Commerce City, Colorado

10 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 3, ISSUE 3 COMMERCE C I TY , COLORADO team, plays its home games. Also located on the former Rocky Mountain Arsenal lands is the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. The United States Congress designated the 15,988-acre sanctuary, a national wildlife refuge in 1992 and it is now the largest urban refuge of its kind in the country with more than 300 species of wildlife. Managed by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, the site is in the middle of the community. “It’s a major amenity with lots of visitors. It’s the only place where you can drive in the metropolitan Denver area and find bison, bald eagles, and red-tailed hawks; the same variety of wildlife out on the prairie,” explains Tinklenberg. He hopes that in three to five years, some of the 300-acres surrounding the DSG Park is “kick started into development” with the help of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment. He admits