About Lakewood, Colorado The City of Lakewood, a major Denver Metropolitan suburb founded in 1969, is just over 44 square miles and roughly bounded by state highway C-470 to the west, 26th Avenue to the north, Sheridan Boulevard to the east, and Hampden Avenue to the south. Sharing its borders with the cities of Denver, Littleton, Golden, Wheat Ridge, Morrison and Edgewater, Lakewood is Colorado’s fourth largest city and has a population of just over 144,000 residents (Census 2000). Lakewood has grown up around 1950s housing stock and inherited many of its public facilities from special districts that pre-date the City’s incorporation. Rapid growth and development in the 1990s filled much of the City’s available land and has helped to create an increasingly diverse community, particularly along the border with Denver. Lakewood is presently undergoing a renaissance of sorts: the award-winning Belmar District development has helped to shape a new downtown core, a new light-rail extension will soon run along West 13th Avenue, and significant efforts are being made to update and replace aged public facilities. In the near future Lakewood will become home to a major hospital facility and is working to revitalize its older neighborhoods. Please
visit our City website, www.Lakewood.org.
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