As Denver Water looks to free up land by its headquarters for the Denver Broncos, the utility hopes to relocate some operations to a former AT&T call center where redevelopment efforts have failed to take off.

The 235,000-square-foot building at 2535 E. 40th Ave., just east of York Street in the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood, sits on 14 acres. It has sat unused for years.

Now, in conjunction with some industrial parcels to the west, it’s the largest of three sites that Denver Water says it could move operations to when it sells 25 acres south of its headquarters to the Broncos.

The Broncos confirmed this week they intend to build a stadium at Burnham Yard, the state-owned former railyard in central Denver. Denver Water’s main base of operations is next door.

“For our relocation to work,

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