Design Workshop, a Denver landscape-architecture and land-planning firm, has been honored by the Colorado chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects for its environmentally friendly golf- course design at the Glacier Club.
The course, 18 miles north of Durango, was previously known as the Cliffs at Tamarron. Design Workshop was hired to redesign the existing 18-hole golf course and add a nine-hole course and a clubhouse – a $7.7 million project.
In redesigning the mountainous course, Design Workshop said it used the existing topography to enhance the strategy, while creating 12 acres of wetlands and an innovative stormwater-management system.
“It was a very challenging site,” principal Todd Schoeder said.
Glacier Development Corp. redeveloped the private course, which opened in the summer of 2004, along with an adjacent resort village.
The resort village will feature about 170 luxury town homes and 170 custom home sites at build-out.
Of the 24 townhomes completed, 17 have been sold. Prices range from $600,000 to $2.2 million. The homesites are priced from $235,000 to $900,000.
“Sales have been going very well,” said Jim Goodman, director of sales and marketing for the Glacier Club. “We’ve tripled our volume this year.”
Other Design Workshop projects include the Maroon Creek golf course in Aspen and the Commons neighborhood in downtown Denver.
It also is working with Cherokee Denver LLC on the former Gates Rubber plant redevelopment.
Staff writer Julie Dunn can be reached at 303-954-1592 or jdunn@denverpost.com.
