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The area west of the Platte River contains the aforementioned tOvms of Sheridan and Bo~~ar. Sheridan adjoins the city limits of Denver and, although an incorporated city, is a disorganized, undercapitalized area of poor quality and unexciting prospects. Much of this tOvm is substandard resi- dential area interspersed with industrial development. The tOem of Bo,vmar, which lies south of Sheridan, is in actuality a middle-upper- to upper-class bedroom city for Denver COlllmuters. It is characterized by membership in a lake and boating club, and is naturally separated from the poorer area to the north by higher topography. I I I I I I I I I I I I The main economic influences of this general area are the aforementioned Cinderella City Shopping Center; the Centennial Race Track, which lies at Belleview Avenue and Santa Fe Drive and is one of the two parimutuel betting tracks in the metro area; and several industries such as C. A. Norgren Company, psnerican Coleman, Marathon Oil Company Research Center, Minneapolis Hone~,ell Regulator Controls, Metron Instrument, and the Martin-Marietta Company. This last-named company, ,'ihic h is engaged primarily in the missile and space capsule. field, lies south of Littleton about 10 miles, but employs about 5,600 people, a number of which live in Littleton or Englewood. Other, and perhaps more secondary, economic influences are the Denver Technological Center, at Bellevie" and Interstate 25 about four miles east; the Fort Logan Mental Health Center at Oxford and Lowell; the Denver-Rio Grande Railway industrial center at Blakeland about five miles south of Littleton, and the proposed new Gates Rubber plant which will also be about four miles south of Littleton near Santa Fe Drive. The general area offers most city services and has an abundance of schools, churches, general shopping and other a~enitieso In addition, the area is influenced by Loretto Reights College for Women, Mullen Home for Boys, Colorado Academy, Kent School for Girls, and St. Mary's Academyo Neighborhood and Environs of Subject Properties (See map at page 40Go The most singularly important natural feature of the immediate neighborhood of the subject properties is the South Platte River. All of the subject properties, of course, are -3-