Greenwood Village

Greenwood Village incorporated in 1950 and has spent the decades since holding two identities at once. The Denver Technological Center anchors the city’s east side as one of the region’s largest employment hubs, while the western half still has horse property, gravel roads and equestrian trails running through it. The T-REX light rail expansion, completed in 2006, brought stations at Orchard and Arapahoe roads and turned the area around them into walkable mixed-use development, most visibly at The Landmark.

A rural west side and a corporate east side, inside one city

Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre, annexed into the city in 2006, is the name most people outside the metro actually recognize, and it still draws national touring acts every summer. Less visible from the highway is Orchard Hills Park, where a working stable and riding trails sit inside city limits, and Silo Park, built around an actual grain silo left from the area’s farming history. The Museum of Outdoor Arts places sculpture throughout Marjorie Park and other public spaces around the city, which is not something most office-park suburbs bother with.

Housing here ranges from horse properties on multi-acre lots in the western neighborhoods to newer construction closer to the Tech Center and the light rail stations. Buyers tend to fall into two groups: families who want the acreage and equestrian access without leaving the metro area, and professionals who work at or near the Tech Center and want a short commute with more privacy than Denver proper offers.