The huge Gaylord Rockies Resort rising from the landscape along Peña Boulevard is giving Denverites a new way of looking at the northeast metro area on the way out to DIA. But Oakwood Homes, the big homebuilder in that area, will let you have a very personal view of how the area is taking off on the residential side, with a preview Saturday and Sunday, May 26-27, of The Enclave, its new gated neighborhood wrapped by the fairways of Green Valley Ranch Golf Club.
The three model homes (including a ranch plan) that Oakwood is grand opening at The Enclave next weekend (Saturday, June 2) are easily the most striking builder models that have opened in the Denver area this year, combining the very best of what Oakwood has always brought to the homebuilding scene: wide-open and imaginative living areas at value prices. But itap the setting at The Enclave that will capture your attention when you arrive for a preview.
The Enclave is on the eastern end of Green Valley Ranch, close to where the 71-mile-long High Line Canal comes to its end. When you drive in, you’ll pass dense stands of cottonwoods that line the canal, alongside the pretty 7th, 8th and 9th fairways of the golf club — forming a backdrop from some of Oakwood’s first home sites. You’ll see the gatehouse being completed and where Oakwood is creating a neighborhood pool and cabana.
Green Valley Ranch locals have waited for this site to open, and they were given an advance opportunity to pick homes (seven have sold before Saturday’s preview).
“We’ve watched it for a very long time,” says Green Valley Ranch resident Barbara Blunt, stopping by to preview the models you can visit now, after her husband saw them last week. She says she likes the gate and Oakwood’s architecture, with lots of variation between plans.
If you want, you can wait for next Saturday’s grand opening — the largest Oakwood has ever staged, with music and vintage cars — but Oakwood’s Laura Duhot says the best choice of sites in The Enclave is what you’ll pick from now, including views over the course and treed open space.
You’ll be wowed by these three models — starting with a big-family Boulderado plan, over 3,370 square feet of finished space, with flex-space options for as many as seven bedrooms using a basement finish that you can see modeled. Also, a Ouray plan that is a creative look back at multilevel designs of the 1970s and 1980s, with a step-down family room that adds even more depth and drama to a bright, wide-open plan.
There’s an Oxford ranch, as well, almost 2,300 finished square feet, not counting basement finish possibilities, priced from $449,900.
If you like the looks of The Enclave, Duhot will show you two homes that could have you living here by August — including a four-bedroom Barrington, $630,815; and a Stanley five-bedroom design, over 4,100 square feet, at $632,055
You’ll see how well-positioned this is to the new DSST middle and high school campuses, and to a new Painted Prairie mall set to arrive on East 56th Avenue near Picadilly.
This is all too new to Google-map correctly, but to preview, take Green Valley Ranch Boulevard east from Peña 3 miles to Orleans Street and turn north 2 blocks to E. 49th Avenue.
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