Getting your player ready...
Lots of people have been waiting for five years for something you can come see today: the first completed model home in Lowry’s final chapter, Boulevard One at Lowry, in what’s doubtless the best location of any neighborhood released during Lowry’s 20-year redevelopment.
Just south of E. First Avenue at Magnolia (a block east of Monaco), cutting-edge builders Rich Laws and John Keith will show you Berkeley Homes/Harvard Communities’ 3-bedroom design for its Avenues collection of homes at Boulevard One. The series, priced from the low $700s and custom-designed for this new-urban setting, has already drawn 12 sales in advance of this grand opening – totaling more than a third of Berkeley/Harvard’s sites for Boulevard One; and the model shows why. Meanwhile, you’ll get a chance to see plans for something you’re only going to get from Berkeley/Harvard: a big ranch the builders have designed for some lots that will open onto a central park in Boulevard One. Of 12 park lots, half a dozen will take this 2,400-square-foot ranch – one that’ll have eye-popping entertaining areas and a master suite with sitting area – plus finish possibilities in a full basement. Prices for the ranch and other large ‘Park Collection’ homes are from $1.1 million. (Berkeley/Harvard has a ranch already underway, with a view of Mt. Evans, that you could be moved into by June, $1.125 million.) This is also your first chance to see the quality of the urban neighborhood that’s becoming Boulevard One – once an annex near one of the air force base’s runways; now a sculpted interface between Lowry’s original master plan and prime neighborhoods like Crestmoor, Hilltop and Mayfair. You’ll see the site contours, the parks taking shape that’ll have gazebos and artwork, and where retail and dining will arrive as a walkable new-urban complement to Lowry’s Town Center. “This is Lowry’s grand finale,” says Berkeley’s Rich Laws, showing off those 12 sites facing the park. Laws and Keith are no ordinary builders: They’ve each done trendy enclaves that helped shape Lowry’s remarkable success over the past 20 years. And working in tandem, they’ve created new-urban areas in Lone Tree that won national design awards and turned heads for their energy efficiency. Both Berkeley/Harvard collections will have energy design front-and-center: tankless water heating, staged-and-zoned HVAC systems, and new-tech windows and insulation expected to deliver HERS scores in the 40 range (lower is better); 150 percent better than a code-built new home. Each home will also get three kW of solar electric, in a leased arrangement with Solar City. Berkeley’s Carol Barrington (she’ll have catered treats out today from Lowry’s Tavern and North County bistros) will show you an imaginative basement finish that adds a fourth guest suite and great entertaining area to the new model – rendered brighter and lighter by 9-foot basement ceilings and extra-large window wells. “Practically everybody that has already signed on wants that,” Barrington says. Many of them are coming from even bigger houses in Crestmoor and Hilltop – and although they’re downsizing, they’re selecting prime finishes and loading on options to maximize Boulevard One’s potential. Berkeley/Harvard’s grand opening at Boulevard One is a block south of 1st Avenue on Magnolia Street. From Alameda take Monaco north to 1st; then east a block to Magnolia.Sunday 11-6 PHONE: 303-340-3333
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