Quality of Life

The City and County of Broomfield offers a small-town living with all of the assets and amenities found in a large metropolitan area. The cost of living in the area is very competitive with other metro areas that we typically compete with for development. The City and County of Broomfield for many years has continually updated its master plan. The last revisions were done in 2005, reflecting all of the sub-area master plans that have been approved over the last three years.

Residents of Broomfield enjoy a variety of housing stocks with prices ranging from $200,000 to $225,000 for starter homes to over $2 million for custom estate homes. There are over three dozen different neighborhoods and major housing developments in Broomfield with many of those areas providing affordable apartments and condominiums as well as affordable housing stock. The average price of homes sold in Broomfield in 2005 ranged from $180,000 to $230,000 for condominiums and townhouses and from $200,00 to over $2 million for single-family dwellings.

A significant percentage of the recreational, cultural and sporting attractions in Colorado are within one to three hours drive time from Broomfield.  The Denver area offers a wide variety of theatres, museums, venues for dance and musical performance plus five professional athletic teams and easy access to college and university sporting and cultural events.  The City and County of Broomfield recently completed development of a 6,000-seat event center located on U.S. 36 at Wadsworth Parkway.  The Broomfield Event Center is home to the Rocky Mountain Rage Central Hockey League team and the Colorado 14ers NBA Developmental League basketball team and is host to many other sporting and entertainment events.

Broomfield is extremely fortunate in having two four-star hotels in the Omni Interlocken Resort and Renaissance Boulder Suites at FlatIron Hotel.  The Omni has 392 rooms with 40,000 square feet of meeting and convention space.  The Renaissance has 232 rooms and 6,000 square feet of meeting room space.  Broomfield has a third major hotel in the Marriott Towne Place Suites containing 120 rooms.  Currently, there are plans in process before the Broomfield City Council for the addition of up to eight additional hotels, including a W aLoft facility that will contain 140 rooms to be built near the Broomfield Event Center with construction to be completed in the summer of 2008.

Broomfield, with its 1,500,000 square foot FlatIron Crossing Regional Mall, plus more than another 1,000,000 square feet of adjacent retail space, provides residents with a vast array of shopping opportunities on the local level plus easy access to downtown Denver’s shopping and sporting events.  Skiing, hiking, biking, camping, rafting and a wide variety of other outdoor recreational activities are enjoyed by Broomfield residents.

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