Windsor CO Real Estate

Windsor, Colorado lies on high ground in Weld County, approximately halfway between Fort Collins and Greeley on the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) and close to the midpoint of a triangle formed by those two cities and Loveland, Colorado. Within the last twenty years its centralized location, coupled with its proximity to I-25, have propelled a rapid rate of urban growth; particularly on the town’s western edge as it grows towards the highway. The town’s main business district runs east to west along Highway 392, which also serves as Windsor’s Main Street. The older two-story commercial structures date back to the Victorian era of the late 19th century.

Interested in buying a home in the area? According to Windsor CO real estate data, for the week ending July 28, 2010, the average listing price for a Windsor home was approximately $368,200. The median sales price of a home during that same period according to Windsor Colorado real estate figures was almost $253,000, with $152 being the average price per square foot.

During the last two decades, Windsor’s population has grown by almost 95% and today that figure stands at 18,000. The area has much to offer to lovers of the outdoors. Windsor Lake is a small but very popular spot for fishing. Within the last ten years, a section of the lake’s perimeter has been transformed into a bicycle path. The Windsor Parks and Recreation Department provides recreational and cultural services, programs, and special events. These include youth and adult athletics, instructional programs, drop-in activities, fitness classes, and group excursions.

Settled during the 1870s as a rich wheat-farming district, Windsor owes much of its early development to two important forces; irrigation techniques, which increased crop variety, and the advent of the railroad, which made distant markets available. Named for the Reverend Samuel Asa Windsor, the town was incorporated in 1890. Tariffs on foreign sugar at the dawn of the last century created a market for new sources of sugar, and by 1903, sugar beet manufacture took hold of the region culminating in the construction of a factory built in the town of Windsor.

Hard-working German and Russian immigrants, attracted by the promise of wealth settled in the area and achieved great financial success within one generation via beet-producing farms. The beet-sugar economy sustained the area until the mid 1960s when the factory closed down and Kodak moved in and opened a manufacturing plant. Kodak was a great catalyst for economic development well into the 1980s when a can factory and a box company servicing the Budweiser facility in nearby Wellington usurped it.

Windsor CO is an ideal place to live and grow, offering a myriad of amenities to people of all ages. One of its biggest draws are the majestic vistas of Longs Peak and the Front Range mountains that can be had from almost any part of town. Growing rapidly with an eye always directed at the future, Windsor, Colorado is synonymous with open space, freedom and true joie de vivre.