Commerce City Wedding

Commerce City is a city in Adams County, Colorado and is a suburb of the city of Denver. As of 2005, the city is estimated to have a total population of 34,189.

Commerce City is best known for greyhound racing at the Wembley Park dog track [1] and for two oil refineries operated by Suncor, one of which was acquired from Valero in 2005. Valero.com

The Rapids Soccer Stadium is being built in Commerce City and the Colorado Rapids plan to move there in 2007.

Among the first establishments in the modern Commerce City were cemeteries. Riverside Cemetery, founded in 1876, is located in the city's southwest corner at East 52nd Avenue and Brighton Boulevard. Rose Hill Cemetery, in the heart of historic Commerce City, was established in 1892 on what at the time was an open plain by the United Hebrew Cemetery Association.

The first school in the area began in 1871 as a one-room schoolhouse, with other schools added in 1899 and later in 1907. This latter school is now part of the North Building at today's Adams City High School.