Oakwood Homes is building several new housing developments east of Picadilly Road near Green Valley Ranch: Retreat Collection at the Reserve; Horizon Collection at Green Valley Ranch / Meridian Collection at Green Valley Ranch; and Carriage House at Green Valley Ranch. They are also developing "The Enclave at Green Valley Ranch". Also "The American Dream" and "Fairway Villas (55+)" (made up of Bungalows and Villas at Fairway Villas) are close by.
And don't forget Commerce City: Sterling Collection at Reunion, Meridian Collection at Reunion, and Carriage House at Reunion. And of course Adonea, which I have mentioned before. And if you want to go farther afield, they are also building in Erie Highlands. These are all so new that they don't show up on Google Maps, and their website has very little information. So there could be a whole series of articles about these, which I may or may not make. Stay tuned.
Monday, August 3, 2020
Harmony Park
Inside this finger of land between E Alameda Avenue and Robertsdale Street is a very cool park, with a nice playground for kids and a nice walking trail around it. The houses on Scottsburg just to the west of the park are all model homes for the new Harmony subdivision that is being built.
What is interesting is that on three sides this is surrounded by farmlands and on the 4th side to the north is vacant land ready to build homes on. I love this park and give it an A on my list of exurban parks.
Future Walmart at Jewell and E-470
I don't know if the Walmart is planned or if this is just an example of what someone thinks could be built there. The site marked in red is for sale for $3.7 million. It seems kind of pricey for an awkward piece of land, but it is still cheaper than other retail land in Aurora. Anyways, the Walmart caught my attention. Maybe this will be built in 20 years.
Wednesday, July 29, 2020
Aurora Places Plan
Source: https://www.auroragov.org/UserFiles/Servers/Server_1881137/File/Business%20Services/Planning/Comprehensive%20Plan/Aurora%20Places%20Plan%20Adopted.pdf
This is a fascinating plan, showing future Aurora growth. I'm interested in the section that is mostly yellow above. The yellow shows housing, red commercial and green is open space. The boundaries are roughly Gun Club on the west, I-70 on the north, Imboden Road on the east (although portions go all the way east to Schumaker) and Quincy Road on the south. This is an enormous area which is about 7 miles north/south and 7 miles east/west.
I took an existing map and drew on it to show the same area:
This is kind of embarrasing. It might be fun for a kid to do. Anyways, you can see that the major north/south arterials are Gun Club Road, Monaghan Road (in pink) and Watkins Road. The major east/west arterials are Sixth Avenue and Jewell.
The major commercial zones are: the northwest corner of E-470 and I-70, south of Watkins, near Jewell and Gun Club, at the the intersection of Jewell and Monaghan, and the intersection of Watkins Road and Jewell. Basically any place those arterials mentioned above meet. I'm not sure about 6th and Monaghan, because Sky Ranch is planning on developing at least 3 of those corners.
Anyways, we are talking about a planning area of 49 square miles. 6 of those are off-limits because of the landfill, and another one in the far southeast corner (off limits because of possible bombs). That leaves 42 square miles. Of those, I think 4 are fully developed.
I don't think this will ever happen. Truthfully, I don't think Monaghan Road will ever be built. The only segment that currently exists is between Colfax and 6th. I think just focus on the area west of Powhatan and north of 6th Avenue.
Westminster Uplands
The Westminster Castle was built in 1892 near 83rd and Federal. It was purchased by the Pillar of Fire church in 1920 and used as a school. There are 150 acres of farmland north of the building. Now the church is selling the land to a developer who plans on building "2,350 apartments, townhomes and single-family detached homes along with office, commercial, retail, civic and recreational areas". Construction is supposed to begin in 2021 and take 15-20 years. I think the castle will be preserved since it is a historic landmark. There is a farmhouse and barn on the property which I am
This still seems like it is in the early planning stages and there are no maps of the proposed development. The neighbors want to preserve the entire area as open space, but of course they don't want to pay for it.
See: denverpost.com/2019/09/09/westminster-development-open-space-population-growth/
https://uplandscolorado.com/
Here is a current map of the area.
East Creek by Meritage
This is a map of the East Creek development on the northwest corner of Buckley and Alameda.
This is the satellite view beforehand.
East Creek refers to East Tollgate Creek that passes by the top of the property (off the map). It is dry most of the time. I think it runs northwest.
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