The welcome sign at Denver International Airport was billed as a technologically groundbreaking LED display with almost 1,000 brightly colored rods — a piece of art befitting one of the busiest airports in the world.
Instead, a decade after it was first proposed, the sign has been nothing but problems for the airport, with malfunctioning lights, cheap-looking screens, and disappointing ad sales.
“That sign hasn’t worked a day in its life. I mean in the entirety of its existence. I don’t think there’s a single day where every piece of that sign has functioned the way it was designed,” said Nathan Gulash, an architect who regularly drives his husband to the airport for work travel…