At a high point along W. 29th Avenue west of trendy Highlands, three municipalities come together – Denver, Edgewater, and Wheat Ridge – and Jim Smith of Golden Real Estate, an expert on Denver’s western suburbs, will set an appointment Sunday, May 10th to show you a 5-bedroom/2-bath walkout ranch there that he has coming on the market this weekend.
At 2950 Jay Street in Wheat Ridge’s Panorama Park area, you’ll find a home on a larger-than-quarter-acre site, uncommon for a neighborhood built in the mid-1950s when lot sizes were getting smaller; although nowhere near as small as builders are averaging now. Priced at $550,000, the brick ranch faces out to Jay Street to the west; but the builder took advantage of the topography to have its 2-1/2-car garage back onto the end of a cul-de-sac on W. 29th Place, creating a big backyard with room for a large tool shed and a paved 24-by-12-foot pad to park an RV, shaded by four blue spruce.
You’ll see a home with 2,244 finished feet, three bedrooms and a bath the main level, and two plus a bath down beside a 12-by-33-foot family room with 7-speaker surround-sound system. The main level shows oak strip floors and an updated kitchen with all appliances, Corian counters, and a double Corian sink. The walk is under a mile to Edgewater’s venerable restaurants beside Sloan’s Lake, closer to Wheat Ridge places on W. 38th, all dating from streetcar days when these neighborhoods were known for their theme parks and recreational attractions near the lake. Smith notes that this price makes a marked contrast in cost-per-foot to areas a mile west across the line in Denver’s Highlands, where those dollars buy nowhere near as much space indoors or out.
The current sellers, there for 38 years, comment that they’ve never had better neighbors, and looked forward to a block party staged annually on the cul-de-sac at the rear. Smith is arranging private tours today by appointment only. From Sheridan Boulevard take W. 29th turn west a half-mile to Jay Street and then north.
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