McStain Neighborhoods has a 40-year reputation for creating homes that appeal to Boulder buyers, in areas of Boulder County at way-below Boulder city prices.
Right now, itap seeing serious fall traffic at an enclave it designed for small-town Erie, 20 minutes from Boulder business campuses along Foothills Parkway.
Among two homes that sold at Erie’s Lost Creek Farm last month is a 3,500-foot Aspect plan with a fourth bedroom on the main leve — after an airline pilot and his wife discovered McStain while biking past on Boulder County’s trail system, a few blocks northwest of Erie’s historic downtown.
The couple stopped to tour a model of that Aspect plan (you can walk it now), then drove back the next day to find out whether McStain could customize the main-floor bedroom to work as a mother-in-law suite.
McStain is totally willing to make those kinds of modifications — something that connects with Boulder-area buyers, as do the sustainability and healthy lifestyle features that have always been part of McStain’s business model.
Accompanying that home is a site on a cul-de-sac with a lower density than you’ll find on any new homes closer into Boulder at this price — sites averaging a third to a half-acre, affording big views west to the Indian Peaks. Erie’s St. Vrain Schools are close by, and families here find lots of fun dining options along the town’s historic Briggs Street.
If you happen to like the looks of that big-family Aspect model, you’ll find that McStain has another one like it, with five bedrooms and five baths, including two on a Jack-n-Jill bath beside a large loft/play area, plus that main-floor suite with its own bath.
It delivers 3,495 square feet of finished space, at a price of $875,000, a square-foot cost thatap about half of what homes go for in the city of Boulder. That includes front yard landscaping, a setting right beside a trailhead, and much of the features you’ll see in the show home, including the wide-open plan that “reveals” well from the entry, the kitchen with a 12-foot-long island, a big, covered outdoor living space and nicer casement windows.
Thatap among a small selection of new homes McStain has nearing completion right now for families that want to be settled in for the holidays, including a Myriad ranch — ready now — with finished basement space, priced at $725,000.
McStain’s Angie Hunt, who along with Amanda Taylor will show you Lost Creek Farm, says that buyers this fall are trending toward those ready-to-go-homes, pre-qualified, many with their older places already on the market.
If arriving on Erie Parkway, avoid construction by turning onto Briggs Street through Erie’s downtown and its popular tavern scene with Azteca, 24 Carrot and The Old Mine. Lost Creek Farm is 6 blocks west, just west of County Line Road between Jay Road and Delechant.
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