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Chapter 1: Intro and why Parker is changing
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There are major changes happening in Parker right now that most residents don't even know about. So, we're going to dive into new builds, infrastructure,
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downtown changes, schools, everything that impacts your quality of life as a potential future perite.
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Absolutely. We are Jake and Megan Fredel. We are your full-time real estate agents, part-time tour guides to all things Southern Denver living. And whether you're looking to move in 9 days
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or 900 days, we've got you covered. We are always excited to hear from you. All of our information is in the description below.
Chapter 2: What makes living in Parker unique
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Just to kick this off right, I want to ask Jake, what is your favorite thing about Parker?
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Oh man, I love Parker. It's such a sweet town. It's got a really neat small town vibe, a really nice downtown main street
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area, and it's really turning into a real town. There's tons of of sort of mom and popop shop energy in a lot of
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the business around, but there's also access to all of your corporate stuff.
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Like if you need to go to Costco, it's just a few minutes up the road. You know, Target, all the big box stores are around here. It's got a great selection
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of grocery stores. And something unique about Parker is that you could be 10 minutes from downtown Parker sitting on 5 acres. So true.
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Super cool. And that's unique. There's not a whole lot of towns around that have that available.
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Oh, yeah. I agree. Now, we've lived our whole lives. Megan, how have you seen Parker change over the years?
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Oh, man. We both have seen a ton of change to come to Parker. And, you know, some people criticize some of the changes, but I think a lot of it is great. Uh, you mentioned the small town
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charm of Parker. I think it still retains that. Some people disagree, but I think it still has that really cute downtown vibe while still having so much
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building and growing. They've done a lot of beautifification to downtown Parker that we're going to launch into more later. And they've really just made it
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really cool. They've also just developed so much. There's a lot of places where we used to be as kids, we would have stand been standing in a big open field
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and now there's so much there. So, I'm excited about the changes and I think there's a lot to talk about, but I think it probably makes the most sense to
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start first with talking about all of the changes coming to residential real estate because there is a lot of new development for homes coming up. So, should we start with the new builds?
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Let's do it. Parker is known to have a ton of new builds. There's a lot that has already been done and there's a lot still coming on the way. One big change
Chapter 3: New construction and upcoming communities
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that we're seeing with builders is they're releasing a little fewer lots at a time. Couple years back, they were releasing tons of lots. There were
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weight lists at the Wazoo and that's cut back quite a bit. New Crossing is one of the active communities. It's pretty much fully built. A lot of the units have
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already been sold. There's a couple left, but it's fairly occupied. It's popular because it's a little closer to downtown in the trail, so it doesn't
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feel so isolated. It's pricing in the upper 600s to the mid800s, you know, depending on your upgrades. Of course, you already probably know this if you're
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looking into new builds, but I'm going to say this is a blanket statement for all of them. If the home looks like this, it's not builder grade. You know, they really deck these models out to the
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fullest extent. So, when you fall in love with the backsplash and the counters, you know, just make sure you're setting your expectations at the door. The style here is modern suburban.
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You know, clean layouts, attached garages, efficient floor plans. Pretty typical of a lot of the new builds you're seeing in a lot of these suburbs.
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One special feature about the Newland Crossings area is, you know, the location. It's it's in Parker, the new
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Parker, without feeling too far out like a lot of these new builds do feel. And Looking Glass is one of the biggest master plan communities that have been
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coming to Parker. Like Newland Crossing, there are a lot of lots that are already sold and some people already occupying them, but there's already still a lot
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going on right now and more coming in the future. Think thousands of homes coming, parks, trails, and schools. And you know, schools is kind of a hot
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button topic right now as far as Douglas County as a whole. We have seen some issues where we haven't had enough enrollment for some of the schools. And so often times schools will be zoned and
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planned and they won't actually put a school there. So, you know, when they say when you walk into the new build community and you see the school plan there, don't always take that at 100%.
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You know, these have not got yet funding and approval, so there's still a little bit up in the air for those. As of 2026, Looking Glass is in that early to mid buildout, so there's still a lot left to
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develop. The prices currently are ranging in the low 600s. You can't find too many of those, into the upper 900s.
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Again, depending on the builder and the phase and of course your upgrades. And then of course, also pay attention to your lot premiums. These are big here.
