As if everything else wasn’t enough–the parks, the shops and dining at Town Center, the ballfields, the easy commute–Lowry has suddenly become a golf community. You can be one of the first to see the newly minted fairways of Common Ground Golf Course by Tom Doak…maybe win a foursome round, and get a free coupon for a bucket of balls on the range, just for visiting any of Lowry’s builders today.
Golf at Lowry isn’t totally new. The Air Force base had its Mira Vista course on this very site…created off the runway after the last bomber took off in 1965. (Views of the mountains and downtown you’ll get from these new fairways owe to the fact that the runway rose in elevation to the east). When Lowry Redevelopment Executive Director Tom Markham and other planners began working with the former base in the early 1990s, it was highly likely that Mira Vista would become a city course, operated by Denver or Aurora. But that’s not how the putt went in.
Out of possible operators that submitted proposals, one stood as a perfect match. The Colorado Golf Association, supporters of public golf and of “growing the game” through kids’ programs, offered up a plan to create a golf “laboratory”…a makeover of the landscape, more water features, better turf and trees…reasonable rates, plus a 9-hole “Kid’s Course” where kids would get priority tee times.
Course Director Gary Davis notes that Doak and all of his designers grew up playing public courses, and loved the idea of a facility designed with minimal snob appeal and lots of emphasis on kids. “Everybody says they want kids to learn golf, but how many courses have time to let kids play?” asked LRA’s Markham as we sat in the clubhouse. “Not even municipal courses can do it.”
Markham, who as a young Air Force officer once played Mira Vista, points out the nice property appreciation that often goes with golf … something that makes Lowry’s neighborhoods (with some of the highest appreciation over the past decade) an even better buy. Start your tour of Common Ground (CGA came up with the name) at any Lowry builder–the more you visit, the better chance to win a foursome. That includes affordable EastPark north of the course’s entryway, with condos/townhomes from the low $100s, single-families from the $300s, patio homes and customs from $400s…and at loft/ luxury models over near Town Center.
WHERE:
Fairway Days at Lowry, celebrating the opening of Common Ground Golf Course; win a foursome (6 being given away), or take a free coupon for a bucket of balls at the range, for visiting any Lowry builder. Take Lowry Blvd east from Quebec; 13 open houses, including at EastPark, 1 mi. east of Quebec near the new golf course; and around Town Center.
PRICE:
From low $100s to $1 million
WHEN:
Today, 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.
PHONE:
303-340-1520
WEB:
CommonGroundGC.com, also Lowry.org
