Land purchases and community input: Broncos ownership's to-do list before Burnham Yard move

DENVER – As the Walter-Penner Family Ownership Group moves forward with its plans to build a new Denver Broncos stadium at its preferred site at Burnham Yard, the ownership group still has work to do before breaking ground on the project, including gathering input from community members and acquiring additional land.

“Greg Penner, the Broncos owner and CEO, said… 'Now we start to roll up our sleeves and start years of planning, and that's before shovels go into the ground,'" Parker Gabriel, a reporter with our partners at The Denver Post, explained. "They'll do the community benefits agreement with the neighboring communities. The city has an area plan. There's zoning permitting, all sorts of layers of approval, probably several votes at the city council level. There's just a lot of movin