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Prospect New Town
Prospect, Colorado's first New Urbanist community, is located on an 80-acre former tree farm in the Front Range city of Longmont. The New Urbanist planning movement proposes an antidote to conventional, sprawling suburban development that is characterized by oversized front yards, wide, featureless streets, and inhospitable house fronts dominated by huge garage doors. Prospect, in common with other New Urbanist communities, instead features narrow, tree-lined streets connecting home to numerous parks and public amenities, shops, and offices. Home types include detached houses, townhouses, courtyard houses, apartments, and live/work lofts. Mature trees have been planted along Prospect's streets and in its parks to provide the shade and privacy typical of an established community.
The neighborhood, now in its fourth phase of development, will eventually have up to 585 units on 340 lots. A huge community park surrounded by shops, a swimming pool, restaurants and offices form the town center, and all of this is within a 5-minute walk of Prospect's homes.
Prospect is located near the southern edge of Longmont on U.S. Highway 287 and Pike Road, in Boulder County. It's an easy ten minute drive from Boulder, 30 minutes from downtown Denver, and about 45 minutes from the Denver International Airport.
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