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If you’re working in or around the city of Boulder, you know what a short distance a sum like $350,000 goes inside Boulder city limits – way, way below the cost of a very dated home with poor living spaces and no energy efficiency. That will make quite a contrast today when Ryland Homes’ Russ Weber shows you what $345,990 will buy at Shadow Grass Park, a few minutes north in the town of Longmont – a short commute on the Diagonal from central Boulder employers; closer still to IBM, DigitalGlobe and other high-techs right inside Longmont itself.
That’s the price of an Insight plan with four bedrooms including a main-floor master suite – one that Ryland has on track to deliver this June. It will have 2,570 square feet of finished space, including a main-floor study and a loft as a play area or media space, upstairs with bedrooms three and four. The price-per-square-foot is only around $135 – and includes 2-car garage and unfinished basement. “That’s a very low cost-per-foot,” Weber says, adding that he used to sell for another builder in Lafayette, a comparable distance from Boulder, at prices that came in around $50,000 higher than these. Sales have already been too rapid, Weber says, for Ryland to have any homes at Shadow Grass Park that can deliver earlier than that – but the tradeoff is that you can pick your own decorator options. Meanwhile, Shadow Grass Park is just up the road from mile-wide Union Reservoir, a natural lake lined in cottonwoods, picnic areas and a beach – closer still to Fall River Elementary School. (Read a gushing review of the school by a parent who had moved from California, followed by similar ones, most very flattering, at GreatSchools.org.) And you can explore Longmont’s authentic Main Street 2.5 miles west, with Mike O’Shays, Pumphouse Brewery and other popular taverns, and see how close this is to mountain recreation sites. If you don’t need quite the space you’ll get in the Insight plan, you can explore Ryland’s Scene model home — three bedrooms, over 2,300 square feet – and see plans for a ‘Bliss’ ranch plan – most popular home design in the community. Ryland has one on track from summer at just $369,420 – a price range, Weber says, that lures younger families to consider it, along with buyers who are downsizing to single-level living. Weber can also take you on a walking tour of a new cul-de-sac of home sites that Ryland is releasing now, and five sites where Ryland could deliver you a day-lighted garden basement. Shadow Grass Park is on County Road 1, a mile-and-a-half north of Highway 119/Ken Pratt Boulevard in Longmont. If coming from Denver, take I-25 north, past E470, and continue another 12 miles to Exit 229/Highway 119, head west four miles to County 1 and turn north 1.5 mile. WHERE: Ryland at Shadow Grass Park, Longmont, furnished ‘Scene’ model, ranch & main-floor master plans ready for June move-in, new cul-de-sac home sites released, garden-level basements available. 1317 Sunshine Ave., Longmont; from Denver take I-25 north past E470, continue north 12 mi. to Exit 229/Hwy 119, west 4 mi. to County Rd 1, north 1.5 mi. PRICE: From $317,000
