Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Neighbors act to preserve urban blight


Since the University of Colorado moved its hospital, and everything else even vaguely medical, to just south of Chez Curmudgeon in lovely Aurora, Colorado (there's a Family Dollar right across the street for your shopping convenience!), its former campus at 9th Street and Colorado Boulevard in Denver has stood vacant, providing a perfect breeding ground for vermin and spirits with unfinished business from their terminal hospital stays. Plans centered on a new Wal-Mart had been in work to redevelop the site, but thanks in part to the vociferous opposition of its prospective neighbors, those have been kiboshed.

Which is a great relief, as Denver has diminishingly few scary places in which Stephen King could plausibly set a novel.

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