As Denver sees a wave of move-ins by corporations and their high-paid executives, Kentwood agent Dawn Raymond watches buyers who arrive with their attention already pre-focused either on downtown, or two miles east on Cherry Creek. And after they compare the access, she says, they often lean toward the latter. “Everyone knows about Cherry Creek,” she says — and has a spectacular single-family custom home to show you why, from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 29, at 351 Madison Street, a five-minute walk from the shopping/dining district.
The price is $4.895 million, for four bedrooms/six baths, 6,460 square feet of finished space, counting a finished basement. Raymond notes that prices are up dramatically now as Cherry Creek leads a recovery of the luxury market around Denver; with even some townhome-type properties in key blocks around the shopping district pushing toward $3 million. “You pay a premium to be able to walk everywhere,” she adds, “but single-family gets an added premium. And there aren’t a lot of options; itap such a limited supply.”
The difference in quality between a single-family custom design that can reach wide on its 50-foot lot, and duplex or townhouse-style properties you’ve toured in the area, is starkly revealed in this contemporary 2007 design created for a couple in the motion picture industry. If the ultra-clean modern interiors you see now leave you feeling chilly, you’re going to resonate with the warm, contemporary approach that Newport Beach designer Jan Turner Hering has taken with this one. It blends gold tones with lush cherry floors and trim, rendered all the more vivid by the size and added natural lighting thatap only possible on a single-family detached plan (it was featured in a 2009 spread by Colorado Homes and Lifestyles).
You’ll see inviting entertaining areas that open onto two separate outdoor living spaces; a gourmet kitchen; a master with divided his-and-her vanities and a rain-spigot bath; a full-wide three-car garage; and a seated theater created to premiere film releases. The sellers are off to Raymond’s luxurious Laurel project, a few blocks south, Cherry Creek’s only new for-sale condo tower. To tour the home from 1 to 3 p.m., take E. First Avenue east from University through the shopping area, 10 blocks to Madison and turn north.
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