AURORA, Colo. - The late, but hardly lamented, Stapleton Airport served the Denver area for 65 years, before being replaced by Denver International Airport in 1995. But remnants of Stapleton remain with more than 500 tons of the former runway crushed, recycled, and used as part of the foundation of a new Wal-Mart Supercenter.
It was the second state-of-the-art Wal-Mart Supercenter to open this year. Like the McKinney, Texas store, which was detailed in the Sept. 5 issue of The NEWS, the Colorado-based center contains dozens of experimental energy-saving technologies. In fact, this store has some additional unique heating, cooling, and refrigeration aspects.