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If there’s any sign of the market cooling with the fall weather, you won’t find it in north Thornton, where popular Adams 12 Five-Star schools are driving a steady tide of families moving up to new homes. Lennar Homes is reaping that market at Lewis Pointe, situated beside one of Thornton’s highest promontories, where of four families who’ve bought this month, three saw their older homes sell within three days.
“Just the quest for the schools will fill the neighborhood,” says Heather Foglesong, who moved her family into Lewis Pointe last month, just west of Holly Street at E. 140th Avenue. Their older home in Thornton sold lickety-split last spring, and the family had to move into an apartment for seven months while Lennar finished the new one. That’s something that needn’t happen to you: Lennar has been out front this fall getting new homes ready for next spring – and has nine of them at Lewis Pointe that you could be settled into when Santa arrives. They all have ‘Everything’s Included’ features – items that Lennar figures any family would want, like slab granite counters, stainless appliances, a fireplace, air conditioning, and front yard landscaping; all at the standard price. Renewable solar energy is provided at no additional cost, maintained by SunStreet Energy Group. “‘Everything’s Included’ was huge for us,” Foglesong added, recalling that her husband had pointed out some other Thornton builders with similar pricing to Lennar’s. “Yes, honey,” she had replied. “But we don’t have to put anything else into this one.”That holds true, as well, for a new ‘Super Home’ model at Lewis Pointe that’s just opened during the past few weeks, from Lennar’s NextGen series of multigenerational homes, perfect for a family inviting mom and dad to live at home with the grandkids. It has five bedrooms up, plus another two on the main level in their own apartment-type suite, separated partially from the main living area. You can tour that today, along with five other show homes from the low $400s. If you like the looks of those, Lennar’s Nicole Kois and Marisa Gutierrez will show you similar ones near-ready now – such as a ‘Berkshire’ ranch, 1,849 square feet, plus daylight garden-level basement, huge deck, and THREE-and-a-half car garage ($438,000). Also, a family-sized 5-bedroom ‘Huntington’ plan with 3-car garage and wraparound deck that will back to an 18-acre park that Thornton plans on the hilltop ($499,000). And Kois will point toward Adams 12’s Horizon High School and Thornton’s $19.5 million VMAC aquatics center, each very close. A bright future is on the horizon for Thornton, she adds: Buyers love the new E470 beltway commutes to Boulder County as well as downtown; and RTD is already at work on N-Line rail service from downtown to north Thornton, scheduled to open north to E. 124th Street by 2018. For the meantime, finding this site a mile north of 136th Avenue on Holly takes a little concentration (despite the features, says Kois, most buyers who have connected with the location lived within three miles). If coming from I-25, take 136th east four miles to Holly and turn north; or from Highway 7, take Holly south. WHERE: Lewis Pointe by Lennar in Thornton, grand opening of new ‘Super Home’ multigenerational plan (5 bedrooms up plus 2 more in separate suite); Adams 12 Five-Star Schools, 9 homes ready for move-in before holidays including ranch; solar system by SunStreet. 14062 Grape St., Thornton; from I-25 take 136th Ave east 4 mi. (past Colorado) to Holly St., turn north to 140th; or from Hwy 7 take Holly south 2 mi.
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