Old Stapleton Tower
The old Stapleton airport tower in Denver, decommissioned in 1995, is now surrounded by housing developments and shopping. Probably could be rehabbed into some sort of aviation-themed steak house with a bar at the top maybe if they expanded it a little on one side. I hope the elevator still works!
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Why did they never tear it down when they closed the airport?
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The tower is considered the historic piece of Stapleton if you will.
There are many ideas about what to do with it - notably a civic center type area which would include refurbishing the control tower into an observation deck and rehabbing the elevator. The last article I read on the tower, about six months, made no mention of tearing it down being a reality. They tore down the Stapleton parking garage a few years ago. Only other standing building of note on the Stapleton property is the United Flight Training Center. I was out there visiting a few weeks ago and took a drive through. Construction is now moving onto the very north of the old airport up against Smith Road, the site of that old Frontier hangar and headquarters complex. |
Looks surreal standing out there like that .
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The tower cab has windows on all sides, providing a 360° panoramic view. That's the whole purpose of a tower cab -- to provide a view of everything. What am I missing? . |
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The cab has a ladder and some other junk on the mountain side, but who knows, maybe the existing mountain panorama is resplendent.
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