Four Baggers and Foreclosures

Let’s not do just one gas station… But TWO! (Translation: I need a quick, easy story that I can just finish up without too much effort or soul searching, and be done with it in less than a week.) So this is the story of two gas stations. Both of which were located across the street, then closed up and demolished within 6 months of each other. One hadn’t been a gas station for decades, though it clearly was one in the past. The other gas station clung to life, years beyond its viability, before ultimately being replaced with a newer version of itself. Broadway & Orchard, looking south from the sidewalk. Broadway is one of the busiest north/south routes in the Denver metro area, an artery I travelled daily. But not as often to the south. Other than the King Soopers a few blocks away, I didn’t often have a reason to go south. Conoco/Phillips merger cut back drastically on their corporate run stores. This wasn’t exclusive to them, as all of your major oil refiners dropped out of the re...