At Denver’s old Gates Rubber Factory, a pedestrian bridge built to accommodate the promise of people at new developments yet to come stands in an empty area surrounded by a barricade of fences.
The bridge was built over light rail and train tracks, connecting two empty plots of land on Bannock and Acoma streets. Since then, it’s been called a “bridge to nowhere.”
The former Gates site near Broadway and Interstate 25 has long sat vacant as hopes to revive the area have fallen through time after time…