RidgeGate

Lone Tree, Colorado

A Transit-Oriented Community

Providing an important counterpoint to sprawl, RidgeGate is urban, making it three times as compact and dense as typical suburban developments, creating a community of 12,000 homes and over 20 million square feet of commercial on its 3500-acres of land. From its outset, RidgeGate was conceived as an urban center because it was planned at the same time RTD was planning its ‘F’ train line. This process resulted in a transit-oriented development including three stations that provide full access to mixed-uses that are easily walkable from jobs, homes and open spaces.

Approximately 20% of its land has been dedicated to open spaces that are part of the region’s natural drainage ravines and bluff. This enables people at RidgeGate to have “one foot in the city and one foot in nature” because of the connections that link mixed-use sub areas and neighborhoods to regional open spaces and trails including the East-West trail that will link 26 miles of spectacular bluffs and native grasslands that will be preserved in perpetuity.

Services Provided: Master Planning, Site Planning, Urban Design, Sustainable Design, Signage and Wayfinding, Entitlement, Design Guidelines, Public Facilitation & Outreach

Client

Coventry Development Corporation