If you’re running in the Colfax Marathon on Sunday morning, May 20, you’ll find the course taking a scenic 2.6-mile detour loop around Sloan’s Lake — Denver’s second-largest park and its largest lake, where water skiing is already open for the season.
After the race, custom builder Dave Pagano with G.J. Gardner Homes can show you five new three-bedroom rowhomes that could have you living in Highland, four blocks from the lake, by July, at $595,000.
G.J. Gardner is Colorado’s largest franchised custom builder, with nine builders up and down the Front Range who offer the kinds of homes and residential projects that large-scale corporate builders never take on.
Pagano, who covers new-urban neighborhoods around downtown like Highland and Sloan’s Lake, is just far enough along on these rowhomes at West 19th Avenue and Hooker Street to give you a tour, as they head for completion.
The prices on the homes (one is already under contract) don’t reflect the better quality of G.J. Gardner’s custom workmanship, according to Jeff Veronie, who gave me a preview last Wednesday. You’ll see real oak floors spanning the great room/kitchen level, and custom fixtures that are the stuff of G.J. Gardner’s higher-priced single-family homes for these neighborhoods.
Each of the five has three bedrooms, including a luxury master with five-piece bath, plus one on the main level that can swing as an office with a shower bath attached, taking the bath count to two-and-three-quarters.
Three of the remaining homes have attached two-car garages, and one has an oversized one-car garage. All of them have a rooftop deck, including one you can explore on your tour, to look at how well situated these will be.
To the west you’ll see block-wide Hallack Park and the trees along the lake beyond, with the tops of buildings at the Sloans redevelopment site, 10 blocks from here, with its emerging dining-bar-entertainment scene.
North, across Denver’s historic Witter-Cofield neighborhood with vintage Queen Anne and Victorian homes, is Highland Square and its restaurant scene, just over a mile. To the east is a good panorama of downtown’s skyline, plus Sports Authority/Mile High Stadium — close enough to walk to games.
G.J. Gardner’s Jeff Veronie, Jeff Cook and Chris Billington will show you that Sunday, May 20, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or by appointment, as well as other projects G.J. Gardner is offering on Denver sites (their Denver design is at 3870 Tennyson Street, 303-327-6211).
You’ll find other G.J. Gardner builders in Aurora, 303-768-0101; Adams County, 303-658-0146; Cheyenne, 307-638-2030; Colorado Springs, 719-495-7664; Fort Collins, 970-663-4428; Loveland, 970-669-0822; and Grand Junction, 970-245-7542.
G.J. Gardner also has new townhomes in Denver’s Virginia Village, 4401 E. Jewell, from the $550s; and condos a mile from Anschutz/Fitzsimons, 15165 E. 16th Place, Aurora, from $248,600.
If you’re a builder interested in franchise opportunities with G.J. Gardner, call Brook Swientisky at 303-760-0101.
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