Triplets trump entrepreneur
For tech entrepreneur Brian Levin, making millions wasn’t as challenging as his wife having triplets.
“After selling my business in Seattle, I realized that technology is easy and raising children is hard,” Levin said. So the George Washington High School graduate moved his family back to Denver to be closer to kin.
Levin and his wife, Allison, recently paid $2.4 million for a Cherry Hills Village home owned by David D. Mandarich, president of MDC Holdings Inc., a large Denver homebuilder.
The neighborhood, with its high-quality schools, and the layout of the main home, which tops 3,000 square feet, were attractive, Levin said. It also helped that his parents were only a few miles away.
Levin co-founded Mobliss, a wireless media and marketing company best known for using text messaging to promote “American Idol.” That campaign is credited with popularizing text messaging in the U.S. In a previous job, Levin used his marketing skills to help make Grey Goose Vodka a household brand.
Index Group, a Japanese company, purchased Mobliss for more than $15 million in early 2004. Levin stayed on before deciding to return to Denver. He is planning his next venture, to be based in Denver.
Coach finds comfort at club
The traveling lifestyle of a Denver Nuggets head coach may be what prompted George Karl to buy a villa home on the grounds of Cherry Creek Country Club (at the site of the former Los Verdes Golf Course).
Karl recently paid $1.5 million for a three-bedroom single-family home in the development, which features an 18-hole Jack Nicklaus-designed golf course, full spa, fitness center and dining room.
“You can order dinner from the country club dining room, and they’ll bring it right to his door,” said Casey Connelly, real estate sales and community manager for Vintage Marketing, which is marketing the development. “The villa homes are the community within the country club that are really a second home for people who are only here for part of the year,”
Karl’s home backs up to a multimillion-dollar water feature – a babbling brook with numerous waterfalls, including one that’s 20 feet high.
The project is tucked between Denver and Aurora in an area known to planners as the “Four Square Mile” parcel.
Avalanche player skates in
In with the new hockey player, out with the old.
That’s the story of a five-bedroom home in the Cherry Hills Rancho neighborhood in Arapahoe County.
Pierre Turgeon, a 19-year National Hockey League veteran in his first year as a center for the Colorado Avalanche, recently paid $2.8 million for the two-story, single-family home.
Another Av, defense man Derek Morris, who was traded to Phoenix in 2004, paid $2.45 million for the property the year before his departure.
The 1-acre acre property features three fireplaces, a Jacuzzi and a tennis court. It also offers a terrace, a finished basement and an attached garage, according to public records.
