What&#x27;s Being Built in Douglas County

Roads

The northbound I-25 on- and off-ramps at Crystal Valley Parkway are now open (July 2026). The southbound ramps remain under construction, with full completion on track for 2027. It unlocks the Dawson Trails development to the west.

Source: crgov.com/CVI

Dawson Trails (Costco, King Soopers, Gold Crown & more)

Big-Ticket

The west-side master-planned community, anchored by a Costco (targeting 2027 with the interchange), a King Soopers, a HealthONE medical campus, a Gold Crown indoor court fieldhouse, and homes (Taylor Morrison took 256 lots as the first builder).

Findlay Toyota Castle Rock

Source: Findlay Automotive

Retail

Findlay Automotive's first Colorado dealership is rising on a ~27-acre site near Crystal Valley Parkway and Plum Creek Boulevard.

AdventHealth Crystal Valley ER & Medical Offices

Healthcare

A freestanding ER, urgent care, and medical office building at Crystal Valley Parkway and Plum Creek Boulevard; completion expected fall 2026.

Source: AdventHealth

The Brickyard + Castle Rock Sports Center

Big-Ticket

A ~145,000 sq ft indoor sports center broke ground late 2025 (summer 2027 target), anchoring the Brickyard mixed-use district — which also includes a 298-unit apartment project (Phase 1 summer 2027), a planned hotel, and ~500 homes.

Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar

Retail

The California chain's first Colorado location, coming to the Promenade at 5949 Alpine Vista Circle (listed as coming soon on Lazy Dog's own site).

Source: Lazy Dog

Outlets at Castle Rock — new retailers

Source: Outlets at Castle Rock

Retail

The outlet mall keeps adding brands: outdoor label Stio and OFFLINE by Aerie are among the latest to open, continuing a steady stream of new tenants.

Chicken Salad Chick — The Meadows

Retail

The Southern fast-casual chain is under construction in The Meadows, near the movie theater and across from the hospitals.

Crowfoot Valley Road Widening

Roads

Castle Rock and Douglas County are widening Crowfoot Valley Road to four lanes; construction began May 2025 and is expected to finish by the end of summer 2026.

Fire Station 156

Civic

A $22 million, 26,000 sq ft fire station and centralized logistics hub on Castle Oaks Drive in northeast Castle Rock, opening summer 2027.

The Meadows Medical Offices

Healthcare

Rezoning approved for a medical office building at Meadows Boulevard and Prairie Hawk Drive.

Industrial Tributary Trail

Civic

A ~$7.5M east-west trail connecting downtown to Philip S. Miller Park, the Sports Center, and the Brickyard; final design approved April 2026.

The View at Castle Rock

Housing

A six-story downtown redevelopment at Sixth and Jerry streets with 221 apartments plus office and retail; completed late 2025 and now leasing.

Bridgewater (Senior Housing)

Now Open

Housing

A newly built, 142-unit senior housing community that sat vacant before new ownership began leasing it at the start of 2026.

Chateau Valley

Proposed

Housing

A proposed rezoning for about 474 single-family homes plus ~60,000 sq ft of commercial near downtown; still in Town review and drawing traffic/habitat pushback.

Recently opened: Starbird, Bar Hummingbird, The Brinkerhoff & Homegrown Tap & Dough

Retail

Castle Rock keeps filling in: Starbird Chicken and the upscale Bar Hummingbird and The Brinkerhoff at the Promenade, plus Gastamo Group's Homegrown Tap & Dough brewpub downtown (opened Dec 2025).

Lone Tree & RidgeGate

RidgeGate east of I-25 is the single biggest buildout in the county — 25 years of planning now accelerating into grocery, schools, civic buildings, parks, senior living, and thousands of homes — while Park Meadows keeps adding big-name retail.

Lone Tree Village / King Soopers Marketplace

Retail

A ~158,000 sq ft center anchored by a 123,000 sq ft King Soopers Marketplace with fuel, along RidgeGate Parkway near High Note Avenue. Groundbreaking was April 2026; opening 2027.

Park Meadows — Rivian & new stores

Retail

The region's largest mall (turning 30 in Aug 2026) is adding a Rivian showroom, Faherty, Columbia, and Angry Pizza, all announced as opening soon by the City of Lone Tree.

Dutch Bros Coffee — Park Meadows

Retail

The chain's third Douglas County location; the City approved a drive-thru site plan in June 2026 for a spot near Park Meadows Drive, just north of Kohl's.

DCSD Elementary School #50

Schools

An ~84,000 sq ft Pre-K–6 school in RidgeGate's Lyric neighborhood, opening Fall 2027 with a 750-student capacity.

