Northglenn

Northglenn was platted in 1959 by the Perl-Mack Company, the development firm run by Jordon Perlmutter, as a fully master-planned community, one of the first of its kind in the Denver area, with residential, commercial and civic land uses laid out from day one rather than built up piecemeal. Incorporation took a decade to finish: the town’s 1969 bid was contested by neighboring Thornton, which wanted the same land, and Northglenn only became a city after winning that legal fight on April 19, 1969.

A mall that came and went

The Northglenn Mall opened March 14, 1968, an enclosed regional shopping center that anchored the young city’s commercial identity for two decades. Like a lot of first-generation enclosed malls, it declined through the late 1980s and 1990s and was demolished in 1998. It was rebuilt as the open-air Northglenn Marketplace between 1999 and 2001, went through a foreclosure in 2011, and was redeveloped again starting in 2017. It’s now leased above 90 percent, and Prost Brewing opened a flagship location there in 2024, a sign the corridor has stabilized.

Growth around the N Line

RTD’s N Line reached Northglenn on September 21, 2020, with a station at 112th Avenue that the city has built an active transit-oriented development plan around. That’s meaningful for buyers: it’s one of the few Denver suburbs where a light rail stop, not just a highway exit, anchors the next phase of growth. The city is about 38,900 people as of a 2025 estimate, with a large Hispanic and Latino population, roughly 38 percent, and a median home value around $462,000, well below Boulder County’s north suburbs and still below much of Denver proper.