A single landowner stands in the way of the Jefferson Parkway’s construction
“As the Jefferson Parkway Public Highway Authority narrows down contractors and gets ready to break ground on Colorado’s newest toll road, a single piece of land stands in the way of progress.
The toll road is a 10-mile stretch of land that would connect Highway 93 to Highway 128 from Golden to Broomfield, continuing the loop around the Denver Metro Area.
“We have virtually all the land. There is a small about half-acre parcel we have to acquire but, for our purposes, we are ready to go,” the Executive Director of the project Bill Ray told Denver7 back in December . “All of that land is either held by one of the member jurisdictions and those jurisdictions are either the city of Arvada, the city and county of Broomfield, or Jefferson County. The private pieces that we’ve had to acquire we have already acquired.”
However, a local landowner says that’s not true. Mark Hotchkiss is a trustee The Kenneth W. and Joy R. Hotchkiss Family Trust and the son of the property’s original owners.
“My father bought this land in the late 70s, early 80s as an investment mostly,” Hotchkiss said.
In 1988, Kenneth Hotchkiss constructed a building on the property and moved a plastic injection molding business onto the land.”
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Lopez, Meghan. Channel 7 News 21 January 2019.