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Depending on where your house is going to be placed, it's going to make a big difference. The feel here is very family focused, outdoors oriented. Trails are a
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major feature. This is a long-term play, so if you're buying into a vision that's still being built, looking glass might just be it. As far as one of the
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portions of Looking Glass that is still yet to come is the Duos. These are currently in the building phase and
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they're going to be the duplexes and paired style homes. So, for anyone who's looking for new construction, but still does not really necessarily want a ton
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of maintenance. Um, this is a great option. Not a lot of yard to maintain and it is also going to accommodate a little bit of a lower price point with
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that than the single family homes. And then Trails at Crowoot. This one is also kind of nearing the end of its builder phase, so you're likely to maybe even
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see some resale here, but there are still some active new builds that would be brand new and fresh to you. Pricing here is going to be starting in the 600s and ending kind of in the upper 700s.
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So, as far as the ones we're talking about today, a little more accessible price-wise. The pitch for trails at Crowoot right now is really as being an
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active super outdoorsy build. So, they're really close to a lot of trails and the big draw is that access to the outdoor space. There's also, you know,
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like looking glass, multiple builders here. So, that really means a lot of different styles to pick from street to street. And then Tantara is also in its
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earlier buildout phase. So, you're going to see a lot of options coming up. And they have really worked to increase some affordability options. So, they have a
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duplex section here, and that's why those are going to be pricing in the 600s and their single family homes, you know, more in the upper 700s. A key feature about Tantara is this centrallylo neighborhood park it has.
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It's about 30 acres and it highlights kind of the natural play of the nature around the area. Multiple level play areas, a single track bike trail,
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multi-purpose turf areas, all the good things that your good solid park has, but pretty massive. And it's got a
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community pool. Three builders here are Richmond, Lenar, and Trumark. Trumark is the one that's currently available and
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selling. It's in the Kestrel neighborhood and the others are going to be following closely behind. And so those are all the homes that are currently actively selling. But what
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might matter to you more as a prospective potential buyer is the homes that haven't started building yet. The most notable of which is Kim Ranch. You
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know, currently it's set to be a pretty small community, about 150 homes.
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Because it's still coming soon, we're not completely sure on pricing yet. We have a guess though, knowing what other communities are looking like and kind of
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what the plans of this one looks like that we're probably seeing going to see those start in the high 600s. This is one to watch if you want to be in a new
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community early. I always heavily advise my folks who are looking at new builds, bring bring an agent. I'm not saying it
Chapter 4: Tips when buying new builds in Parker
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has to be us, but it should be us. But an agent, especially a good agent, is really going to sit with you on your monthly payment, help you figure out the
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true cost of these new builds. Because a lot of times you see starting at and you see their advertised monthly payment and
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these are not fully accurate. A lot of times the taxes are not set and the upgrades are not factored in. So that is one piece that we're always excited to
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help folks out with as well as really just kind of comparing and making sure that the value they are looking for is there. We can always keep you a breast
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of appreciation and how this home is going to do in a grand scale and all of that good stuff. So, bring an agent.
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Call one of us. We're always happy to tag along with you and help you see some of the stuff that might not be super obvious. And the kicker, if you don't
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bring an agent on your very first visit to a new build, you may not be able to have one by your side the whole time.
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So, bring an agent and bring them the first goound.
Chapter 5: Downtown Parker lifestyle and restaurants
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So, I'm a huge fan of downtown Parker.
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It's a great place to hang out. There's tons of stuff that goes on down there. I mean, it's no downtown Castle Rock, but it's certainly miles beyond Highlands Ranch and Lone Trees downtown areas.
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What is your favorite memory of hanging out in downtown Parker?
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Uh, I love downtown Parker. Um, the tailgate is a place that everybody in Parker knows well and you've all everybody's been there, right?
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Everyone in Parker has a tailgate story.
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If you don't, you're not really a Parkerite yet.
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True. So, I was at the tailgate and I was wearing new shoes and I don't know what happened, but I just stepped wrong and the heel snapped off. I had to go the rest of the night without my shoe.
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But great music, still really fun time.
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And we have a whole deep dive about Parker that goes into Tailgate if you want to check out that video.
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Yes. And all the other restaurants around there. But those are restaurants that had a long time standing.
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Tailbeat's been around forever. Of all of the new restaurants, have you been to any of the new ones?
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Yeah, you know, I've been to a couple new spots. Um, it's not super new, but the Wild Goose Saloon is right behind there, just a little south. That's a really cool spot with an awesome view.
