park filled up first because of the abundance of tall trees providing shade. Shelia Traylor and her husband were setting up their tent in Cornerstone Park about 3 p.m. because Belleview Park was full.
“We were surprised when we came to Cornerstone, found a place to park and a nice place to set up the tent where we will have a good view of the fireworks,” the Centennial resident said. Traylor said she grew up in Englewood and remembers her parents taking her to see the fireworks over the Centennial Park Lake in the 1960s. “We like fireworks. So do our kids and their kids. This year, our son and three of our grandchildren will be joining us shortly so we can watch the fireworks show together,” she said. This was the 18th year several local agencies and communities have joined together to put on a July 4 celebration in the adjacent parks. For 2013, contributors and sponsors included Englewood, Littleton, South Suburban Parks and Recreation, Sheridan, Centennial and Arapahoe County. A small army of volunteers was on hand to help put on
Renovation at high school site steaming ahead First phase of campus to be done by year’s end By Tom Munds
tmunds@ourcoloradonews.com The Englewood High School site undergoes changes almost daily as crews continue the project to create a seventh- through 12th-grade campus. “The construction focus right now is the completion of phase 1, which is what will eventually become the middle school wing,” said Brian Ewert, school superintendent. “That is to be completed by the time students leave for the winter break in De-
cember because, during the break, the Englewood Leadership Academy and the high school will move to the middle school wing so the high school buildings can be demolished.” A good imagination was needed during a recent tour of the construction site at 3800 S. Logan St. to picture what most areas will become. It was easy to see what the middle school gymnasium would be because it is basically completed. However, descriptions of the new science classrooms, leadership academy area and other classrooms and facilities in what will be the middle school wing required imagination because, during the tour, the areas were either empty spaces or were marked off by lines of aluminum
studs that will eventually support walls. But the tour provided a feel for the layout of the new wing that will be a two-story structure running parallel to Logan Street. “Phase one will eventually be the location for the middle school. But when it is completed later this year, it will be the temporary home of the high school class-
es,” Ewert said. “The temporary move will require a lot of cooperation from teachers and students as they have to pick up and move classrooms so the high school demolition can begin.” School continues on Page 14
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This space under construction will be the Englewood Leadership Academy classrooms. The work to create the new seventh- through 12th-grade campus is on schedule to be completed by the end of 2014. Photo by Tom Munds