Trilevel plans were meat-and-potatoes for Colorado builders like Hutchinson Homes and Melody Homes that filled in vast areas of empty land west of Denver with affordable tract homes in the 1960s and 1970s. Now practically all of that buildable land in Jeffco is gone — and those four-decade-old homes now find themselves surrounded by some attractive urban amenities. Annie Schneider with Re/Max Professionals will show you one of those today in Lakewood’s Westgate neighborhood, a hop, skip and a jump from the city’s coveted Bear Creek Greenbelt.
At 2651 S. Garland St., where Schneider will have goodies out, you’ll see a 1974 trilevel with an atypical plan. On the usual trilevel, you walk in on a main with a kitchen, dining space and living room, from where a half-flight of stairs leads up to the master and two other bedrooms or down a half-flight to a family room. At the Garland home, you’ll enter a plan that has kitchen, dining space, master suite and bath, plus bedrooms two, three and their hall bath all on the main level, more like a ranch. The lower level shows the usual rec space that enters the garage or out to the patio, but the upper level is a wide-open Great Room under a pine ceiling with exposed rafters.
“I’m going to miss this,” says seller Greg Gardner, who raves about the access he and his wife enjoy to Bear Creek, where they’ve walked daily; to downtown attractions via either the Englewood or Wadsworth Light Rail Station; and, to Belmar, Red Rocks (they’ve gone four times yearly) and up U.S. 285 into the mountains. Schneider brings the home on the market today at $420,000 — a price she says thatap more likely underpriced than over. You’ll see a kitchen updated 15 years ago to oak and white tile; a nice streetscape with a maple and blue spruce, newly landscaped; a working hot tub; and, a fenced-in side pad to hide an RV.
From Sixth Avenue, head south on Wadsworth four miles to West Yale, and then west a mile, past Estes. Or from U.S. 285, take Wadsworth north to Yale and head west. Schneider is at 303-548-5299.
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