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Denver Redevelopment Areas Stapleton Redevelopment Lauded as a national model of new urbanism and sustainability, Denver’s Stapleton airport redevelopment is 10 years into a 15 year build out. The former airport is 4,700 acres and 10 minutes from Downtown Denver. Cleveland-based Forest City Enterprises is the developer and began construction in 2001. Today more than 4,500 homes have been built as well as 400 apartments, retail and office space. At full build out, Stapleton is expected to be home to some 30,000 residents in 12,000 homes, with six schools, an 80 acres central park, a light-rail station, 10,000,000 sqft of planned office space, 1,500,000 sqft of retail space, and 1,100 acres for parks and open space. The $5 billion development has won numerous awards, including from the U.S. Conference of Mayors, the Urban Land Institute, the National League of Cities, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Stockholm Partnerships for Sustainable Development. Fitzsimons/Anschutz Redevelopment Formerlythe Fitzsimons Army Medical Center, the Anschutz Medical Campusis now touted as a model military base conversionanda catalyst ofregional economic development. Its economic impact onthe state amounts tomore than $2 billion in direct campus expenditures.The Anschutz Medical Campus directlyemploys more than 8,000 people andhas a total employment impact of more than 17,000 jobs in Colorado. The development now includes a cutting-edgehealth care campus that bridges education and research with two world-class hospitals and the schools and colleges ofMedicine, Nursing,Dental Medicine,Pharmacyand Public Health. Lowry Redevelopment When Lowry Air Force Base closed in 1994, the cities of Denver and Aurora lost 7,000 jobs and $295 million in annual spending. The Lowry Redevelopment Authority (LRA), a quasi-governmental entity, was created by the cities of Denver and Aurora to redevelop the base. The vision was to create a new urban community based on the best of classic Denver neighborhoods with the best new ideas in urban planning. Today, Lowry is one of Denver's premier neighborhoods and a national model of sustainable development. More than 25,000 people live, work and go to school there. The LRA is the master developer of Lowry, with responsibility for land planning, engineering, environmental cleanup, parks construction and sale of property to residential and commercial developers. It has a board of directors and several committees.