Homes for Sale in Englewood

Englewood is its own city, not a Denver neighborhood, and its independent streak still runs through the community today — a small city anchored by nationally significant medical institutions, with a city center in active redevelopment.

The housing stock holds one genuine landmark: Arapahoe Acres, a 124-home subdivision built between 1949 and 1957 in the International and Usonian styles — in 1998, the first post-WWII suburban residential subdivision in the United States listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Homes there don't come up often.

The history behind that independence is scrappy. Englewood incorporated in 1903 and beat back two Denver annexation attempts in the mid-1920s, first by four votes, then by six. Then in 1968 came Cinderella City Mall, which opened as the largest covered shopping mall west of the Mississippi River — a spectacular statement that became a cautionary tale as suburban retail shifted, closing its last store in 1997.

What rose on the demolished mall site was CityCenter Englewood, one of Colorado's earliest transit-oriented mixed-use redevelopments, with the old Foley's department store building retained and converted to house Englewood's City Hall and public library, the one physical thread connecting old to new. Two institutions give Englewood an anchor that most cities its size don't have: Swedish Medical Center, one of the largest hospitals in the Denver metro, and Craig Hospital, a nationally ranked rehabilitation hospital that draws patients from across the country. They aren't just local employers; they bring a professional density that shapes the fabric of the city.

The candid note for buyers: CityCenter is under active redevelopment today, with new residential, retail, and restaurants planned. It's a site in motion, not a finished product — a fit for buyers drawn to a fiercely independent small city that's remaking its center.