Homes for Sale in Lowry

Lowry is the rare master-planned Denver community that is finished. Its buildout completed years ago, and it shows: the trees are mature, the parks are established, and the community has had time to develop a genuine identity. Planned from the beginning as a complete neighborhood, not a subdivision, it holds approximately 4,500 homes and 800 acres of parks and open space.

The housing was laid out in the New Urbanist tradition — front porches facing the street, alley-loaded garages, tree-lined boulevards, and a connected street grid — and the redevelopment preserved three structures on the National Register of Historic Places, along with Officers' Row, the historic district of base-era houses.

For over half a century, this land belonged to the Air Force. From 1938 until the base closed in 1994, Lowry Air Force Base was one of the most active training installations in the country — more than 1.1 million military personnel trained here — and the redevelopment of the land it left behind became a national model for base reuse. The neighborhood's name honors Lieutenant Francis Brown Lowry, a Denver native killed in World War I, and the history lives on in the preserved buildings, the museum, the street names, and the chapel where President Eisenhower attended services during his summers in Denver.

Daily life centers on Hangar 2, the converted WWII-era hangar turned dining district, and the Safeway-anchored Lowry Town Center, for food and everyday errands. Cherry Creek is roughly a ten-minute drive for boutique shopping and denser dining, and Central Park, Lowry's larger neighbor, sits just to the north. RTD bus routes 6, 10, and 73 serve the neighborhood.

That maturity is one of the things buyers who choose Lowry keep coming back to. The trade-offs: retail density beyond its own centers is modest, and Lowry has no rail service — the A Line belongs to Central Park next door.