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The Castle Rock Promenade Development Projects:
The Promenade project achieved nearly 700,000 square feet of business space in 4-1/2 years. A nice accomplishment given current market conditions for retail space in the age of growing on-line shopping. There is noticeable progress being made in the construction of La Loma Restaurant. Projected opening will be in the Fall of 2019. La Loma is a Mexican Kitchen restaurant concept. On Yelp, customers consistently rate La Loma in Denver as 4.5 stars and “one of the best Mexican restaurants. The appeal of this Mexican recipes is their shbowl-size margaritas, and it’s family-friendly, cantina atmosphere. The site for this new restaurant should a ord customers an excellent view of the Front Range toward Castle Pines and beyond. There will be ample outdoor patio seating available to patrons.
Whole Foods plans to have their grand opening sometime early January or February in early 2020. The natural-grocery supermarket chain has signed a 20-year lease for space in Promenade, the 166-acre retail development just north of the Outlets at Castle Rock between I-25 and Highway 85. Whole Foods, which was purchased by Amazon last year for some $13.7 billion, calls itself “America’s Healthiest Grocery Store” and was already considered the nation’s largest organic grocer even before the Amazon merger, but the company had been reeling for years due to increased competition, and store sales had lagged for seven straight quarters when Amazon purchased it. There are nearly 500 Whole Foods locations in North America and the United Kingdom. Soon you too can shop locally at a Whole Foods near you!
More retail stores are coming to the Promenade soon! I will continue to monitor and report future development projects.
Castle Rock Parks and Recreation:
According to recent U.S. Census data, Castle Rock is currently the 7th fastest growing city in America, which tasks the Parks and Recreation Department with being a dynamic, progressive agency. Established in 1977, the Parks and Recreation Department served a population of merely 2,000. Through robust community planning, nearly 65,000 residents now enjoy 87 miles of trails, 50 well-planned parks - including the re-imagined Festival Park - and more than 6,000 acres of open space that de ne the region’s most prominent features. Just this past month, Castle Rock dedicated the new Zach S. Parrish III Memorial Park. This 5.5-acre park, at the intersection of Low Meadow Boulevard and Red Hawk Drive, was opened and dedicated on Saturday, Aug. 16, 2019. The park includes outdoor games such as pickle ball, bocce ball, and cornhole. A playground, picnic shelters, trails and a multi-use eld round out the park. Parks and Recreation will soon host the ribbon cutting ceremony for the o cial opening of the East Plum Creek Trail Southern Extension. East Plum Creek Extension 10K and Art Run 5K was rescheduled to Friday, September 20 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. The East Plum Creek Trail travels along the East Plum Creek corridor, north to south through Town. The trail travels 6 miles from Castle View High School to South Perry Street. In addition to daily activity, the trail network is actively used for several special events including Bike to Work Day, Pedal the Moon and the Castle Rock Half Marathon. The East Plum Creek Trail is not only the Town’s most widely used paved trail, but it is also part of a larger statewide trail system – the Colorado Front Range Trail. That trail system will eventually connect
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