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It’s official, Starbucks is coming to Reunion and will have a store located in the Reunion Village at 104th and Tower Road. Shea Homes closed on the land sale to Starbucks, so there’s no backing out now. All you homeowners know what I mean.

Construction is slated to begin in the Spring and the store will be located just north of where Sonic is.

Not only should coffee lovers be thrilled, but everyone should be excited about this because of “The Starbucks Effect”.  Rumor has it that houses within a 1 mile radius of a new Starbucks location increase in value over the first few years the store is open.  I still have yet to find any evidence to back this up, so if you have any please share it with us in the comments.

And for those of you adamant about the Local Coffee Shop vs. Starbucks debate, here’s your chance to vote…

There was quite a bit of interest in the Dog Park Vote we posted a few weeks ago.  While there won’t be a Dog Park built in Reunion, Commerce City Parks & Recreation Department was already working on the idea and has plans for a park near the South East corner of 104th and Havana (just before you pass over Highway 76 if you’re driving west).  Here’s a map. 

Plans for the park are just getting and the Parks & Recreation Department is expected to announce an official opening date sometime in the Spring.  We are optimistic that it will open sometime in 2008 though!

Let us know your thoughts by using the “comments” link below.

After having the site up and running for a couple months, Shea Homes has taken an interest in www.reunion-colorado.com and graciously allowed us to use the Reunion trademark with their permission.  (Note the legal disclaimer at the bottom of our site.)  While we’re not the “official” Reunion Colorado website, we will do our best to help connect the community and to keep everyone up to date on what’s happening.

What does this mean?  This means that the Reunion Welcome Center is going to be keeping us up to date on any happening news, events or other things of interest here in our community.  They’ve also kindly mentioned some “slight” inaccuracies with facts and figures on the site that we’re in the process of updating.  I think we all knew that whole “larger than Highlands Ranch” thing was a joke…I wish I could say we were trying to be funny. 

Key Features of www.reunion-colorado.com:

• Reunion’s List (think of it as Craigslist, but just for Reunion)
• Reunion Colorado Job board!  If you’re an employer (or a home-based business) and wish to post some job listings, you can contact us here and we’ll create you an account.  You’ll be able to manage your own job postings and receive emails with resumes directly from the applicants!
• Reunion Colorado Business Section - This will be an evolving list of businesses in the area, hopefully with detail about each sometime soon!

Again, a big Thank You to Shea Homes, the Reunion Colorado Welcome Center (and Bonnie) for offering to help us out!