Real Estate in Greeley, CO.
Greeley Colorado is a vibrant and expanding city located an hour north of Denver and thirty minutes from the Front Range of the majestic Rocky Mountains. Greeley is the largest city in Weld County and has a population 76,930 residents. Greeley has received the Tree City USA designation by the National Arbor Day Foundation for the past 19 years and prides itself for having 580 acres ofabounding green parkland for residents to enjoy.
Greeley began as the “Union Colony” in 1869 as an experimental ideal community of “high moral standards” by Nathan C. Meeker, a newspaper reporter from New York. Meeker chose a site at the union of the Cache la Poudre and South Platte Rivers halfway between Cheyenne and Denver along the tracks of the Denver & Pacific Railroad. The name Union Colony was later changed to Greeley in honor of Horace Greeley who was Meeker’s editor at the New York Tribune.
Today Greeley is a center of activity and education. Cattle and crops have been thepropelling forces behind the economy since the 1870s. Though as the home of University of Northern Colorado, Greeley’s college students have been the cornerstones to the thriving environment. For new businesses, Greeley offers an excellent , affordable, regional labor pool; well developed commercial/industrial sites with ready access; and a local business climate that is conducive to additional economic growth. Industries such as mining, construction, manufacturing, finance, insurance, retail and wholesale have all found the area rich with opportunity. The median household income is $36,414.
Throughout Weld County, the dynamic backgrounds of the residents are reflected in their home choices. From tasteful mansions to country farmhouses, simple starter homes to apartment complexes, there is a wealth of interesting living space here. Even though the surrounding landscape is semi-arid, neighborhoods are green due to the foresight of the pioneers who built a sophisticated arrangement of reservoirs and irrigation ditches to store and deliver water to the plains. Greeley has a wealth of water under its control, enough to sustain population growth far into the future. Housing is affordable here with the median price for a single-family home being $157,950.
