Colorado Blvd and I-70

Crossroad of Industry

A land of industry and trucks always on the move

Technology and society are on the move too; advancing with outposts

For a few years, people have started to claim a place in this once Industry focused land

They come by car and by rail; with people rails now more numerous than the rails of freighty past

Some intentional areas are clean, bright and white. But they like the industrial relics are human scale only to the titans that built the industry here

Still, early movers are from our margins and where they go is not always welcoming

A person can be gobbled up and lost in a journey out here

This sandaled photographer dare not peel back the curtain and stayed on the traveled side of the fence

From this caged vantage, we can see clear the engines of the past - even if only their tail ends. Gargantuan granaries and trailers all patient at a massive warehouse complex.

It is inspiring, the scale and a reminder of the monotony of these endeavors. Yet heralding change we still see the modern tying in, people-centered self storage in front and the financial, service oriented City looming large behind. Click here to appreciate the architectural thought which went into these seemingly light and airy but now weather trodden warehouses.

We see the industrial decay setting in however from the rust and grit on the granary...

To the once grandly elevated facilities on the second floor now loosing their roofing...

Its scale growing as we see the patient trailers are at a boring, utilitarian, flat-topped addition next to the far more numerous decaying and disused dock doors - also topped by wind ravaged architecturally interesting roofs. Their allusion to the mountains behind complete with erosion and reclamation akin to our weathering Rockies.

All Copy Products - in Colorado since 1975 - here advertising their 40th (in 2015). They moved in 2019; their sign as derelict as the building. Sadly the building sports cool architecture I'm remiss to have not captured. Still we can see vehicles have not missed their chance to capture traffic advantage, through the grounds, to escape fellow vehicles - unmoving.

Yet business continues; downed signs, no signs we see trucks aready and liquor aplenty, here in a past gas station waiting for those early movers to walk on in.

The City, it comes and modernizes, peoplifies; we see its influence pulling Industry even. The new clustering toward the people-rails, toward the looming City despite past plans, grandeur and even past, people focused industry.

Alas on the drive home - to the City - we see even it must move forward to stay ahead of abandonment.

R.I.P. terribly ugly bus station. May the Ritz Carlton get a neighbor befitting its regency, 38 years after completion.