Westminster Mall Fiasco

Another out-of-area post.  Westminster Mall used to reign supreme among shoppers in the northwest part of the Denver metro area.  The Flatirons Crossing mall, which opened in 2000, killed it, but it was a slow death.   It was finally demolished in 2012.

Since then, the 105 acre site has sat vacant, with grandiose plans to replace it.  Other malls have had successful transitions to lifestyle centers, such as Villa Italia becoming the booming Belmar Center, and Southglenn Mall becoming the Streets at SouthGlenn, but this project has lost all momentum.

The "Downtown Westminster" website says that construction was supposed to begin in 2015, but now the construction start date has been pushed back to 2017.  Meanwhile, the huge site just sits there, wasting away, with a couple of earth-digging machines sitting there next to piles of dirt.

Empty former Westminster Mall site, looking south