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Old Stapleton Airport was almost seven square miles, leaving it some room to grow even in a faster real estate year like this one — but Denver’s other aviation master plan, Lowry Air Force Base, was less than three square miles; and 15 years after it was converted over to homebuilding, that land is just about gone. It’s disappearing even faster in Denver’s aerodynamic 2012 market – for-sale signs vanishing, too – save for one on a 2004 luxury patio home you can tour Sunday, May 27, a few blocks’ walk from Lowry’s popular Town Center.
John Keith of Harvard Communities was a pioneer in creating ranch-style patio home enclaves – a housing type that’s become much more popular as baby boomers reach their retirement years. In 2003 he arrived at Lowry and grabbed some choice parcels for low-maintenance plans, then watched his ‘Hampstead’ enclave disappear to buyers coming out of Hilltop and Crestmoor, from just west of the master plan. No. 538 Ulster Way (the owners were looking for a second golf home in Scottsdale and found a deal so good, they’re selling the Colorado place and heading to the desert full time) combines the best of a ranch with some added space for multiple visiting grandkids – a main-floor master suite plus formal dining and a study; a guest suite and office niche upstairs, and two more guest beds in a finished basement (it has a rec room with wet bar, too…not to count 1,200 feet of additional storage space). The home gets front and backyard maintenance…but still has a fenced area beside the alley-load garage that’s big enough for a Labradoodle. Agent and Lowry expert Judi Phillips of Lowry Realty will show you all of that (she’ll have refreshments out noon-to-3); and will tell you just how fast the pace is as Lowry nears its build-out. Only one builder is left, she notes; along with some luxury condos that have gone like hotcakes this spring; just as a new beer garden opens at the base’s historic hangars and Wings Over the Rockies Museum. To reach her open house, take Quebec north past Lowry’s Town Center, 0.4 mile to E. Sixth Avenue, turn east a half mile to Ulster, then right. If you go… Low-maintenance patio home in Lowry with main-floor master, 3 guest beds, 3,783 feet fin., refreshments today. 538 Ulster Way, Denver; take Quebec Street north past Lowry’s Town Center, 0.4 mi. to Sixth Ave., turn east ½-mi. to Ulster, right PRICE: $689,900 WHEN: Open house Sunday, May 27, noon-3 p.m.
