Getting better with age: As Green Valley Ranch marks 40th birthday, its newest neighborhoods are well situated

In 1981, erstwhile the archetypal world was moved for a residential assemblage eastbound of Tower Road astatine E. 48th Avenue, cipher could person imagined however well-situated Green Valley Ranch would 1 time travel to be.

Now arsenic the master-planned assemblage marks its 40th birthday, Green Valley Ranch is pushing eastbound from its Denver origins into the metropolis of Aurora, wherever it’s surrounded by immoderate of the area’s astir precious amenities—the Anschutz aesculapian campus, the E-470 beltway, and the caller airdrome and its ‘Aerotropolis’ infrastructure.

A caller airdrome wasn’t adjacent connected the skyline erstwhile Green Valley Ranch saw its archetypal homeowners determination in, who became portion of 1 of Colorado’s archetypal ‘master-planned communities’—to person parks, trails, schools, shopping, and different amenities that were different miles distant crossed farmland.

Oakwood Homes, present Green Valley Ranch’s maestro developer, is astatine enactment present connected the newest amenities that volition service Aurora neighborhoods successful the community, eastbound crossed Picadilly Road from already-completed areas that are successful the metropolis of Denver.

“Our newest residents inactive person large entree to Green Valley Ranch Golf Club and to assemblage events that person go portion of beingness for residents successful the older areas of Green Valley Ranch,” says Rhett Nelson Regional Sales Manager. He oversees income of Oakwood’s newest Meridian, Horizon and Carriage House Collections of homes successful Green Valley Ranch, starting from the debased $400s.

Just northbound of wherever you tin circuit those models astatine Green Valley Ranch Boulevard and Picadilly, you tin spot a Farmhouse styled excavation and clubhouse already taking signifier to service Oakwood’s earliest move-ins astatine The Reserve, its newest age-55-plus assemblage successful Green Valley Ranch.

Meanwhile, says Nelson, those newest Oakwood neighborhoods prevarication astatine the halfway of the astir salient infrastructure developments happening present successful Aurora and Adams County.

Twenty-six years ago, Green Valley Ranch moved from being an municipality outlier to becoming a midpoint connected the way to Denver International Airport. The caller aerial hub brought on a freeway (Peña Boulevard) to service Green Valley Ranch, followed adjacent by the E-470 Beltway that present puts residents wrong commuting scope of tech campuses successful Boulder and Broomfield Counties, and southbound astatine Buckley AFB, Lone Tree, and the Denver Tech Center.

DIA’s accomplishment besides led to a big of related employment sites that are integral to the 52-square-mile airport, including the precocious completed Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center, 2 miles northbound of the caller neighborhoods.

Oakwood’s Kara Svendson, who volition amusement you those Meridian and Horizon exemplary homes today, notes that E-470 is precise convenient for residents; but they besides person large entree to numbers of arteries that don’t necessitate utilizing a toll road. Major market buying and different conveniences are already adjacent by arsenic portion of Green Valley Ranch’s existing infrastructure.

Oakwood’s newest neighborhoods astatine Green Valley Ranch are conscionable eastbound of Picadilly connected Green Valley Ranch Boulevard. Take the DIA Freeway/Peña Boulevard to Green Valley Ranch Boulevard and crook eastbound 3 miles; oregon from E-470 exit astatine E. 56th, crook westbound to Picadilly, past south.

The quality and editorial staffs of The Denver Post had nary relation successful this post’s preparation.