Getting your player ready...
Right here at Denver’s Stapleton – two hours jet time from trend-setting builders in California, three hours from Florida – you can tour two model homes that captured some of the nation’s major residential building awards this year – not just the local BAR Awards, but at the Best of American Living Awards in Orlando, and again at the Pacific Coast Builders Conference in San Francisco.
Denver’s own Infinity Home Collection took that last award for its PURE models in Stapleton’s Central Park West, in a competition that draws 400 entries not just from western states but all around the Pacific Rim. In Orlando, a team of the nation’s top architects and new home marketing experts ranked PURE’s Plan 2 (you can see it today) among the two top homes sized 2,000-to-3,000 square feet in the entire country – and homebuyers here in town are casting their own ballots the same way. Infinity sold a whopping $30 million in new homes at Stapleton last year – and already has 10 more families at PURE this year.
Top-rated architect Jerry Gloss says Infinity’s PURE is tapping into trends that are reaching younger buyers at a fundamental level – a WOW factor that captures them from the time they walk through the threshold. “There has never been a product that won across the board like PURE,” Gloss added, noting that the U.S. saw 4 million babies born every year in the past decade – creating a generational demand for the 4-bedroom sizing that every PURE design in Stapleton offers.
Infinity kept the styling “classic contemporary”…provides terrific outdoor living space…and loads in the value that this upscale family buyer is after, in the rectilinear plans, the premium finishes, and plenty of emphasis on the ‘family triangle’ – wide-open kitchen-nook-and family room area. All of those factors play big in who wins national awards right now; and they obviously resonate with these buyers, some moving up from older areas of Stapleton, some coming out of new-urban neighborhoods like Highlands and Wash Park, and some relocating into Denver for jobs at Fitzsimons and elsewhere.
“We put a great deal of thought into how a home functions, and who is going to live in it,” said builder Dave Steinke, who’s been in Stapleton almost from the day it opened (he’s sold another eight homes just east of here, in Infinity’s LIME neighborhood in Central Park). All of these designs show sustainability features – energy, water, air quality – and smart-home design, letting you ‘drive’ the features from your iPad. To reach from Quebec in Stapleton, take MLK east a mile to Central Park Blvd., left to E. 33rd and left again to Uinta.
If you go…
WHERE: PURE by Infinity Home Collection at Stapleton; 2 furnished models, 4-bed/3-1/2 bath homes on 7,000-foot-plus lots, award winners at all three major competitions, local and national. 34th and Uinta St., Denver; from Quebec Street in Stapleton take Martin Luther King Blvd. east 1 mi. to Central Park Blvd., left 0.2 mi. to E. 33rd Ave., left 2 blks
PRICE: From $579,900
WHEN: Today Noon – 5 p.m., daily 10-6
PHONE: 303-229-7845 WEB: InfinityHomeCollection.com
Mark Samuelson writes on real estate and business; you can email him at mark@samuelsonassoc.com. You can see all of Mark Samuelson’s columns online at DenverPostHomes.com