High Note Regional Park

Parks

An 80-acre regional park in the Lyric neighborhood; Phase 1 (lit fields, playground, dog park, a 200-seat beer garden, food-truck area, new Happy Canyon Trail) broke ground April 2026, opening ~2027.

Lone Tree Justice Center & Public Works

Civic

A new Justice Center (Police Department + Municipal Court) and a 29,480 sq ft Public Works facility in RidgeGate, both in the city's active-construction pipeline.

I-25 Lone Tree Mobility Hub (Lincoln Ave ramps)

Roads

A ~$16.5M CDOT project building new slip ramps on I-25 near Lincoln Avenue plus a pedestrian bridge over the interstate; underway through 2026.

Source: CDOT

The Reserve at Lone Tree (Senior Living)

Housing

A nine-story luxury independent/assisted-living and memory-care building at 11010 High Note Avenue in RidgeGate, recently completed and now leasing.

Source: The Reserve

Forte at RidgeGate (Senior Apartments)

Housing

A 101-unit affordable 55+ rental community from Koelbel and Company in RidgeGate's Couplet District, next to the Onyx and Rhapsody neighborhoods; opened 2026 — the developer's second affordable community in Lone Tree after Talus.

Lyric, Rhapsody & Onyx (RidgeGate Homes)

Housing

The residential buildout east of I-25. Shea Homes' Lyric neighborhood is planned for roughly 1,900 homes at full buildout (about 350 sold so far) — a mix of condos, townhomes, rowhomes, and single-family, with Lokal, Thrive, and Infinity also building — alongside the Rhapsody and Onyx projects.

Source: Live Lyric

Hawkview at Willow Creek

Housing

274 for-sale townhomes and paired homes (Lokal) proposed north of Park Meadows Drive.

The Groove Café & The Capital Grille

Retail

Two recent dining opens: The Groove Café at Lyric at RidgeGate, and The Capital Grille (Darden steakhouse) in the former Red Lobster near Park Meadows.

Parker

Downtown Parker's Mainstreet keeps adding restaurants and apartments, AdventHealth is expanding its hospital campus, and the county's biggest data center and a growing aerospace/industrial cluster are rising on the Compark side.

Flexential Data Center

Big-Ticket

A $192 million, ~249,000 sq ft data center on 17 acres at 15255 Compark Blvd, powered by CORE Electric — among the largest in Colorado, expected operational around January 2027.

Source: Flexential

AdventHealth Parker Expansion

Healthcare

A $300 million, seven-story, 186,000 sq ft patient tower on the Parker hospital campus (first patients ~Feb 2027). AdventHealth also bought 44 acres nearby (Crown Crest Blvd and E. Pine Lane) in May 2026 for future services.

Source: AdventHealth

Safran Defense & Space

Big-Ticket

French aerospace/defense firm Safran chose Parker for a facility producing electric-propulsion thrusters and satellite integration — part of a DougCo aerospace cluster now topping 27,000 jobs.

Sodern America (U.S. Headquarters)

Source: Douglas County News-Press

Big-Ticket

French aerospace firm Sodern chose Douglas County for its first U.S. headquarters — building star trackers and space sensors, adding about 20 jobs; announced February 2026 by the Governor and the state economic-development office.

Titan Development — Compark470 Industrial

Source: Denver Business Journal

Big-Ticket

A two-building, ~133,000 sq ft industrial project near Compark Boulevard and Chambers Road; broke ground in 2026.

The Juniper / East Main (Mainstreet)

Housing

Confluence Companies' ~264-unit mixed-use apartment community on the east end of Mainstreet with ground-floor dining — anchoring the "My Mainstreet" redevelopment. Tenants include Marvin's Place (open), Cask & Trotter (Aug 2026), and Cerebral Brewing (2027).

MeadowRock (Toll Brothers)

Housing

118 luxury single-family homesites on 282 acres near Parker (Hilltop & Singing Hills roads), with plans from ~$1.4M; site work underway.

Source: The Real Deal

Legacy at Kime Ranch (Century Communities)

Source: Century Communities

Housing

A new single-family community of roughly 150+ homes on ~45 acres near Mainstreet (between Parker Vista and Sunset Ridge), with a 3.6-acre park; debuted spring 2026.

Cerebral Brewing — Downtown Parker

Retail

Denver-based Cerebral Brewing's fourth taproom, a 4,200 sq ft space with a patio in the East Main development at 20117 E. Mainstreet, opening summer 2027.

