Current wisdom says only the most affordable homes are selling this year…but that’s NOT the story in Arvada, where residents not only are getting sales on their older places, but are reaching to surround themselves with the city’s newest parks and trails, further west. “Our buyers are selling at $300,000 to $400,000; that’s a strong price point in Arvada now,” says D.R. Horton’s Scott Herring.
D.R. Horton sold 29 new ranch and 2-story homes at west Arvada’s Spring Mesa last year, more than in 2008, and has five more since New Years. All are wrapped by parks that would wow buyers in any part of Denver…160 acres of community open space, a lake tucked into the neighborhood, and up the trail, Arvada Reservoir, where you can hike, fish, even troll (electric craft). Ralston Creek Trail (endless bike routes to city or foothills), Leyden Open Space, and two more city parks are all bordering the community.
Meanwhile, there are views that even to Arvadans, look great. You can imagine the nighttime panorama from D.R.’s ranch model, just west of Quaker at W. 76th Drive, in clear site of downtown skyscrapers. Herring has the coffee on today…and will show you homes and lots (the smallest is 1/4-acre and some range to a half) that are outselling all three competing west Arvada builders combined.
Despite the big lots, Herring says, D.R. delivers a price-per-foot hard to match…as you’ll see in a ‘Broadmoor’ 2-story model, centered around $580,000, at a per/foot around $150…including an extended master with sitting area, hardwood floor package, 4-car garage, and D.R.’s trademark ‘7-diamond kitchen’–a 36-inch gas cooktop, double oven, slab granite, tile backsplashes, cabinets with upper and lower crowns, built-in wine cooler, GE Profile 42-inch fridge…and fancy self-closing drawers with glides.
You’ll also tour a spectacular ranch (D.R. offers five ranches)…and see a handful of homes that could deliver in time for the tax credit (contract deadline, April 30). Although most buyers are from Arvada and Wheat Ridge, this is also luring out-of-staters, some coming for renewable energy jobs in Golden and Boulder. (D.R. provides them a wiring conduit for solar PV…and you’ll see how many families have already added solar panels when you drive through.)
What you can’t have, Herring adds, is forever to check this out. D.R. Horton’s closed 173 Spring Mesa homes and has 70 to go…just west of Quaker on 76th; take 64th west to Quaker, then north 1.5 mile to 76th.
If you go…
WHERE:
Spring Mesa by D.R. Horton, 3-to-5 bed homes on ¼-to-½-acre sites; 5 ranch plans plus others, 3-car garage; coffee/cookies today. 7575 Russell Ct. Arvada; take W. 64th west from Ward Road, past Indiana, 1 mi. to Quaker, right, north 1.5 mile to W. 76th Dr., left.
PRICE:
From mid-$400s
WHEN:
Today 11 a.m. until 5 p.m.
PHONE:
303-424-0728
