The Last New Single-Family Homes in Denver Neighborhood

A new residential development in Denver neighborhood Stapleton, Colo. may be the last for the community, signaling an end to the single-family home construction wave that started in 2001.

By 2021, only commercial lots will be left, reports The Denver Post, explaining that Stapleton's construction boom started in its South End neighborhood in 2001, and its latest project in the North End, once sold, will mark its completion. Yet, Courtland Hyser, principal planner with the City of Denver, argues that there will be more new single-family home construction in the Mile High City, “Beyond what has come in for permits, there is all this land sitting out there that could be future single-family development,” referring to the city’s northeastern corner near Denver International Airport. Hyser asserts that other new single-family neighborhoods will be able to meet the task of drawing in new families. 

Developer Forest City is about to release the first of 1,300 single-family lots just south of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge on land that once hosted the northern runways of Stapleton International Airport. Workers with heavy equipment have been busy grading dirt, putting in roads and installing water and sewer infrastructure on land north of 56th Avenue, west of Havana street and east of Dallas Street.

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