Englewood, the city of 32,000 people and about 2,000 businesses just south of Denver, faces the same problem encountered by thousands of suburbs: It has nowhere to grow but up.
Englewood is a landlocked community.
“There really isn’t a whole lot of developable or vacant ground,” notes community development manager Harold Stitt.
Englewood also is not a big city geographically. “We re a fairly small community, roughly 6.5 square miles,” Stitt says. “There are a few unincorporated parcels surrounding Englewood that technically could be annexed, but for one reason or another that is not likely to happen anytime soon.”
That’s why the city planners know what’s happening with pretty much every square inch of Englewood, and why a few major projects can have a big impact on the community.
None is bigger than the $400 million Kent Place project, begun by Denver-based Continuum Partners in 2005 with the $12.4 million purchase of the 11.4-acre property on the corner of East Hampden Avenue and South University Boulevard, formerly the Denver Seminary (and long before that Kent Denver School, hence the project’s name).
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