Stanley Aviation was a company that designed, tested and manufactured ejection seats for the military. The factory was built in 1954 in Aurora, Colorado, near the old Stapleton Airfield and continued until 2007. Ten years later the sprawling facility opened as Stanley Marketplace. Since we are staying in Cherry Creek State Park in Aurora, we decided to check it out.
You can see the building was once a factory. They have kept the steel beams and concrete stairs.
The place is full of small shops and lots of places to eat. We couldn't resist checking out this train layout, built with legos.
If you look closely, you can see a large paper dragon hanging from the ceiling in this Chinese restaurant.
There are places for adults to work out as well as a place for young gymnasts to practice and learn.
One shop sold luscious-looking baked goods. This man had poured chocolate frosting on a thin plastic sheet. The frosting cooled quickly and he was able to pick it up and work with it. We aren't sure what he was going to use it for. We did see a cake in the background with a small sign saying "#1 Dad."
One of the restaurants obviously sold BBQ pork.
Trash containers were labeled for recycle of landfill. We even saw a container to collect compost!
This seating area is very modern looking. I'm not sure I really wanted to sit there, however.
This restaurant is the Denver Biscuit Company. If the biscuits are as large and yummy as they look in the wall mural shown in the lower photo, they would certainly be worth buying.
We settled for some "mooolicious" ice cream. I had a sugar cone with heath bar crunch, John had a cup of super vanilla.
We had a fun outing to Stanley Marketplace. What other interesting sites are there here we didn't know about? We have lived much of our lives in or near Denver and Aurora.
Well, now we have someplace to check out when we get there in September. (And, yes, I am binge reading your blog. Unfortunately, in reverse.)
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