Denver (KDVR) – For more than a decade, Denneverit, who is driving near Colfax Street and Colorado Bolivard Street, wondered about what would happen to the old royal palace motor building.
Motel has stood in 1565 Colorado Bolivard, north of Colfax Street, since 1969, and on Tuesday, the building met its fateful end. It will be replaced by a residential building.
The hotel closed its doors in 2013 and has been vacant since then. Over the years since abandoned it, it has been the source of many calls and emergency crimes.
One of the former owners of the hotel, Schul Turner, told Fox31 that the property has a bad history of the breaks, which led to about $ 20,000 of expenses every month.
Population has mixed feelings about the teacher’s vision demolished.
“He was always there, I will miss him,” said one of Turner’s men.
Others say that the old building disrupts the recent progress and aesthetics in the City Park neighborhood.
“I am very excited, it’s such eyes and he is very experienced,” said one of the other population Turner.
However, its history of crime precedes its abandoned age.
One of the notorious cold cases that occurred at the hotel is the killing of John Egrez. According to the investigation office in ColoradoEGGERS was a guest at the hotel when he was killed. A housekeeper entered his room and found him dead inside, and the suspects or suspects were not identified to this day.
History of the Motel of the Royal Palace
before The highway is built 70Colfax was known as the “Rocky Gate” and was the main road in the high city and the high country. The 1960s brought a lot of tourism and traffic to Colfax Street, old hotels and neon brands in the middle of the century that remain today as a glimpse of the days of the glory of the highway.
During the 1960s and 1970s, Colfax Street became a haven for naked bars and explicit sexual theaters, according to the Denver Public Library. This was the title of “The Longist, Wickedst Street in America” by PlayBoy magazine.
The 70th Highway was completed in the Denver area in the late sixties and early seventies, A steady decrease in traffic begins On the highway, according to the Collefa Avenue Museum website.