When top-selling Kentwood Cherry Creek agent Pat Wall first laid eyes on the corner of East Fifth Avenue and Garfield Street, there was a small red brick grocery and butcher shop there. After a mid-1980s ski mishap put her in a cast, she recalls the butcher pushed her cart around the aisles. Wall still lives 6 blocks from here – a location gaining cachet now as new shopping and dining arrives in Cherry Creek North, walking distance in one direction and as Trader Joe’s gets set to open equidistant in the other direction.
Meanwhile, in 1994, a custom builder replaced the grocer with a sleek, contemporary home that was angled around the wedge-shaped lot – trapezoidal main floor and finished basement, with a long rectangular bedroom-suite level overhead. Wall, who’s bringing the home on the market today, says that her seller bought it out of foreclosure and did lots of tasteful trim improvements – toning down the loft-edgy aspects, gracing kitchen and baths with blends of hickory, ash, eucalyptus and maple, set off against bronze fixtures and lots of Travertine.
However, he kept that bachelor pad layout – a home that begs for parties to be thrown – big entertaining spaces set off from a wedge-shaped study by a two-sided flagstone fireplace. The master sprawls for 22 feet and ends in a dramatic bath suite with tile tub and walk-in shower. The price is $993,000 – one that, Wall notes, sounds more like an attached home than a Cherry Creek North single-family.
“Why buy a townhome when you could buy a single-family?” she asks, adding that she has averaged single-family sales in Cherry Creek North over the past two brisk years, and that they average closer to $2 million. She’ll have it open 1 to 4 p.m. today and will have refreshments out in the eye-catching kitchen, just in case you’re among some Tibetan monks who don’t know that this afternoon is a Broncos bye week.
To reach 464 Garfield St. in Cherry Creek, from East Third Avenue in the shopping district, head east to Garfield Street, then north 2 blocks.
if you go …
WHERE: Custom single-family home in Cherry Creek North, walking distance to stores and dining, 2,500 square feet plus large finished basement, refreshments.
464 Garfield St., Denver; from East Third Avenue in Cherry Creek, head east to Garfield Street, north 2 blocks
PRICE: $993,000
WHEN: Today, 1 to 4 p.m.
PHONE: 303-880-1433
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