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On a Broncos Bye-Week Sunday, two builders at Tuscan-styled Solterra have a great idea for something to do when you get that urge for potato chips and dip today. They’re holding a tailgate party to show off the scenery that surrounds their new sites, and two routes to home ownership at way, way below the prices Solterra usually commands.
Both offerings – a line of Tuscan-styled townhomes by Cardel Homes, and a release of Signature single-family designs by Brookfield Residential – offer much more than lower prices, says Cardel’s Sales and Marketing Manager Sara Dieringer. They’re both oriented toward low maintenance and a lock-n-leave lifestyle, in a scenic area where you can find much better ways to spend your time than mowing and shoveling. “Both of these are opportunities to simplify life,” Dieringer says. “Instead of raking leaves, you can be going for a bike ride.” And no community in the Denver area offers a better place for that than Solterra – with its own trails inside the neighborhood, and literally wrapped by Lakewood and Jefferson County parks and trails – Hayden Green Mountain bordering on the north; Dinosaur Ridge on the west, and with Red Rocks Park and Mt. Falcon Park just beyond. Both builders are at the pre-sale stage – no models to tour yet, but with low prices that are bound to rise when they’re further along. And both are already attracting sales to a wide market that’s looking for this sizing and for low-maintenance. Buyers include those who are downsizing from homes they’ve owned for decades, but also younger ones who like both the pricing and the lack of yard work. “These buyers already own bikes and they’re oriented toward locking-and-leaving; some already have trips planned for next year,” says Brookfield’s Bill Gleeson. He’ll show you single-family plans from the $440s, and can arrange to show you real models at Midtown near downtown, with high styling that has already attracted 70 sales there. Meanwhile, Cardel’s 2-bedroom-plus-loft and 3-bedroom plans are sized 1,688 to 1,693 square feet, from as low as the $370s. Cardel has consistently strong sales of townhomes in Highlands Ranch – and has 70 sales of its single-family homes here in Solterra since the first of the year, at prices around $100,000 more than these townhomes will be. Katie Salvatore, on hand with Lynette DuVall today, notes that Solterra is surrounded by Lakewood and Jefferson County areas where buyers have waited for years for the chance to downsize to newer homes. You’ll experience an easy commute to downtown – faster still to new St. Anthony Hospital and Lakewood’s Restaurant Row; and you’ll see Solterra’s lavish amenities (homeowners currently pay only around $140 a month for those). Take C-470 either north past Morrison or south from I-70 to the Alameda exit; head east a mile east to Indiana; turn south a mile to Wesley, and head west to the party site.
