Cherry Creek Retirement Village

Cherry Creek Retirement Village is an independent living and assisted living community at 14555 East Hampden Avenue in southeast Aurora, Colorado, home to 217 apartments in a single landscaped building. Operated by Century Park Associates, it has anchored this part of Aurora since 1989, with the large majority of its residences given to independent living and a smaller assisted-living wing for residents who need daily help.

The assisted-living team helps with the everyday tasks that get harder over time, including bathing, dressing, grooming, mobility, and medication management, building a personalized plan around each resident and keeping staff and an emergency response system available around the clock. Independent residents keep their own routines while weekly housekeeping, maintenance, and scheduled transportation are handled for them.

Because the community does not offer memory care or skilled nursing, it suits older adults who are largely independent or need light-to-moderate assistance rather than secured dementia care. Daily life leans social and active, with three chef-prepared meals served restaurant-style each day and two entrees to choose from, and residents move between a library, a fitness center with yoga and chair-yoga classes, a billiards lounge, an arts and crafts studio, a beauty salon and barber shop, and a light-filled atrium with a piano.

A landscaped courtyard with raised garden beds gives residents a place to plant and sit outdoors, and a calendar of bingo, live music, clubs, and group outings keeps the week full. Cherry Creek's scale and setting set it apart in Aurora: with roughly 187 independent-living apartments, it is far more independence-weighted than the assisted-living-first communities nearby, offering studio, one-bedroom, and two-bedroom floor plans with kitchenettes and, in larger units, walk-in closets and balconies.

It sits directly across from Meadow Hills Golf Course and minutes from Cherry Creek State Park, a green, recreation-rich pocket of the metro, and it welcomes cats and dogs. The community is just off East Hampden Avenue along the U.S. 285 corridor, with quick access to Interstate 225 and its light-rail line. The Medical Center of Aurora, a Level II trauma center, is about nine minutes away, and Town Center at Aurora and its surrounding shops and restaurants are a short drive north.

The surrounding neighborhood is established and suburban, with single-family homes, trails, and the state park close at hand; despite the name, the community sits by Cherry Creek State Park, not Denver's Cherry Creek shopping district. Managed by Century Park Associates, which runs senior-living communities in 19 states, Cherry Creek Retirement Village pairs a deep independent-living base with an assisted-living option and a long local track record, making it a fit for Aurora families who want room to stay independent with support available when it is needed.