Getting your player ready...
Standard Pacific Homes, getting a reputation for eye-catching architecture with bright interiors, has a grand opening today in Stapleton that shows new ways of thinking about family living in the city. On all but one of these new plans you’ll find a porte-cochère – a side courtyard that was once a coach entryway in 18th/19th century buildings (including the White House), but that takes on new meaning in Stapleton’s hugely popular, new-urban environment.
“This doubles as a play court for children,” says Standard Pacific Homes Vice President Dawn Duhamel, showing off the large, protected space that’s highly visible from the kitchen-family area of the ‘Zinnia’ model grand opening today. “Your kids and their friends are right outside the window. They don’t have to leave the house.” A porte-cochère easily translates into an adult space, Duhamel adds – say, a barbecue area with room for an entire block party. It also serves its original function, allowing for easy, convenient drop-off/load-in access to the home’s large kitchen-family areas. You’re going to see other novel ideas, as well: room to seat the entire family around the island, or in a spacious dining area wrapped on two sides by windows. There’s also a ‘drop zone’ with connections either to the garage or the outdoor play area; clever bedroom levels with lots of flexibility; numbers of possibilities for main-floor bedrooms; and an emphasis on bright, well rendered finished-basement space. “More of our buyers are selecting that feature,” says Duhamel. These bigger sites Standard Pacific has in Conservatory Green also show surprisingly functional backyard space, even with the porte-cochère area figured in. That’s given a chance to display another novel idea: major home vegetable gardens designed by The Urban Farm Company of Fort Collins – an entire grocery vegetable department growing behind these two models and their outdoor-living spaces. And you’ll see other features attracting families to Stapleton’s 8th great neighborhood, including Stapleton’s nine schools (three more on the way), parks and tree-lined promenades planned for Conservatory Green, and walk-to access to The Shops at Northfield Stapleton, as well as to dining and community events at Stapleton’s East 29th Avenue Town Center. You can tour seven other builders and Stapleton’s Visitor Center. To reach from Quebec at Martin Luther King, head east on MLK a half mile to Central Park Blvd, then north a mile-and-a-half on Central Park to Northfield Blvd., and left a half mile to Uinta. WHERE: Grand Opening, Standard Pacific Homes at Conservatory Green, Stapleton’s 8th great neighborhood; 2,298-2,656 s.f. plus option for basement finish; porte-cochère side entries, backyard vegetable gardens; walking distance to The Shops at Northfield Stapleton. 8155 E. 49th Dr., Denver; from Quebec in Stapleton take MLK east 1/2 mi. to Central Park Blvd., north 1½ mi. to Northfield Blvd., left to Uinta PRICE: From the mid $400s
