Sterling Ranch Town Center

Just beautiful. This is located in Douglas County, south of C-470 and west of Highway 85, near Roxborough Park.

The Buckley Buffer

Note: This video is unlisted and may disappear.  See the original link at https://www.tpl.org/our-work/parks-for-people/buckley-air-force-base

I personally don't see the need for so much open space in this area.  Most of Buckley is undeveloped and to the south is the Plains Conservation Center, which is 1000 acres of prairie and weeds.  It is not like this is beautiful woodlands or wetlands or something.  This is after all, in a city, and right next to a major road (Jewell) and next to a major freeway (E-470).  There is plenty of land to the east for open space if needed.

Kirkegaard Acres

This is one of the oldest neighborhoods in Aurora.  It is 100 acres located to the southeast of Airport & Colfax.

You don’t need a time machine to see what a typical Aurora neighborhood was like in the early 20th century. Tucked behind the buzz of East Colfax Avenue and East 14th Drive is an enclave of homes that look like farmhouses, where horses graze on spacious backyard lands. But horses and humans aren’t the only residents here. Raccoons, foxes, coyotes, skunks, great horned owls and red-tailed hawks also set up camp in the tall grasses and towering trees, just as they did a century ago. Members of the Danish Kirkegaard family settled the neighborhood in the early 1900s when East Colfax Avenue wasn’t so much an avenue as it was a dirt road paved well enough for horse-drawn-carriages. One of the Kirkegaards helped prepare the road by using mules to haul dirt. Yes, at one point there were furry, smelly quadrupeds moseying along Colfax.
http://www.aurorasentinel.com/aurora-magazine/features/simplicity-kirkegaard-acres/

Aurora getting piece of Stapleton

Source: http://www.denverrealestatewatch.com/2016/08/17/aurora-getting-piece-of-stapleton/

This new parcel will add an additional 27 acres to the current 63 acres in Bluff Lake neighborhood and will feature 322 new home base pricing from the high $200,000s to $400,000s, from six of Stapleton’s long standing builders.

1377 S Genoa Way

This is a vacant lot of 1.04 acres for sale at $68,500.  See: http://www.loopnet.com/Listing/19715528/1377-S-Genoa-Way-Aurora-CO/

The problem is that it is zoned industrial.  If it were zone residential, it would be worth at least $400,000.  So what would you do with it, build a warehouse?   Still the price is fantastic.

Update:  The land is totally unusable because S Genoa Way has not yet been built in the area.  So the person who buys it will have to sit on it for the next 20 years or longer until the area is developed.

4 Aces Bingo

Source: http://www.superpages.com/bp/aurora-co/4-aces-bingo-L0016810267.htm

4 Aces Bingo Hall, at 16000 E Colfax Ave, is now closed and for sale.  They want $1.9 million for it.  I think they should cut the price to under a million if they want to sell it anytime in the next 6 months.

But, but, but ... a small piece of vacant land at 16350 E Colfax sold for $3.1 million only a few months ago, so who knows.  Maybe it is the Chinese.  Update:  That price includes the apartment building next door at 16300 E Colfax.