People who live near the Zuni Generating Plant along the South Platte River are worried Xcel Energy will knock it down instead of preserving it.
approved a plan to decommission it and conduct environmental remediation at the site. That plan, however, would ultimately result in the building’s destruction.
But the community hasn’t heard much from Xcel, according to Susan Powers, president of Urban Ventures, which redeveloped a historic building across the street from the plant into STEAM on the Platte, a multi-use space for community and business., gathering to learn about the Beloit Powerhouse in Wisconsin, which is another old steam plant that got adapted for community use as the student union at Beloit College.
The idea for the adaptive reuse project there started in 2009 and came to fruition in 2020. To build the Beloit Powerhouse, Schooff said the parties had to engage with each other in good faith and recognize each other’s needs. Once they determined what was possible, they entered into negotiations over a definitive purchase agreement — hashing out liability, costs and details over multiple conversations.At the Zuni station, asbestos abatement is currently in progress.
Both buildings are roughly 80,000 square feet and started off as coal plants. The Zuni station was built in 1900, then transformed into a steam plant in the 1940s and a natural gas plant in the late ’70s. and one of the people in attendance at the May 25 forum — and Powers had coffee to discuss Schlegel’s idea to adapt the building into a food distribution space since it had been retired.
“The plant seems to be kind of accelerating its movement toward demolition,” Schlegel pointed out at the meeting. “In your shoes, how would you approach working with Xcel?," he asked Schooff. Xcel’s plan for after the building was remediated and destroyed was to put a new electricity substation on the property. Last July, the Sun Valley Community Coalition — the registered neighborhood organization for one impacted area — voted to oppose a substation no matter what happens with the building.
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