Lakewood, Colorado

This is a list of some notable people who have lived in the City of Lakewood, Colorado, United States.

Belmar is a shopping mall in Lakewood, Colorado that opened in 2004 as a redevelopment of the Villa Italia Mall. It is owned by Starwood Capital and managed by Jones Lang LaSalle. There are over 80 stores including Best Buy, DSW, Target, Century Theatres and Sola Salons.

The Lakewood Cultural Center is a regional theatre and arts venue located in Lakewood, Colorado. The space is 38,000 square feet (3,500 m2) and opened in Fall 2000. It includes a 320-seat auditorium, community room, gallery/exhibit space, classrooms and lobby space. It is designed for art and cultural programming and general community use. The Cultural Center offers special engagements, nationally & internationally recognized artists presented by the City of Lakewood to perform or exhibit at the Cultural Center, and community presentations, performances or exhibits featuring work by local artists, schools and performing arts organizations.

The Laboratory of Art and Ideas at Belmar was a contemporary art institution located in Lakewood, a suburb on the western boundary of Denver, Colorado. Founded by Executive Director Adam Lerner, The Lab at Belmar was a 104-acre (0.42 km2) mixed-use residential and commercial urban neighborhood located in Lakewood. Operating in a storefront in Belmar since May 2004, The Lab opened in a dedicated space at Belmar in fall 2006. In March 2009 The Lab merged with MCA Denver (Museum of Contemporary Art Denver), and Adam Lerner became Director of MCA Denver. In May 2009 the Belmar location was closed and its programming was integrated into MCA Denver.

The Colorado Media School is a private, for-profit college located in Lakewood, Colorado. It is an affiliate campus of the Ohio Center for Broadcasting. The Colorado Media School first opened in Colorado in 2001. It is currently located in the Belmair shopping district in Lakewood, Colorado. The college offers a certificate program that is designed to take 36 weeks to complete. The Tuition and Fees in 2015 cost $16,465 and 88% of program graduates took out loans.

Alameda International Junior/Senior High School is located at 1255 S. Wadsworth Boulevard in Lakewood, Colorado, United States.It is one of 158 schools in the Jefferson County Public School system, and is a combination junior high and senior high school, containing grades 7-12. The school's colors are blue and white, and its mascot is a Pirate. The school had a rich basketball history before open enrollment. With the original basketball court and baseball field being one of the older ones in the state. The mission statement of the school is: "Alameda International delivers a challenging, international education in which students act to create a better and more peaceful world through inquiry, intercultural understanding, and respect." The 2015-2016 school year was the first year that Alameda functioned as a junior/senior high school. Jefferson County previously converted O'Connell Middle School into an elementary school, and moved its 7th and 8th graders to Alameda.

Colorado Christian University (CCU) is a private Christian university in Lakewood, Colorado. CCU was founded by Clifton Fowler in 1914 as the Denver Bible Institute.

The Colorado Christian University Event Center is the home arena of the Colorado Christian Cougars, who play basketball in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. In addition to university activities, the Event Center has served as the home arena for the American Basketball Association Colorado Storm in 2004 and the International Basketball League Colorado Crossover in 2006-2007.

Un Corrido Para la Gente (English: A Ballad for the People) is a sculpture by Carlos Frésquez, installed in Denver, Colorado, U.S.

Lakewood–Wadsworth (sometimes stylized as Lakewood•Wadsworth) is an elevated light rail station on the W Line of the RTD Rail system. It is located alongside West 13th Avenue on a bridge over Wadsworth Boulevard, in Lakewood, Colorado, after which the station is named.The station opened on April 26, 2013, on the West Corridor, built as part of the Regional Transportation District (RTD) FasTracks public transportation expansion plan and voter-approved sales tax increase for the Denver metropolitan area.The station has a 1,000 space park and ride garage and bus stops served by RTD Bus routes.

Lakewood High School is a public primary school located in Lakewood, Colorado, United States. It is part of Jefferson County Public Schools. Lakewood was ranked as the 111th best school in the nation by Newsweek in 2006, and as the 108th in 2008.

Lamar is an at-grade light rail station on the W Line of the RTD Rail system. It is located near the intersection of West 13th Avenue and Lamar Street, after which the station is named, in Lakewood, Colorado. The station is located within Lakewood's 40 West Arts District, not far from the businesses on West Colfax Avenue and about 0.7 miles (1.1 km) from the campus of the Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. The station opened on April 26, 2013, on the West Corridor, built as part of the Regional Transportation District (RTD) FasTracks public transportation expansion plan and voter-approved sales tax increase for the Denver metropolitan area.The area around Lamar station has seen transit-oriented development, including three joint housing and retail buildings.