To see just how much further your home-buying dollar goes in Castle Pines Village, compared with Denver or Arapahoe County, take a look at a custom home originally built as one of 10 or so custom designs featured when the Parade of Homes came to Castle Pines in 1989. The home at 466 Lorraway Drive is a four-bedroom, five-bath design with 5,756 finished square feet, on a half-acre lot shrouded in pines. It’s on the market at $949,999, after a $50,000 price reduction.
“Castle Pines Village has always been a different animal; $950,000 in the more desirable central Denver neighborhoods gets a fraction of this house,” says Brian Paul of ReMax Professionals, who will have the home open from 1 to 4 p.m. today.
“This is a half acre; in Denver, you’d hope for a quarter acre,” he adds.
The gated community wrapping the Castle Pines Golf Club course has a cache of lavish custom homes that are tucked in around the golf club’s fairways. But the 1989 Parade featured custom designs that were more down-to-earth in price, in an area you’ll reach today from Gate 2, east of Happy Canyon Road.
This one is a traditional Georgian design with an extensive brick wrap, and grand entryways leading to a circular staircase and wide-open entertaining areas. Kitchen and baths have been updated over the years, and the master and its bath show the same dazzle that would have wowed Parade-goers then.
Paul notes that the seller, a nationally syndicated talk show host, has always put the home’s spaces to good use for lavish parties, some black-tie, and the finished basement bar and entertaining area is over-the-top. As in all of Castle Pines Village, “It feels like you’re in the mountains when you’re 15 minutes from Park Meadows and 20 minutes from the Tech Center,” he adds.
To reach the open house at 466 Lorraway, take I-25 south past C-470 another 7 miles to Exit 187/Happy Canyon; turn right and proceed a mile to the first roundabout, and follow it all the way around to the eastbound lane, and check in at Gate 2 for a map. Brian Paul is reachable at 303-594-8989.
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