{"id":6424,"date":"2016-06-22T21:00:56","date_gmt":"2016-06-23T04:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=6424"},"modified":"2016-06-22T21:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T04:00:56","slug":"forest-city-announces-aggressive-growth-plan-for-stapleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/?p=6424","title":{"rendered":"Forest City Announces Aggressive Growth Plan for Stapleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[<a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/stapleton-growth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6425\" src=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/stapleton-growth-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"stapleton-growth\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a>Several months ago, Forest City announced the development of <a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/compare-forest-city-neighborhood-visions-versus-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">more neighborhoods<\/a> north of 56th Street into the Rocky Mountain Arsenal area. More recently, the massive development company announced further expansion south and west. In fact, the new plans show Stapleton moving in and taking over neighborhoods including but not limited to Park Hill, Congress Park, Baker, and all the way Southwest to Mar Lee. \u201cWe\u2019re aware it\u2019s a pretty aggressive plan,\u201d said Forest City President Phil Dargossi. \u201cWe\u2019re always looking into growth. And the best opportunity for growth right now is moving west. Sure, we could move towards Green Valley Ranch, but there is a lot more work to do if we move that direction. We can gobble up these older, quaint neighborhoods, rebrand them a little, and suddenly they&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/downtown-to-be-renamed-stapleton-west\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stapleton boroughs<\/a>.\u201d\n<!--more-->\nMost Stapleton residents don\u2019t feel the aggressive plan has any legs. \u201cIt really doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense,\u201d said resident Kevin Sifers. \u201cDo they plan to kick out existing residents and <a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/first-scrapes-begin-in-classic-stapleton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scrape the homes<\/a> or do they simply just think they have the power to rename neighborhoods?\u201d Paula Stagemeyer also thinks the plan is pretty arrogant. \u201cSure, things have gone well with this development and this neighborhood,\u201d said Stagemeyer. \u201cBut, each Denver neighborhood has it\u2019s unique set of people and characteristics. This really doesn\u2019t make any sense at all.\u201d\nForest City has not set a <a href=\"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/posts\/forest-city-all-future-communications-to-be-done-via-snapchat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">timeframe<\/a> for the endeavor, but says they will use \u201call means necessary,\u201d to make sure the plan comes to fruition. \u201cLook, we are really good at creating neighborhoods,\u201d said Dargossi. \u201cSo there\u2019s really no evidence to say we won\u2019t be good at taking over neighborhoods. It\u2019s just our next step as a company, and something our stockholders are already looking forward to. Who won\u2019t want to say they own a piece of Cherry Creek?\u201d]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<![CDATA[]]>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-issue-130","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stapletonion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}