Closed US Bank at Iliff and Parker

This is a former US Bank at Iliff and Parker.  There is a new replacement US Bank branch just a couple of blocks away at 2361 S Parker Rd.

This whole area seems kind of depressed and I have no idea why because it has very heavy traffic.

Eyesore on Iliff

This building at 10575 E Iliff Avenue, appears to have been troubled for a long time.  Google has a series of images of it dating back to 2007.  In 2011-2014, it housed a Safelite AutoGlass, but before and after that it was empty.  Now there is plywood covering the windows, which is a sure sign that the owner has given up on renting it.

This is the 3rd empty or blighted building I have featured in the immediate area, the others being the old Barn Store, and the empty Village on the Park. There is also a vacant 4 acre plot of land on the NW corner of Jewel & Havana, about 4 blocks away from this.

The old Barn Store

On the northwest corner of Parker Rd & Iliff, in unincorporated Arapahoe County, sits an abandoned Barn Store, which used to also have a small 4-pump gas station.  It closed sometime in 2013 or 2014, and I think it could be called blighted.  It seems like a prime location, tens of thousands of cars rushing by every day.  Yet it sits empty, unloved, forlorn, lonely, waiting for someone to put it out of its misery.

The empty Village on the Park

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.