There is a triangle formed where Iliff, Havana, and Parker Road meet. On the southeast part, south of the Ross Dress for Less building, is a large rectangular building (across from the Stampede), and in front of it is a small building that looks like a house, which used to house a Le Peep. The two buildings are owned by Kimco Realty from New Hyde Park, NY, which owns more than 700 commercial properties nationwide. An Aurora Sentinel article called it "Village on the Park", but I haven't seen that name anywhere else.
The Le Peep restaurant has been empty since 2012, and the rectangular building has been nearly empty for a long time, with its last tenant, Space Age Federal Credit Union, moving out in 2015. There was some talk of it being set to be demolished last year, but still the two buildings sit empty, year after year.
They aren't blighted - no broken windows, plywood or graffiti, and they seem to be in good shape, just functionally obsolete. And yet they sit empty, waiting to be demolished.
Will anything happen this year? It seems doubtful. Meanwhile, over 100,000 cars per day, zoom by.
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