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Article: Cherokee and Lionstone.(Company overview)
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- Rocky Mountain Construction
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- July 28, 2008
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By Carol Carder
Redeveloping 80 Former Industrial Acres in the Heart of Denver
It's been a long time coming, but developers now are converting the former Gates Rubber Factory site in Denver from an eyesore to eye candy.
For more than 85 years the Gates Rubber Factory produced belts, hoses and tires for the automotive industry. Established in 1911, the company employed more than 6,000 workers in its heyday and was the sixth largest rubber company in the nation. In the 1980s the Gates Corp. began downsizing as it moved operations overseas, then closed its Denver location permanently in 1995.
The company's 80-acre site straddling South ...