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Constellation Ice Cream has been under construction in the Eastbridge Town Center for quite some time. Engineers have struggled to finalize the project, and residents have been kept in the dark as to why the project hasn\u2019t been completed. \u201cWhat\u2019s taking so long?\u201d questioned Eastbridge resident Shane McCoy. \u201cI\u2019m not a business analyst, but getting this thing done in time for Christmas just doesn\u2019t make sense.\u201d North Central Park resident Nicci Doyle agrees. \u201cWe have ridden our bikes down there tens of times through the spring and summer to eat and have drinks, and it would have been nice to have some ice cream,\u201d said Doyle. \u201cBut, the progress seems to always be very slow, and oddly methodical for an ice cream shop. Don\u2019t you just need a roof, some eggs, milk, and sugar?\u201d The Stapletonion has been attempting to reach project managers of the Constellation for months, and recently were able to speak to the lead engineer of the project, Chris Evers. Turns out, the initial scope of the project wasn\u2019t very simple. \u201cWe really wanted to create something special, not just an ordinary ice cream shop,\u201d said Evers. \u201cThe creative design of the airplane wasn\u2019t the end of it for us, it was the beginning. From the start, we intended that the shop, the airplane design, would actually be able to fly.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Ever\u2019s engineering team spent months working out design issues and trying to figure out the best way to make their idea take flight. Ultimately, the project crashed, and Evers had to make some tough decisions. \u201cWe confronted the fact that ultimately, people just want to get their ice cream. They don\u2019t need to be airborne to enjoy it,\u201d said Evers. Finances also played a part in the decision. \u201cWe had sunk hundreds of thousands of dollars in to figuring out a way to not only have the plane be able to take off and land, but to have it be financially feasible. I mean, we couldn\u2019t charge $75 for a cup of ice cream.\u201d After hearing the news, Stapleton residents were understandably disappointed. \u201cYeah, would have really been nice to enjoy the ice cream while flying over Stapleton,\u201d said South End resident Dave Anderson. \u201cBut, I suppose I can just eat my ice cream on the ground, like people from other Denver neighborhoods.\u201d Amy Beatty agrees that flight would have been nice, but having a fourth functional ice cream shop in Stapleton is more important. \u201cStapleton is used to having everything a little better, but as long as they have good ice cream, I will be happy, I guess,\u201d said Beatty. Evers says that removing the \u201cflying portion\u201d of the shop will speed things up quite a bit, and patrons can expect to start getting their much awaited ice cream in the Eastbridge Town Center in early 2018<\/a>. Who knows, maybe ice cream can just be enjoyed at 5,280 feet?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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