Burnham Yard is near a Superfund site, but experts say that shouldn’t deter stadium development

RTD’s 10th and Osage station with Burnham Yard in the background in Denver on Friday, July 25, 2025. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)The Denver Broncos may build the team’s next stadium near a Superfund site.

Burnham Yard, a former train depot linked to the Broncos as a potential site for a new football stadium, is not part of the 46-year-old Denver Radium Superfund Site, but it sits across railroad tracks from at least one property with existing contamination.

And at least one nearby parcel purchased earlier this year by business entities connected to the Broncos was once part of the Superfund site, according to a 2014 report from the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment.

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