Getting your player ready...
Retired teacher Kathy Alfeld, who right after Christmas will move into a roomy, low-maintenance patio ranch that Village Homes is finishing in Castle Pines, has one thing she can’t wait to see: “I’m looking forward to the first snow storm, so we can stand out on the porch with cups of cocoa and watch somebody else shovel the driveway.”
You can see a furnished model today of the same “Sagewood’ plan that she and husband John Alfeld picked at Village’s Crossings at Castle Pines, west of I-25 at Castle Pines Parkway – and you’ll get an idea why they’re making that move here, to Castle Pines, rather than into Denver or Englewood. The couple (he’s retired from Lockheed Martin) lived 25 years in a Castle Pines North 2-story a mile east. “We’ve walked three generations of dogs on these paths,” Kathy said, pointing to popular trails that wrap The Crossings’ neighborhood. Back then, she added, you had to drive into town for groceries in exchange for Castle Pines’ scenery; but now residents have Kings, Safeway and other shopping within a mile, and can actually walk over to the grille at The Ridge clubhouse, with its picture-postcard view down the Tom Weiskopf-designed public course.
They’ll glimpse the fairways from the new place – large front porch and an oversized rear deck; kitchen with a custom granite bar island (like in the model); and all ranch; no stairs except into the basement where Village is setting off some space for her office (Village has been very accommodating,” Kathy added). Two sets of neighbors who each have the same plan invited the couple in during their exploration, to show them the custom options they’d chosen.
Why did they buy now, instead of a year ago when they started looking at ranches? Because, Kathy Alfeld said, Village didn’t have a furnished model yet. “I couldn’t picture it,” she said. The model’s done now – Village’s Andrea Sederberg will show you that and two other homes that’ll deliver now, before the next snow. “These are not only the only new patio ranches within ten miles; they’re some of the last new homes that will be built in Castle Pines, period,” she adds. Counting the quick deliveries (a Camden 3-bedroom ranch with finished garden-level basement is $399,900) Village has only ten packages left – including three townhomes from as low as $279,900. Buy one of those three and Village will pay your HOA/maintenance for the first year.
Sederberg will have coffee and cookies today, for you and the visiting grandparents in town — a mile west of I-25 on Castle Pines Parkway to Bristolwood, just before the golf course.
If you go…
WHERE The Crossings at Castle Pines by Village Homes; spacious, low-maintenance ranches, furnished model on view; last 10 homes, garden-level ranch ready now; coffee & cookies Saturday. 7628 Bristolwood Ln., Castle Pines North; take I-25 south, past Park Meadows, 6 mi. to Castle Pines Pkwy; west 1 mi., just past Monarch Blvd., to first right on Bristolwood
PRICE Patio ranches from $340s; townhomes from $279,900
WHEN Today & Sunday 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.
PHONE 303-660-9309 WEB: VillageHomes.com
Mark Samuelson is president of Samuelson & Associates, a homebuilding/real estate communications firm. You can e-mail him at mark@samuelsonassoc.com.
