Getting your player ready...
While low-maintenance ranches have been getting rarer and pricier around Colorado, Lennar Homes has been at work on a new series of duplex-styled ranches – the look and feel of single-family homes at a lower price – for its very popular age-55-plus community at Heritage Todd Creek. Today, they’ll pull the wraps off those for you, a mile north of the new Quebec Street exit on E-470 in Thornton.
“We’ve been working for more than a year on these,” said Rusty Crandall, Lennar Colorado Division President, showing off the garage orientations of the duplex, one swung sideways. “To look and feel is like a separate home. You’re never going to have to see your neighbor.” With 1,634 to 2,035 square feet of finished space plus full 9-foot basements, these have similar sizing to Lennar’s single-family ranches at Heritage, showcased nearby in six more models. Lennar pulled in its existing homeowners at Heritage to tell Crandall and his sales team what features that they particularly like in their homes, and what they thought should be changed. Those ideas are front-and-center in these models: bigger kitchens with larger islands that seat three or four around the bar; bay windows in the master suites, ‘owner’s entries’ that connect garages to the interior, big covered decks that have private entrances to the master on some plans, a tendency toward big master showers instead of tubs (rarely used in the master), and private passageways from master to laundry room. The homes will get front and backyard landscape maintenance and snow removal as part of monthly dues that includes Heritage Todd Creek’s trails and huge community center with pool, bar/grill and lots of events. Meanwhile, at prices from the $350s, these duplex designs won’t require a lot of upgrades to make them work well for most buyers, says Crandall. In line with Lennar’s Everything’s Included approach to finish and trim, all will get slab granite counters, LED lighting, an extended hardwood floor package and other items standard. Crandall expects some inventory homes that are being created from the Briarwood designs to have prices only around $8,000 higher than base price. Lennar’s Mike DeNuzzi, Liz Midas and C.W. Vaughn will show you one of those: It’ll be ready for move in around April, two bedrooms plus a study, two-car garage with extra storage, full basement, fireplace and covered patio. If you like its looks, you can have it today at $379,900 – just a tad over the base price; and prices are expected to increase next week. “People look at these models and you can see them light up,” says DeNuzzi. “They can finally see themselves doing this.” DeNuzzi, Midas and Vaughn will also show you the single-family models from the low $400s, plus a small selection that could be ready this spring – including an ‘Abbey’ plan, 1,672 feet with two bedrooms plus a study, with full hardwood floors, priced at $399,650. And you’ll see the Arthur Hills golf course and review the other amenities that come with Heritage Todd Creek – loads of activities revolving around the community center, coordinated by an on-site lifestyle director – everything from acrylics to music groups to pickle ball to radio-controlled aircraft, along with Karaoke Nights at the clubhouse; poker tournaments, and a Couples Golf group where members play nine holes and adjourn to lunch at the Todd Creek’s Grill. To reach the Briarwood grand opening, including refreshments, take I-25 north past 470 to Highway 7, then head east four miles to Quebec and turn south to Heritage Drive, or take the new E-470 exit at Quebec and turn north one mile to Heritage Drive.DenverPostHomes.com
