Getting your player ready...
You can’t see it today (closed for Easter), but with both of its builders’ models now open and with nine sales already on the books, the week ahead is the time to go see Midtown, the new-urban master plan taking shape just ten minutes northwest of LoDo, off Pecos Street between U.S. 36 Turnpike and I-76. “You’re not going to see homes like this anywhere else in Denver,” says Lindsay Esparza, who’ll join Felicia Smith in showing you Brookfield Homes’ three new models.
A couple of years from now it will be the Light Rail and the amenities that lure buyers to Midtown; but right now it’s the single-family home value – starting with a model that delivers just under 2,200 square feet of finished space, basement and 2-car attached garage included, for $347,000. Wrapped into that is the best energy package you can find for anywhere near this price – a HERS score in the high 40s, even before you add in extra electricity from 1.2 kilowatts of Dow solar singles that Brookfield includes standard. Down the street you can tour David Weekley’s two models priced from the $290s – along with a home that can deliver next month: a main-floor master with main-floor study, hardwood floors, 2½ baths, designer kitchen finishes, and 10-foot basement ceilings – not to count a low-maintenance yard and 2-car garage. It’s at $346,588 – a price that will look pretty good to anyone shopping single-family homes a few minutes south in Highlands; all the more so in downtown or Wash Park, where many of these buyers are currently renting. Meanwhile, Brookfield is already under way on many of the other features promised in Midtown’s master plan, to span both sides of Pecos Street out to bike trails that flank east and west, that’ll connect to LoDo and into Westminster and Arvada. RTD Commuter Rail won’t open until 2016, located near the onramp to I-76 a half mile south; but using the freeway you can already be into LoDo in under ten minutes. As soon as next January, notes Brian Stamm, first residents could see a temporary dog park and a community center where you could grab coffee; with loads of things to come – an event plaza, retail, community garden designed by Agriburbia; and a 43-acre park. Even sooner than that, you’ll see a passive solar home that Brookfield plans for this summer, along with more homes by both builders that could be ready to deliver this year. All of those have clean, contemporary lines that complement Midtown’s new-urban styling – garages in back, opening up more area for neighborly contact on the street. To reach Brookfield’s and David Weekley’s models, take I-25 north from downtown to I-76, head west a mile to Pecos, then north. WHERE: Models by Brookfield Homes & David Weekley Homes at Midtown, master-planned community 10 min. from downtown; 5 models of attainably-priced 2-to-4-bed single-family, full basement, 2-car attached garage; main-floor master, amenities, RTD Rail opens 2016; refreshments next Saturday. Pecos St. at W. 68th, Denver; from U.S. 36 Tnpk take Pecos south ¾-mi. to 68th; or from I-25 take I-76 west 1 mi., exit Pecos, north to 68th PRICE: David Weekley from $290s; Brookfield from $340s WHEN: CLOSED today, 10-6 daily and Sat, refreshments Sat Apr. 6; Sun noon-6
