Far be it from Denver to kick a diva when she's down.
But rumbling that Britney Spears may be moving to Cherry Creek North has brought angst to would-be neighbors.
"Guys crawling over the tops of cars to get a picture of her never-ending train wreck? That wouldn't fly with the residents," says Ed Thomas, a former councilman who now edits the Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle.
The Post's Bill Husted reports that Spears and her boyfriend have deposited $2 million for a house in the tony neighborhood. Her plans remain unclear since her police standoff last week managed to bump even the Iowa caucuses down in the headlines.
Meantime, Cherry Creekers are squawking as if someone had hung a "Highlands Ranch" sign on the street corner.
Their concerns center not only on the bad chi they say Spears would bring to the neighborhood. They're also freaked about the paparazzi they fear would block streets and ignore stop signs. You know, the same folks who pursued Princess Diana into that tunnel.
"That spectacle day after day would undermine the quiet undertones we enjoy here," says Gennifer Hobbs, who moved to Milwaukee Street to escape Manhattan.
Until the '50s, the area was mostly farmland bordered by the city dump where Cherry Creek Shopping Center now stands. When it started booming in the '90s, Thomas fielded calls from people who had scraped off bungalows to build postmodern condos, only to demand that lots next door be saved as open space.
No comments:
Post a Comment