Lakota Canyon Ranch

Client: New Castle, CO

Location: New Castle, CO

Landscape Architect: Connect One Design

Architect: Z Group

Completion: Ongoing

Deep in the Rocky Mountains, just past Glenwood Springs, lies a small town called New Castle where an existing housing development built around a golf course continues to expand. This project although still conceptual offers more than just housing and begins to expand on the sense of a community. Allocating affordable housing in the Roaring Fork Valley is next to impossible being that Aspen is just up valley, so many workers have been pushed further and further down valley. A good portion of folks have already set up roots in New Castle, as affordability becomes more and more less... “Affordable”. This project allows for people to live further down valley while not excluding common necessities such as Starbucks, Brewpubs, Plaza Gathering spaces, and Walkability. Lakota Canyon is a project that hopes to bridge the gap that is the housing crisis and create a sense of place that isn't as dispersed as the people who live down valley and work up Valley.