Below is an excerpt from the Wheat Ridge Renewal Authority's 2016 documentation of the preservation of Gold's Grocery Marketplace, the 1958-64 continuing partnership of Lee Doud and Copeland Designs.

The Property was originally developed by Lee W. Doud as three separate sections between 1958 and 1964 and attached into one continuous building. The first structure, Paramount Medical Building, was constructed in 1958. Then in 1960, Paramount Lanes & Super Market, designed by Curtis E. Copeland, was constructed. The final building, a restaurant, was completed in 1964. In the late 1980s, Robert Gold Jr. opened Gold’s Corner Grocery in the space once home to Woods Supermarket and later Marv’s Finer Foods. In 2000, Bob Gold and his wife JoAnn purchased the Property from the family of the original owners. Following 26 years of operating Gold’s Corner Grocery, Bob and JoAnn Gold sold the Property in 2015 to a local investment group, and Gold’s Grocery closed permanently.

The revitalization of the Property will help catalyze positive transformative change that is desired in the surrounding community, as well as the City of Wheat Ridge. With a vibrant new “front door” along Kipling Street, the Project will achieve the following goals set out in the I- 70/Kipling Corridor Plan:

• Eliminate and prevent blight,

• Enhance Wheat Ridge’s identity

• Expand the City’s commercial activities,

• Advance cultural art programs and capital investments,

• Support preservation of historic (or in this case iconic) structures

• Encourage the continued presence of existing viable businesses

• Develop and enhance community Gateways

• Maintain / develop public gather spaces

(Source: I-70/Kipling Corridors Urban Renewal Plan dated May 2009)