DENVER (CBS4) - After weeks of voting and discussion, the Stapleton neighborhood was renamed as the Central Park neighborhood. The final vote by residents came on Saturday, with 63% in favor of ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Leaders in northeast Denver’s Stapleton neighborhood announced its new name Saturday morning: Central Park. In June, the Stapleton Master Community Association voted ...

Central Park received 63 percent of the votes, beating out Skyview as the top choice in the final round of voting that wrapped up on July 30. A total of 5,834 votes were counted.

The Denver neighborhood had been named after the city's first municipal airfield, which itself was named for Benjamin Stapleton, a leading member of the Ku Klux Klan who was elected mayor in 1923.