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Englewood is a smaller, suburb community south of Denver with a population of 30,255 (2010 Census).
The city’s logistical location in the Denver Metropolitan area makes it a desirable place with convenient access to downtown Denver via the rail line, and multiple roadway alternatives (Santa Fe, I-25, US-285) for residents, businesspeople, and visitors.
Englewood is known for its eclectic array of businesses and its focus on the arts. The community also has excellent recreational resources, from bike paths to neighborhood parks to award-winning recreation facilities.
The City went through a great period of change in the 1950s taking advantage of the Platte River, and creating the McLellan Reservoir. It gave the City its independence of water rights from the powerful Denver Water, and soon began to provide water to most of the south metro area.
By the 1960s, the City saw the largest mall (Cinderella City) west of the Mississippi River and one of the largest in the world when it opened in 1968. The developer provided the funds to create a vast city park network to replace the single City Park that the mall was built on. Thirty years later, the city demolished the defunct mall in order to make way for a new, transit-oriented development that would also contain a new Civic Center, library, and the relocated city hall. The RTD completed its southwest light rail corridor in 2000, and established passenger rail transit in Englewood.
In 2004 Englewood opened the Pirates Cove water park as part of a multimillion-dollar improvement package for the city parks system. In addition to Pirates Cove many improvements were made to the South Platte River trail system and to the Englewood Recreation Center, originally constructed in 1975.
Englewood is a full-service city with its own, independent park, library, and public works systems. Englewood provides snowplow service to neighboring municipalities and water to a large portion of the metro area.