Metro State's Student Success Center Reveals Underlying Story

DENVER (Denver Business Journal) - The first building that Metropolitan State University of Denver ever built now stands open, with a shiny silver facade on the corner of Auraria Parkway and Ninth Street.

But the story about the ground under the Student Success Center, 840 Auraria Parkway, reveals a deep history of the area and highlights the less-glamorous work environmental engineers have to complete before any new classrooms open.

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