In South Jeffco, two chances for a custom home on 1-acre sites beside Bear Creek, room for a car collection
There’s one corner of the Denver Metro Area where finding a custom home site with room to do something special is nearly impossible. South Jefferson County is a setting so attractive and so close to mountain parks that most sites like that disappeared to builders many decades ago.
But John Kurowski, one of Colorado’s most accomplished and respected builders, has a few one-acre sites off S. Estes Street, 18 minutes from downtown, right beside Bear Creek Greenbelt. He’s incorporated them into a very private 6-home custom enclave, and still has two sites remaining.
Decades before today’s spotlight on sustainable building, Kurowski built a series of ‘Econergy’ custom
show homes that were featured by the Home Builders Association of Metro Denver—each of them representing technology that was way ahead of its time.
A multi-gen suite?
With the size of these home sites and with their window onto the Bear Creek Greenbelt and its popular trail corridor, a buyer could reach for a netzero or other sustainable design—while incorporating other trends that are difficult to do on smaller lots.
Those include the possibility of a multigenerational suite, either as part of the custom home itself, or as a separate detached unit with its own kitchen and bath. “Multigenerational suites are very popular now,” says Kurowski.
Also possible is a super-sized garage for a car collection; either as part of the home or as a standalone barn. Car collections are particularly popular in Lakewood and South Jeffco, Kurowski adds.
“Home sites like this are superrare in the middle of Southwest,” notes Kurowski. “I’ve built for forty-five years and never seen
anything like them.”
The way to get involved with these is to meet Kurowski for a tour of Sundance—already showing an attractive entryway along Estes Street, where access into the individual home sites is already curbed and paved.
You’ll see the wooded greenbelt bordering the site, the views west to Mt. Morrison, and the trailhead steps from the entryway where hikers and cyclists head west into the foothills, or east to the Platte River Trail into downtown. Two large, fishable lakes are within an easy walk; along with a historic ‘Old
Stone House’ dating from 18591864, now used for weddings and other events.
You could buy a site for $650,000 while you make plans; or start work now with Kurowski on a custom plan from $2.3 million.
Call Kurowski for a tour; or to preview the site, take W. Yale Avenue west from Wadsworth along the open space to Estes Street, then turn south through the park to the Sundance entryway.
Sites are large enough for a car-collection-sized garage; either attached to the home or as a standalone building