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If downtown’s Union Station is getting the headlines today, two years from now that spotlight will be on Continuum Partners’ half-billion-dollar redevelopment of the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center at 9th and Colorado — bordering Mayfair, just north of Trader Joe’s. Architect Peter Pappas, who has been a pioneer in bringing mid-century modern residential design back to Denver, has a dazzling home to show you there tomorrow and Sunday – one that’ll be two blocks from the restaurants when Ninth and Colorado opens.
“This location is great and the timing is great,” Pappas says, showing off the sleek lines of his contemporary 5-bedroom design at 1111 Eudora, a block east of Mayfair’s Lindsley Park, two blocks north of Rose Medical Center. Southwest across the park, many University buildings have been cleared, and you can clearly see where the centerpiece street along 9th Avenue will be, set for hundreds of thousands of square feet of dining, retail, offices and residential. “When Ninth and Colorado is finished, this neighborhood will be on fire,” says Taylor Wilson with Cherry Creek Properties, who’ll have coffee and cookies out at 1111 Eudora both days. “This is a creative mix that will put Mayfair within easy walking or biking distance of one of Denver’s most promising neighborhood centers,” Pappas adds. The Ninth and Colorado project, he notes, is a grander version of new ‘town centers’ created at Lowry and Stapleton that have both been hugely successful in driving transformations of their surroundings. Hilltop and Cherry Creek are also adjacent to the site, at prices well beyond Mayfair’s, Pappas says; but they won’t share the walkability Mayfair will have when those new attractions join Trader Joe’s, Starbucks and other venues now at the site.Easy commute to downtown
Pappas’ architecture has generated excitement in quiet Mayfair, says Wilson. Pappas brought his first modern stylings to tradition-minded neighborhoods in the 1980s and has been out-front popularizing the look — now reaching younger buyers who want it after leaving their space-age-styled lofts and townhouses in Highlands and LoHi. This one, at $1.275 million, is wide-open front to back, with a big kitchen with Euro-styled H&M custom walnut cabinets over HanStone quartz tops, set so that no uppers touch the ceiling, while setting the dining area off from the family areas. The bright living room has a gas-ribbon fireplace set in a porcelain tile face; and the staircase from finished basement to the bedroom suite level is a showpiece of its own – a single span of steel without a visible bolt or bracket. “The quality of Peter’s work can only be appreciated when you compare it to average new homes in Denver,” says Wilson. There are full oak floors upstairs and down; a master with its own ribbon fireplace; a bedroom-level laundry; and a loft overlooking the family area, set off by a glass rail. The basement, day-lit from large window wells, has a large entertaining area with party kitchen and wine cooler. As with other Mayfair home sites, this one affords a protected backyard and an alley-load 2-car garage.at DenverPostHomes.com