Itap hard to imagine a better view of the Front Range than Doug McLaughlin had growing up at Fox Hill, his parents’ hilltop farm on Flintwood Road just south of Parker, where the landscape falls off to the west into Bayou Gulch.
Now, Doug, wife Paige and a new developer are taking the farm back to its roots, showing 1.5-acre to 4.4-acre homesites for a lower-density life, with room for kids to play.
Now is the moment that has created an opportunity for someone who has waited to custom-build — maybe a family imagining a lower-density life for their kids, still pretty close to town; or a couple thatap watched for a chance to sell their old two-story closer in, in favor of a ranch with a view.
As Fox Hill’s custom builders (a fourth signed on last month) get ready to start a series of custom-spec homes, you can explore the 1912 Charleston-style farmhouse — now a new sales center — and Fox Hill’s pioneering idea of a farm-to-table lifestyle, just a 30-minute commute from the I-25 business corridor.
This is a setting that could have you and your family living on a site 10 times the size that typical new developments are offering now, at a historic farm that will offer a fully sustainable garden and orchard on-site, producing free-range eggs, local honey and more.
“If I were going to build, I would want to see this now,” says Paige McLaughlin, noting that now is the moment when buyers have the most freedom to choose — the best pick of sites and views, and the option of choosing a true custom or a spec plan (including ranches) by one of the builders, with time to have it personalized.
McLaughlin adds that Fox Hill’s farm-to-table concept is already very popular with prospective buyers (“Why hasn’t this ever been done?” one asked). The working farm arrangement, being designed by a Franktown horticulturist, will include a ranch manager watching over the gardens and orchards. Buy-in on that amenity is optional, but McLaughlin says most buyers will want to be included.
McLaughlin will also show you the first releases of those very large sites. You can see the plans for homes that Copperleaf Homes, Clifton Homes, Gladstone Custom Homes and now Adamo Homes are offering, at prices from the $900s.
Adamo is set to go on a walkout ranch model and three specs, but you can still examine those big lots, priced from the $200s, and reserve one for only 10 percent down.
“There’s no other community like this, with such a legacy,” McLaughlin adds.
The McLaughlins, with Re/Max Alliance, add that Fox Hill can accommodate optional outbuildings, perhaps for a shop and/or car collection, or a set-apart home office.
Fox Hill is under 30 minutes from the Tech Center, and close to Ponderosa High and Franktown Elementary.
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