Just as Boulder voters did 20 years ago, Lakewood voters are feeling the urge to slow down growth — providing enough signatures to send a proposal capping housing growth at one-percent-per-year toward city council, and onto a ballot if council fails to approve. Broker Ryan Penn with 360dwellings gets an up-close view of the intense demand driving Lakewood’s growth, as Denverites push west in search of a better value.
“The chance of buyers in Denver finding anything appealing under $500,000 is a joke,” Penn says — who will show you how far a dollar goes in Solterra, the former Parade of Homes community off Alameda Parkway beside Hayden Green Mountain Park — where two near-new 3-bedroom/3-bath homes are open Sunday, Aug. 6, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
The homes at 15428 and 15438 W. Baltic Ave., one house apart in a neighborhood looking west to Red Rocks Park and Dinosaur Ridge, are virtually new — purchased from Cardel Homes by buyers that each put them back on the market without ever having lived in them, says Penn. They’re at $722,000 and $732,000 — one has 2,410 square feet finished, the other 2,605. Both homes have 9-foot unfinished basements, and three-car garages – one a tandem three-car, the other a full three-car with one a carriage bay that forms a Tuscan courtyard in the entryway. Penn has a $2,500 allotment on each to finish landscaping.
Both homes are the quality that central Denver buyers find only in Stapleton at these prices, with full master suites and kids’ bedrooms on a Jack-n-Jill bath. The island kitchens, where there will be cookies out from Gateaux Bakery, each show a stainless, five-burner gas cooktop with hood and quartz counters, surrounded by full wood floors on the main. To put the prices in context, Penn says you’re looking at two of only three upstairs-master-suite homes on the market in all of Solterra now that are priced below $800,000. To view, head west through Lakewood on West Alameda, past Union Street as it becomes Alameda Parkway. Continue west 2.5 miles to Solterra’s entry at Indiana, turn south a block to West Evans, then head west on Evans past Solterra’s clubhouse, continuing a mile as Evans becomes Nile, then Baltic. Penn is at 720-206-4268.
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