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And then, of course, Lal on the north side of town. Uh, Lal comes to us from a family of restaurants. They have a few spots. There's one in Castle Rock,
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there's another Loma, and then there's Sierra over in Ridgegate in Lree. And Llama is legendary for awesome
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margaritas, high quality food, and just the the restaurants these folks build are stunningly beautiful exteriors. The
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it's one of my favorite date night spots because it just feels good to be there.
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It's like not necessarily a speak easy cuz it's a really large restaurant, but it's got like that kind of vibe. The lighting is perfect. The only sad thing
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about Laloma and Parker is it doesn't have the views that the other two restaurants have, but Castro Castro is beautiful. Cast got an
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amazing view, but it is still such a high quality restaurant. I've never had bad service there. All the people are super friendly and super highly highly skilled.
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Yeah. And so it's not just a llama that's new. There's a ton that's happening downtown. A lot of building, a lot of retail, shopping. So I think we got to talk about it all. Let's launch
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into a little bit about downtown and everything that's changing there.
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Let's go. Big downtown developments coming our way. So, we've got the Juniper, which is a multi-building,
Chapter 6: Major downtown development projects
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several story apartment complex with 260 residential units plus commercial locations on the main. Now, what's
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coming, we only have a couple of confirmed tenants so far, but we've got Pulette Bake Shop is moving there. So, they're an already existing bake shop.
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It's a James Beard awardwinning bake shop, and it's crazy pants good. Like, if you haven't been there, you have to
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check it out. Um, and it's just surprising to see a James Beard award-winning restaurant in Parker.
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Another one is Cask and Troder from the same folks who own Wolf and Peach. Wolf and Peach is a great restaurant. Cask and Troder is going to bring the same
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class and the same delicious food to this location, just a little more walkable to downtown Parker. Uh, other things that are coming, we've got more
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apartment developments. Uh, we're turning some of the surface parking lots into more retail spaces and really cool
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things like that. And I know what you're thinking. Okay, parking in downtown Parker, maybe you're not thinking of this if you haven't been there yet, but
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parking in downtown Parker is actually phenomenal. There's so much parking and all of it is pretty much open, but they
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are making a multi-story indoor parking garage. So, the parking isn't going to suffer because of this.
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It'll just be relocated slightly. That's all part of a development called My Main Street, which has been an initiative to just make downtown Parker more walkable,
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more beautiful. And it's also paired up with several beautifification projects where they're just making uh nicer
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medians, more areas for seating, uh decorative lamps, and all sorts just to make it feel more homey and like a
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really nice Main Street. Now, we've some of our clients have given us the feedback like, "Great job on Main Street. What about the rest of Parker?
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Uh, you turn two streets down and it looks like a completely different town.
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Yeah, totally valid feedback. I still think a lot of that area is really nice.
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It's just not as nice. But give Parker a shot. These folks, it's actually a really well done and well-run local government. Uh, I've had a couple
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dealings with Parker downtown selling commercial buildings and these folks are really trying to do their best to help
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Parker develop into a beautiful town and I think they're really succeeding in most ways. So, give it some time and I think more development is going to come
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down the road. So, in the overall downtown Parker is just becoming a much more walkable, fun place to hang out and I could see it rivaling Castle Rock's awesome downtown in the next few years.
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Some of the things we've got coming, I mentioned Cast and Trotder, great spot.
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We've got a homegrown tapendo. We've got Laloma that came in 2025. We've got a new chicken salad chick planned, which
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is a fast uh casual southern chicken salad concept. We've got a Duncan, shout out to my Northeast friends in Philly.
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And we've got a Canali Takaria and a veria. So, lots of good things coming this way. Plenty of places for date
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night. Okay, we'd be remiss to not talk about the traffic in the infrastructure updates cabinet. Megan, what do our clients say about traffic?
Chapter 7: Traffic and infrastructure improvements
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Okay, our clients are always vocalizing their different opinions about traffic, but I would find I find that usually the clients we've had that have lived here
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the longest have the most complaints and that's just because they've seen so much change. A lot of our older clients moved here when there was not much traffic and
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not a ton going on and they really moved here for this small town connection and they kind of had to trade that out over the years. But then you know we have
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some clients from some much bigger areas and they are like what what traffic you know of course you have like a little bit of daily commute annoyance here and
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there but as a whole Parker traffic it's all about where you come from or you know how long you've lived somewhere.
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And to address the complaints though, Parker is doing some stuff. They're widening some roads. We do have some changes to Dansfelt and Chambers Road.
