Hale

Pricing trends

Hale prices alongside Montclair and Mayfair and below Hilltop and Congress Park, with renovated Tudors and the 9th and Colorado townhomes at the top and original 1950s ranches offering the entry points. The Denver table below carries the citywide numbers.

Citywide figures for Denver. Source: Local Market Update, August 2026, REcolorado data compiled by the Colorado Association of REALTORS®. Neighborhood-level figures vary; ask me for comparables on any specific home. See all area tables.

About Hale

Hale is the neighborhood east of Colorado Boulevard between Colfax and 6th Avenue, named for the former Hale Hospital and defined today by Rose Medical Center, the National Jewish Health campus on its Colfax edge and the 9th and Colorado development on the site of the old university hospital. Its blocks of Tudors, bungalows and ranches are quieter than that list suggests, and its location between Cherry Creek and City Park is hard to beat.

Location

Hale runs from Colorado Boulevard east to Holly Street and from Colfax Avenue south to 6th Avenue, with Congress Park west across Colorado Boulevard, Montclair and Mayfair east, Hilltop south across 6th Avenue and City Park and Park Hill north across Colfax. Cherry Creek North is a mile south.

History and background

Hale was farmland and the eastern edge of Denver until the 1920s, when the city's growth along Colfax and 8th Avenue reached Colorado Boulevard. The neighborhood is named for the Hale Hospital, a 1920s medical facility, and medicine has shaped it ever since: National Jewish Hospital opened on Colfax in 1899 to treat tuberculosis, Rose Medical Center opened in 1949 as a memorial to General Maurice Rose, and the University of Colorado's medical school and hospital occupied the 9th and Colorado site from 1925 until 2008.

The houses came in two waves, the Tudors and bungalows of the 1920s and 1930s near Colorado Boulevard and the ranches and Cape Cods of the 1940s and 1950s farther east, as the neighborhood filled in toward Montclair and the Lowry air base.

When the university's medical campus moved to the former Fitzsimons base in Aurora, its Hale site sat empty for years before the 9th and Colorado redevelopment broke ground in 2015. The district of shops, restaurants, a theater and new homes that replaced the hospital towers gave the neighborhood a center it had never had.

Housing and architecture

The streets hold 1920s and 1930s Tudors and brick bungalows nearer Colorado Boulevard and 1940s and 1950s ranches and Cape Cods toward Holly, with brick apartment buildings along Colfax and 8th Avenue. The 9th and Colorado redevelopment added new townhomes, condominiums and apartments on its 26 acres, and pop-tops and rebuilds have spread through the single-family blocks since the 2010s.

Parks and recreation

Lindsley Park, with its playground and tennis courts, is the neighborhood's own green, and City Park, the Botanic Gardens and Congress Park are each within a mile. The 9th and Colorado development has a central plaza used for events, and the Cherry Creek Trail is reachable at Colorado Boulevard.

Dining, shopping and daily life

The 9th and Colorado district holds a King Soopers, restaurants, a theater, a fitness club and the Hale Parkway shops, with Colfax adding the Bluebird Theater, diners and the Tattered Cover. Rose Medical Center and National Jewish Health employ thousands within the neighborhood, and Cherry Creek North's shops and dining are a short drive south.