When I visited with my friends Wally and Linda a few weeks ago, Linda mentioned that she and some pals recently took a bike ride to the Stanley Marketplace, a trendy mall located in Denver's Stapleton neighborhood. The route she described sounded pretty nice, and so this past Wednesday I decided to take that bike ride myself. To get there, you go through Washington Park, Cheesman Park, City Park (one of the oldest if not the oldest in the city), and through some really beautiful neighborhoods. Stanley Marketplace was created from a former aircraft manufacturing plant located at what was once Stapleton Airport. Stapleton was Denver's airport for many years, but was not considered adequate for the future. It could have been expanded, but the neighborhoods near the airport were quite affluent (and therefore politically connected), and convinced the city to build a new airport located near the Kansas state line. And so instead of having an airport 15 minutes from downtown, it is now a 45 minute drive on a good day. On the bright side, Denver now has a new upscale neighborhood, as well as Stanley Marketplace (a fun and funky mall), on the site of the old airport. And if the conspiracy theories are true, Denver International Airport now also serves as a secret, out of the way landing spot for alien aircraft. Makes sense to me.
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