Chapter 8: New road connections and commuting impacts
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That's probably one of the biggest infrastructure changes that we're really going to see. It really affects daily life and it started at the end of 2025.
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It's the connection between Dansfelt Road and S South Chambers Road. is completed by the town of Parker and before it opened if you lived in areas
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like looking glass or Hess Ranch or over nearby Crowoot most of your north to south trips funneled into Lincoln Avenue or Jordan Row and this helps a lot with
Chapter 9: School changes across Douglas County
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that. In case you're wondering this wind we're experience today is not a change coming to Parker. It's always been there. But other things that are
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changing in Parker include a lot of changes to the school. And you know I mentioned this a little bit earlier when I talked about some of those schools that did not open up. But it's not just
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schools that didn't open because they didn't have an enough enrollment. It's schools that closed down as well. Now, this mostly happened in other areas of
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the county like Castle Rock and Highlands Ranch, but it's a countywide issue where there isn't enough enrollment in schools and so they're either closing them down or not opening
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up planned school sites. This is impacting parents who currently thought that they had a really easy route to their closest school. Maybe they thought
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they were a couple minute uh walk or even just drive and they have to go a little bit further. It's impacting people currently, but we have to think about the broader picture here as well.
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In the future, this could have massive impacts. We know that right now baby boomers are staying put. They're not making moves like they have in the past.
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And eventually, this will change. In the real estate world, we refer to this as the silver tsunami. And when that happens and these homes start to turn
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over, what will come in is probably millennial and younger families who will come and bring their kids. When that happens, I think there will be a massive
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shift of more kids needing these schools. And so, we really just kind of have to see how that's going to impact the infrastructure. Hopefully, for these
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areas that have just closed down schools that currently exist, we can just open those back up. But for those who shut down the funding for building the new schools, that'll be a longer turn time.
Chapter 10: Hospital expansion and economic growth
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Parker Healthcare is also seeing a little bit of a makeover and expansion.
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They're expanding over at Advent Health and Parker Hospital, and that started at the very end of 2025, but not much has happened yet. The main hospital in
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Parker broke ground on a major 300 millionoll expansion project. It's going to include a new 186,000
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ft 7story patient tower, additional operating rooms, emergency department space, and about 60 new medical and
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surgical beds. These floors are designed for future expansion of an ICU or even patient care access areas. And Kaiser has expanded. They opened up a new
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larger building. Now, you might be wondering outside of just your own personal care, why do all of these hospital growth and expansions matter?
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Well, I don't know. That's Jake's biz.
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How you know it's not AI, folks. So, why it does matter? Okay, it does improve access to health care because this is a
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much bigger healthcare system, but it also provides tons of economic opportunity. There's going to be so many jobs in this gigantic new hospital,
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which means if you're in healthcare, this gives you a pool of jobs to search for if Parker is the perfect place for you. In addition, this signals
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confidence in Douglas County, uh, knowing that Parker is going to continue growing into a sort of miniature
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suburban metropolis. Uh, Douglas County has been one of the fastest growing counties in Colorado, in the country, ever since I was a kid. It's going to
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keep growing and it's going to expand specialized care in the area. So, if you need specialized care, you're not going to have to drive all the way to Denver
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to get it. You just drive 15 minutes up the road to Advent Health. So, lots of great reasons to be excited about this
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development here. Oh, and another one is a lot of the new build development in Parker is aimed at 55 plus and active adult communities, which is really cool.
Chapter 11: 55+ housing trends in Parker
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We have some beautiful single family homes that are all ranch style homes on one level, which for whatever reason is honestly really hard to find. Uh, a lot
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of folks find themselves looking for something beautiful, but that is also small and doesn't mean isn't meant for a large family anymore once their kids
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have left the nest. Uh, so for those folks aiming at the 55 plus communities, really nice to have some extra specialized care right up the road. As
Chapter 12: Final thoughts and how to connect with us
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much as I like hanging out with my sister every Friday and recording these videos, what we really love is helping people find their dream home. So whether
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you're thinking about it in 9 days or 900 days, please reach out. We'd love to have a strategy session with you. All our information is in the description below.
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Absolutely. And if more of Parker is what you want, more is what we've got.
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We have deep dives on neighborhoods, the pros, the cons, and all of the surrounding areas. So, be sure and subscribe so you can be the very first to get it all.
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Thanks so much for joining us, and we'll see you next time.
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