Getting your player ready...
“People want neighborhoods where they don’t have to drive everywhere,” says Leonard-Leonard agent Mable Sutton; who specializes in areas east of downtown that have that walkability – including Uptown, where she’ll show you a remodeled 3-bedroom today at $400,000 that’s a half block off Seventeenth Avenue’s restaurant row.
Strings and Pasquini’s are two blocks west; and the core of the restaurant district at Avenue Grille, Hamburger Mary’s, and neighborhood market Marczyk Fine Foods another eight blocks west of 1655 Gilpin Street. There you’ll see a remodeled 1890 home that dates from when surrounding Weyman’s Addition was a one of the newest neighborhoods to sprout out of downtown. Sometime before its last sale in 2004 (you may guess that it was built as a bungalow and later popped to two levels, but that’s not true) this home had an extensive interior makeover – a little more contemporary look with glass block elements and Southwest styled finishes.
It has an appealing living/dining area off the entry; a main-floor bedroom with glass block served by a full bath; kitchen redone in granite tile and tile floor; and two upstairs bedrooms divided by a loft-type space and another full bath. The remodel created heated, covered space from the old back porch – now a likely computer work area with a deck overhead that glimpses the downtown office towers.
This is a 1,508-square-foot home on a 6,200-foot lot — plenty of tree-shaded yard space, most of it in a side yard to the south, in addition to a 2-car alley-load garage. In addition to the restaurant walkability, Sutton notes the near-ideal situation for somebody who works in or around the two major hospital campuses two blocks north at 18th and Franklin. She also points to Colfax – two blocks south; with a checkered past that she says is now headed in the right direction, thanks in part to support that John Hickenlooper gave the area during his tenure as mayor. “It’s a great mix of housing here,” she adds, pointing out condo additions on Gilpin and surrounding blocks. If you were to buy and then rent it out, she adds, you’re probably looking at around $1,800 a month on the revenue side.
To reach 1655 Gilpin from Broadway or Lincoln in downtown, noon until 2, head east on Seventeenth one mile to Gilpin, and turn right.
If you go…
WHERE: In Uptown, historic 3-bedroom built 1890, with a late remodel of kitchen/dining/bath areas; two blocks from hospitals; hot cider & cookies today. 1655 Gilpin Street, Denver; from Broadway/Lincoln St. in downtown, head east on 17th 1 mi. to Gilpin and south
PRICE: $400,000
WHEN: Today, noon until 2 p.m.
PHONE: 303-744-6200
