Stapleton — for two decades delivering Denver’s fastest selling neighborhoods — is getting into some of its final sites now, close to the Rocky Mountain Wildlife Refuge. And buyers there are ratcheting up their preference for Stapleton by reaching for its most luxurious new homes.
Since mid-January, Stapleton’s luxury builder Infinity Home Collection has sold 24 homes averaging around $1 million each, and Infinity’s three collections of models are totaling a handsome share of sales in the master-planned community.
Buyers, says Infinity’s Austin Ellis, include 30 percent who move up from older Stapleton neighborhoods, wanting more size and larger home sites. But they’re now competing with a wave of buyers from California, Chicago and elsewhere, who are often overjoyed by how much house they can buy from Infinity, compared to what they had in their point of origin.
Infinity Home Collection builder Dave Steinke says that Stapleton itself adds to the allure.
“Figure that it now has over 100 restaurants and shops, 50-plus parks and 35 miles of trails,” he said, pointing to the site of the community’s newest, largest pool, not far from Infinity’s three model home collections. “If your company is setting up its headquarters in the downtown area, or you’re a frequent traveler, and you see the commuter rail service from here, 10 minutes to Union Station or DIA, you have to be seriously considering Stapleton.”
Adding to the allure is the 16,000-acre expanse of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge that wraps Stapleton’s North End neighborhood, where bald eagles and buffalo roam.
All models you’ll see on Sunday, March 3, have won major awards both locally and a nationally.
“If you’re looking for five to seven bedrooms, over 4,000 square feet, plus a three-car garage, we’ve got it,” says Infinity’s Joe Batal, who along with Ellis can show you sites in North End now, at a moment when the best lots are available.
Rooftop decks in Infinity’s Alto and Vive models (they’re on view Sunday, March 3, at E. 60th Avenue at Central Park Blvd, from the $700s and $800s) will have views that sweep across the Front Range, while some premium Luxe Collection designs (on view a few blocks farther northeast, from the $900s) will look across the Wildlife Refuge.
“We offer a real value when you compare it to updating and remodeling an older Denver home, or scraping a house and building new,” adds Batal.
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