There’s no part of metro Denver where itap harder to do a new infill neighborhood than in the southwest, where Pinehurst Country Club opened in the 1950s, drawing attractive residential development that gobbled up much of the available land.
It took custom builder Zach Klimko and veteran broker Jack Fine four years to get hold of a site you’ll see Sunday, Oct. 13, to scrape an old home on 2 acres and build an enclave with nine new homes that are just what the doctor ordered for an area with very little new product available.
Now Klimko and Fine have opened Harlan Pines — nine mid-century modern single-family designs, all of them roomy ranches or main-floor master suite plans, designed by Rick Lawrence.
Three are already under contract before you get a look Sunday, Oct. 13, but you’ll see two homes ready for move-in right away, all featuring main-floor living, rendered with dramatic entryways and wide-open living areas under 10-foot ceilings.
The setting is going to appeal to anybody coming out of these older neighborhoods around Pinehurst. Itap secluded, well set back from the major arteries, but very accessible to U.S. 285 for trips into downtown, dining in Englewood or Littleton, or west to the mountains.
The new cul-de-sac created for the project has a pocket park lining one side, backs up to a nicer old neighborhood on the north, and on the south to playing fields at Colorado Academy, lined by a large berm.
On some of the main-floor-master plans, each with an upstairs for two guest bedrooms, Lawrence included a large outdoor living space thatap almost like a rooftop deck, allowing for views over the top of the academy and the low profile neighborhoods surrounding, west to the mountains.
Included in the price — from $725,000 for a three-bedroom-plus-study ranch — is some additional finished basement space, including more entertaining area and an added guest bedroom/bath.
You’ll see plenty of window area, trendy steel staircases with wood-block treads, outdoor living spaces that open to lower-maintenance backyards, contemporary kitchens and baths with quartz counters and Euro-styled cabinets, and Klimko’s signature indoor-outdoor fireplaces between the entertaining and outdoor living areas.
Early takers for the product, of course, include a couple downsizing from larger homes, but also younger buyers and one from out of state.
Mid-century modern architecture — a big hit in central Denver where it is appearing in new custom home designs — is just as popular in southwest and south Jefferson County, where one of the original neighborhoods of those emerged in the 1950s about 2 miles southeast of here, and where another builder has created a hit with them, at considerably higher prices than these.
Fine and son Justin Fine will be on site Sunday, Oct. 13, with refreshments, to show you two finished models, one a ranch, one a main-floor-master with over 3,300 finished square feet, at $850,000.
Don’t use Google Maps; it won’t show the site yet. Take Sheridan south from U.S. 285 a few long blocks to Lehigh Avenue, opposite Ft. Logan, and head west until it wraps around north onto Harlan Street.
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