Streets of SouthGlenn

change one of the office buildings to multi-family. Schnitzer West, in their presentation requesting the change, said the purpose was to, “activate the overall development with an additional 24/7 component, providing more vibrancy to the area and more viability to retail along Greenwood Plaza Boulevard.”

Sweetland continued, “It will also be mixed-use with retail. It will be very walkable. The garage will be under and around the building, so you won’t see it. The garage space will be shared between the commercial building and the residential. Also, this will be a Business Improvement District, something that is new for us in Centennial.”

Streets of SouthGlenn

Streets of SouthGlenn (SOS) originally built in 1974 as an indoor mall, was redeveloped in 2006 “to an open walking-space mall, approved for 350 residential units and 909,000 square feet of retail. Alberta Development Partners owned everything except the Sears building (on the south end),” Sweetland said, explaining that when both Sears (in 2018) and Macy’s (in 2021) quit business at SOS, residents in the area attended multiple public input meetings about what would be built in their place. In 2020, when it was known that Macy’s would leave, Centennial approved 1,100 new residential units on both ends of SOS combined, in addition to the 300 that were already there. The city reduced the approved retail space to 621,000 square feet, but, Sweetland said, “We still want placemaking. There are lots of parks.” The developers hope to build condos and townhomes in addition to apartments and, she added, “It’s our understanding that the Macy’s property financing is in place and ready to go.”

AUC-4

AUC-4 (Arapahoe Urban District 4), located at the southwest corner of Arapahoe Road and I-25, is a 40-acre area. After studying it in 2007, Centennial hoped to see it “transformed into an economically vibrant, pedestrian-oriented, cohesive mixed-use environment.” When that plan did not materialize organically, in 2019, Centennial developed a City-Initiated Regulating Plan, including overlay zoning, and began to focus on distributing aid to local businesses to reflect its vision for redevelopment