Denver Technological Center
Colorado
This office park started on forty acres, split between two developers who each took one side of the interstate.
Two men built this place, and the highway decided who got what. George Wallace had been quietly picking out parcels of land in Arapahoe County, including property owned by the Bansbach family. John Madden Junior came in as a developer. The arrangement was simple. Wallace worked the east side of Interstate twenty-five. Madden worked the west side. It began in nineteen sixty-two on forty acres, and it was one of the first suburban office parks anywhere in the United States. The architect and planner Carl Worthington was later asked to draw up a master plan along a new fiber optic line running south of downtown Denver. He started with those forty acres and room for eight hundred more. Today the owner says the park covers nine hundred and eight acres, with more than a thousand companies and a workforce above thirty-five thousand. The whole thing is marked by a monument between the interstate and DTC Parkway, built to look like the bare framework of a skyscraper.
This is the first of 2 parts. The rest runs about 2 minutes and is read to you as you drive past. Hear the whole piece.
George Wallace was on the east side of I-25 and John Madden was on the west side of I-25.
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