Emagine Parker

Retail

Emagine Entertainment's first Colorado theater — the reimagined former AMC Twenty Mile 10 at 18625 Stage Run: 10 auditoriums, two EMX screens, heated recliners, a full bar. Opened July 1, 2026.

Parker Pointe / Allison Ranch

Retail

A commercial development on the SE corner of Parker Road and Stroh Road; Black Rock Coffee is the first tenant open, with pads still to fill.

Salisbury Regional Park — Phase 2

Parks

A ~$28M expansion adding ballfields, multi-use fields, lighted pickleball and tennis courts, an inclusive playground and splash pad, a bike park, and a community hub.

High Plains Trail (Complete)

Source: Parker Parks & Rec

Trails

A long-planned regional trail through the E-470 corridor is now complete, filling the last connectivity gap in the southeast metro; the Town held a ribbon-cutting in May 2026. A multi-agency project (Parker, Douglas County, Aurora, Centennial, Arapahoe County, CDOT, E-470, DRCOG, and GOCO).

Salady (Korean Salad Chain)

Retail

South Korea's largest salad franchise is coming to 9700 S. Parker Rd in the Parker Gateway Marketplace.

Highlands Ranch

Highlands Ranch is largely built out, so the action is hospitals, senior housing, parks, and roads rather than new subdivisions.

UCHealth Highlands Ranch Hospital Expansion

Healthcare

A five-story, 340,000 sq ft addition (completed June 2026) with a new cancer center, expanded stroke and cardiac programs, and added ED beds.

Source: ColoradoBiz

Shea Senior Affordable Apartments (Plaza Drive)

Housing

A 165-unit, income-restricted 55+ apartment building on Plaza Drive (60% AMI) with an on-site park; construction expected to start late 2026, leasing 2028.

Source: Denver Gazette

Wildcat Regional Park & Trails

Parks

The county transferred 202 acres in northeast Highlands Ranch to HRCA with $3.5M to build a new multi-use trail system and regional park.

Highlands Ranch Parkway Reconstruction

Roads

The county is reconstructing aging concrete on Highlands Ranch Parkway between Broadway and Burntwood, weekdays through September 2026.

County Line Road Widening (University to Broadway)

Roads

A county road-widening and reconstruction project along the Highlands Ranch / Centennial line, active in 2026.

Castle Pines & Sterling Ranch

A landmark athletic club is rising off I-25, the city courts its first real commercial core, and the county's largest master plan keeps growing next door.

Life Time Castle Pines

Source: City of Castle Pines

Big-Ticket

A two-story, 102,000+ sq ft Life Time athletic country club east of I-25 near Castle Pines Parkway and Canyonside Boulevard; opening late 2026 / early 2027.

Sterling Ranch (ongoing buildout)

Source: Douglas County News-Press

Housing

Colorado's largest DougCo master plan — 3,019 homes sold as of early 2026, growing toward a newly approved cap of 16,050 units (up from 12,050) across nine villages, including the new Parkvale neighborhood.

Zebulon Regional Sports Complex

Big-Ticket

A 46.5-acre regional ice, baseball, and indoor sports complex in Sterling Ranch; commissioners approved contracts and financing March 31, 2026, with site work underway and vertical construction expected to follow.

Source: City of Castle Pines

Lagae Road Commercial Corridor

Study

Retail

Castle Pines is running an economic-development plan and resident survey to recruit restaurants, entertainment, and retail to the Lagae Road corridor — planning stage, no tenants confirmed.

Countywide & Big-Ticket

The projects that reshape the whole county — power, public safety, and free transit.

Douglas County Helitack Hangar

Civic

A $4.2 million dedicated hangar for the county's wildfire-fighting helicopter (near Sterling Ranch), replacing salt-shed storage; groundbreaking ~fall 2026, open spring 2027.

Source: Denver Gazette

Link On Demand (Free Rideshare)

Source: Douglas County work session (6/30)

Roads

Douglas County's free on-demand rideshare service is rolling out across Castle Rock, Parker, Lone Tree, and Highlands Ranch.

What's Being Discussed

The big proposals, studies, and land-use decisions shaping the county's next decade — not buildings yet, but the calls that determine what gets built.

Small Modular Reactor (Nuclear) Feasibility

Study

Energy

Douglas County is researching — not approving — whether it could host a Small Modular Reactor or microreactor, driven by data-center power demand. Staff recommended waiting for finalized federal (NRC) rules, so this is exploratory, with no decisions made and no site chosen.

Sterling Ranch — 15th Amendment (12,050 → 16,050 homes)