Nine months after two local developers bought a host of retail buildings in the heart of Englewood, the city may begin giving them some of the land underneath them.

The Englewood City Council is slated to vote Monday on a series of agreements with Denver-based real estate firms DPC Cos. and Ogilvie Partners that would kickstart the redevelopment process for Englewood CityCenter.

CityCenter includes a string of big-box stores, retail strips and parking lots, plus the Englewood Civic Center building, which holds city offices and courtrooms.

The site along Hampden Avenue has had a tumultuous past. It was once home to Cinderella City Mall, for a time the largest mall west of the Mississippi River. But the mall’s performance sputtered, and it was demolished in 1998.

Englewood bought the lan

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