Up five flights, down hallways, through locked doors, up
ladders and around piping,
duct work and metal supports
is the path to the top. It is worth the view.
“When you look down from the atrium up here, it’s pretty awesome,” said Lee Suttie, director of facilities. A narrow walkway — accessible only to keyed employees and the building’s window-washers — rings the glass dome that tops the Taj. It was the last section of the building completed and there is a steel beam to prove it.
“This is the last one we put in,” Suttie said, pointing it out during a recent tour. County employees working for Jeffco when the building was completed signed the beam, but some have managed to sneak up there and sign the beam post-construction. “Like the assessor,” Lee claims.
Kevin McCasky, county assessor, elected just a year ago, claims to have a fading memory and can’t recollect putting pen to steel. “The only thing I can think of is I took a tour when I was first sworn in and when I was up there, I must have signed my name,” McCasky said. “I just can’t remember.”