Green Valley Ranch, home to thousands of Denverites who bought first or second homes there when it was surrounded by prairie, is now smack-dab in the middle of the metro area’s most exciting growth corridor.
Green Valley Ranch’s builder/developer Oakwood Homes has a big future laid out for the master-planned community and is ready to show you how you can be part of it.
Today, you can push east on Green Valley Ranch Parkway, across Picadilly Road, to a grand opening of the sales center for Green Valley Ranch Aurora, a major expansion of GVR that will eventually deliver 2,800 homes.
Oakwood is readying three series of home design — including its super-popular Carriage House collection of spacious, low-maintenance homes at very attainable prices, along with two never-before-seen collections.
Along with today’s opening, Oakwood is staging a formal groundbreaking for Green Valley Ranch Aurora near the new sales center this coming Wednesday (Oct. 30, 10 a.m.), and you’re invited. But homebuyers aren’t waiting for that moment to take advantage.
“We’re already seeing buyers who live in older homes in Green Valley Ranch who have been watching this,” says Kara Svendson, who along with Ritchie Kotschau and Allyson Greenberg will show you the designs now.
They already have six homes sold for those single-family Carriage House designs — ones on track to deliver next spring, priced right now from the $320s — and another nine for Oakwood’s new Meridian and Horizon single-family collections, from $359,000 and $385,000, respectively.
“These are people who have plenty of equity in their older Green Valley Ranch homes,” Svendson adds. “They can’t find anything in the resale market that comes close to what we’re offering.”
Meanwhile, says Greenberg, sales are likely to explode when this expansion is discovered by Denver city renters, who are often paying $1,700 to $2,200 a month to be near Stapleton, without the amenities that Oakwood will be providing in this Aurora expansion.
“Interest rates are so low now that itap silly not to be using that money,” she adds.
Appealing to both groups are ranch plans; Oakwood has four that are being introduced between the new series. Along with people downsizing out of older homes, early buyers of those include younger families that like the pricing for a first-home purchase and the way a ranch lays out.
At the new sales center, you’ll see where Oakwood has a pool planned for that first neighborhood and where trails and parks will be. And you can see how this will work for commuters — around 18 rush-hour minutes to the Anschutz medical campuses; 35 minutes to DTC; just 10 minutes to DIA and other sites in the fast-growing “Aerotropolis” area near the airport.
From Green Valley Ranch, discover GVR Aurora by heading east on Green Valley Ranch Boulevard, just past Picadilly. Or if coming from anywhere along E-470, exit at East 56th Avenue and head west a mile to Picadilly, then south.
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