“We want to see the project spill over into the neighboring community,” Thornton Councilman Justin Martinez said. “I want to see this development as a catalyst to further improvem…
Time took its toll on the Thornton Shopping Center, rendering the strip mall a crumbling,
blighted mess as the city exploded from fewer than 10,000 people then to nearly 150,000 today. Now Thornton wants to bring the site back to its former glory — but with a decidedly non-1950s twist.
