A Community Emerges Around Denver's New Airport

The area around Denver International Airport is rapidly expanding into a fully developed city, with two dozen or more projects in development.

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November 19, 2005, 11:00 AM PST

By Brenda Meyer

"City leaders say a significant chunk of Denver's employment and population growth will occur around the airport, one of the few remaining large undeveloped tracts in the metro area. Excluding airport land and the massive Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge, the DIA Partnership-defined area includes about 200 square miles of space -- bigger than downtown Denver and Lakewood combined.

But it will take careful planning to ensure the region grows as envisioned, and water and noise issues could present formidable challenges."

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