Englewood has signed off on a major redevelopment of its urban core.

Monday night, the Denver suburb’s City Council voted 5-2 to terminate a series of ground leases and exchange properties and kickstart construction planning on properties within the 55-acre Englewood CityCenter area along Hampden Avenue.

“This is the area we need to revitalize,” Englewood City Council Member Tena Prange said at the meeting.

Once home to the largest mall west of the Mississippi, the land is now a string of big-box stores, retail strips and parking lots, plus the Englewood Civic Center campus, which holds city offices, courtrooms and parking. The city owns the land but granted a 75-year ground lease in 2000 to Weingarten Realty, which developed the current setup after the mall was demolished in the late 1

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