Sears won’t give up its dead Kmart, so a Denver leader may play hardball
“The former home of a Kmart store in southeastern Denver has been largely vacant for nearly five years, and Councilwoman Kendra Black is getting pretty sick of it.
The site at South Monaco Parkway and East Evans Avenue represents 12 acres of largely unused space along a busy commercial stretch. The 50-year-old building itself is more than 100,000 square feet.
“It’s a crumbling, deteriorated parking lot. People dump trash and old mattresses there. It’s a regular target for graffiti. There’s people camping around the property. The windows have been broken into,” Black said. “It’s a total wreck.””
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Kenney, Andrew. Denverite 14 December 2018.