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When you tour SPIRE today (it has a year-end special – a free parking space and storage area included with the purchase price of any home) you’ll see a $14 million makeover of SPIRE’s downtown streetscape – wide, walkable sidewalks with granite seating and planters, with a dedicated bike lane facing the new dining that’s been lured to the Theater District this year – including Crave Dessert Bar & Lounge, opening in two weeks on SPIRE’s corner at 14th and Champa, and highly acclaimed Row 14 Bistro & Wine Bar.
“It’s an ambassador street, the most significant streetscape project in downtown in 30 years,” Tami Door, president of Downtown Denver Partnership, told Mayor Michael Hancock and a crowd that gathered at DCPA to re-dedicate 14th street Thursday, a block from SPIRE.
“We’re so happy; it looks great,” added Wes Chowen, retired United jetliner captain, who moved into a 24th floor SPIRE suite with a mountain view a year ago. Chowen and wife Diane are already putting the bike-able aspect of SPIRE to work: a former Olympic cyclist, he’s the current leader in a month-long citywide competition for the most trips between B-Cycle stations (600 trips! — there’s a B-Cycle station on 14th in front of SPIRE). This week the couple walked over to see ‘The Ballad of Juan José’ at the Ricketson…and they’re regulars now down at Row 14 (it opened in SPIRE last spring).
“It’s getting to be a real neighborhood,” said Diane Chowen. All of this has SPIRE tracking a rising curve of sales (300 since April 2010, one of the fastest selling projects in the nation) – even before today’s Year-End Special: not just a parking space, but a storage area and three months paid HOA dues on any home contracted by year end.
That also applies to luxury flats in the top-10 floors accessing an exclusive 42nd-floor SkyClub Lounge (you can visit) – now attracting upscale buyers wanting a ‘lock and leave’ lifestyle, according to sales manager Mark Friedberg. You’ll tour SPIRE’s 9th/10th floor amenities where residents do errands in one elevator stop — mail, packages, dry cleaning, groceries – and have a dog park, health club, Box Office theater, and view-swept pool and deck. You’ll be briefed on SPIRE’s sustainability – LEED® certified construction, Hertz-On-Demand hourly car sharing, and a Walk Score of 95 out of 100, even before 14ths renovation.
And ask about a 2-bedroom/2-bath SkyClub home on the 33rd floor, $478,000; and other homes from the high $200s. Take advantage of free meter parking today to reach SPIRE’s sales center between 14th and 15th on Champa.
If you go…
WHERE: Year-End Special at SPIRE, LEED® certified tower with smart, sophisticated, sustainable homes, unrivaled amenities, adjacent to the Denver Center for Performing Arts; on newly renovated 14th Street; free parking space, storage, 3 mo. HOA dues on all contracted homes thru year end. 891 14th St., Downtown; take Mall Shuttle to Champa, then south on Champa 2 blks to sales center (parking also available at sales center)
PRICE: From $283,000, SkyClub residences from $326,000
WHEN: Today, 11 until 5 p.m.
PHONE: 720-457-7550 WEB: SpireDenver.com
Mark Samuelson is president of Samuelson & Associates, a homebuilding/real estate communications firm. You can e-mail him at mark@samuelsonassoc.com.
