Today, the rare single-family home for sale can command over $1.5m and be off the market within a week. Now a member of Prospect’s social committee, Louden has helped to plan events like a Thanksgiving turkey trot or pandemic-era “random acts of kindness” bingo, which saw neighbors leaving cookies on others’ doorsteps to help them feel less isolated. She quickly found friends, joining a running group and partaking in the open houses. “I love that we have a walking neighborhood,” says Jen Louden, a writer who moved there from Seattle seven years ago. It’s the kind of place you hear doesn’t exist any more. The residents know each other by first name and often held Friday night open houses in the pre-pandemic era, inviting neighbors to mingle in their homes. Prospect became an exclusive address because it offered something rare: relative safety and a sense of community. It’s just a tragedy that it became so expensive.” “When people began seeing how, frankly, wonderful it was, and how different and beautiful it was, they bid up the price of the real estate. It ought to be moderately affordable,” says Marcia Martin, the Longmont city council member representing the ward. “The streets are narrower, the lots are smaller.
In the years since, Prospect’s housing prices have boomed. In 2002, Dwell Magazine designated Prospect ‘America’s coolest neighborhood’ due to its architectural distinction.
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