As the California Zephyr was readying to pull out of Union Station for its thousand-mile trip to Chicago, as it has daily for most of 70 years, Aish Narang was looking down on the scene from her new condo in The Coloradan — the same view you can get this weekend (March 30-31) as The Coloradan opens its two-bedroom-plus-study model and spectacular 18th floor pool/deck/clubhouse to visitors.
You won’t get that chance for long, as The Coloradan has already steamed through 95 percent of its 334 residences — only 15 left, with two-bedrooms from $805,000 and a couple of two-bed-plus-den units as much as $1.025 million.
“This is the most successful condo project in Denver’s history,” said Brad Arnold, vice president of sales and marketing for The Coloradan, while showing me the view that you’ll have Saturday and Sunday, March 30-31.
He adds that after two years of sales from brochures and scale models, the reactions he’s getting from visitors when they see the actual interiors and the views are over-the-top.
The first 53 residents who have closed on these homes seem just as excited.
“We’ve always come for the restaurants here,” said Joe Fogliano, who with wife Edie arrived from a historic home in Steamboat Springs they had owned for decades, now settled into a 15th-floor residence.
Their favorite eatery is an Italian place, one of a dozen such within a short walk of here, along with Whole Foods (right across Wewatta), King Soopers and more.
Narang, who works downtown, may not ride the Zephyr anytime soon, but she already takes A-Line commuter rail trains from Union Station to DIA for frequent business trips, and will be taking the day off from work April 5 to watch the season opener of the Rockies vs. the Dodgers at Coors Field — just across the footbridge to Union Station, then 2 blocks up Wynkoop Street.
Meanwhile, The Coloradan is seeing its own attractions arrive downstairs, including coffee brewer Kaffe Landskap and a bar and restaurant to be named. Pure Barre body workouts and Blo blow-dry bar are open now.
All of this is luring buyers from the suburbs and mountains, but more so from central Denver areas like Wash Park and Park Hill. Arnold, of East West Partners, adds that The Coloradan has been a virtual magnet for downtown renters and for buyers from older downtown LoDo condos, wanting to up their game.
“They want a better condo experience now, to be part of all thatap happening in the Union Station neighborhood,” says Arnold.
His team will greet you at a new sales office beside Blo on the main level; then allow you up to the two-bedroom-plus-den model, and on to the club area and pool-deck on top, strikingly appealing by day and doubtless better still at night.
You’ll hear about those remaining homes — including Number 1240, a corner view toward the ballpark, from a large balcony, priced at $1.025 million.
When you arrive from Wewatta Street west of the station, turn right to the parking entry, and choose the door to the right.
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