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In a year when the Boulder Valley’s fortunes are markedly upward bound (its companies are getting more venture capital now than any like-sized area in the country), Ryland Homes can have you in a new-urban styled home with a Boulder County address, along with basement, 2-car attached garage and fenced side yard, for just a little over $250,000.
Ryland’s Angie Hunt will show you Coal Creek Village in Lafayette, with two furnished paired-home models priced from $251,490, just four miles from the Turnpike and Interlocken; much closer to the new Northwest Parkway and its direct route to DIA. Beautiful new Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center is a very short bike ride (the reason why many of Ryland’s first ten buyers work at the hospital); Foothills Parkway in Boulder is eight miles. In an area where buyers tend to settle for apartments or condos, Ryland says its residents are attracted by the attached garages and the side yards with 5-foot privacy fencing, a particularly valuable asset if you’ve ever tried raising a dog (or a kid) in a condo. Hunt says her buyers like the paired home lifestyle – little or nothing in the way of outdoor responsibilities, and better places to spend that saved time, including small-town shopping/dining close by in Lafayette; Lamont Does Park with its pool/tennis courts within a short walk; and the Coal Creek Trail edging the neighborhood. After you tour the models, Hunt can show you a ‘Vibrant’ from Ryland’s Vitality paired-home series that can be ready for move in soon – three bedrooms, 2-1/2 baths plus a study, 1,806 feet plus basement, a bright main-level family/entertaining area (all of these homes are end units, light from three sides), and trend-setting uses of space including drop-n-store zones, perfect for purses, boots, etc. It’s priced at $291,490; and like all of Coal Creek Village’s homes, has Energy Star 3.0 design with high performance heating/cooling and appliances and 2×6 exterior walls with R-20 blown cellulose insulation; along with an All-American Summer Sale special – air conditioning and stainless appliances including a fridge, at no cost. Ryland also has a choice selection of new-urban single-family homes from $301,490, including an ‘Eager’ 3-bedroom, 2-1/2 bath plan on track for delivery right about the time school opens at Boulder Valley’s nearby Ryan Elementary. To visit, take U.S. 287 north from the Boulder Turnpike, through Broomfield, 4 miles to S. Public Road; turn right and continue 1/3-mile to Old Laramie Trail and turn right. If you go… WHERE: Coal Creek Village, affordable new-urban styled paired homes & single-family homes; furnished models; free air conditioning, stainless appliances, fridge; rated Energy Star 3.0. 350 Casper Dr., Lafayette; from Boulder Turnpike take Wadsworth/U.S. 287 north, through Broomfield, 4 miles to S. Public Road; turn right and continue 1/3-mile to Old Laramie Trail, turn right PRICE: From $251,490; single-family from $301,490
