Everybody knows that Sloan’s Lake is evolving into a millennial magnet now, with restaurants and a dine-in theater. What they DON’T know is that you can save $100,000 on a new home there, by buying a mile farther west of Sloan’s in a new-urban village that feels more like a real community.
On Sunday, Sept. 29, at West Line Village, west of the Sheridan light-railstation on West 10th Avenue, you can tour a new three-bedroom/3-1/2-bath home that has an attached one-car garage, with a wide-open entertaining area and a bedroom level where every bedroom gets its own bath, priced at $435,000.
“That’s around $100,000 less than comparably sized ‘slot home’ plans are going for closer to Sloan’s, that don’t have the extra bedroom and bath,” says Jill Samuels, who will show that and a few other new homes at West Line Village.
Samuels adds that West Line Village has other advantages for first-time or second-time homebuyers over those products that you see at Sloan’s — starting with the light-rail access into downtown. We took a five-minute walk down Lakewood’s Dry Gulch Trail Loop, to where West Line trains were departing for downtown’s Union Station.
“Some of our residents ride bikes into work,” Samuels said, showing off the wide, paved trail.
Meanwhile, West Line Village shows a sense of community that Samuels says is lacking from those big redevelopment projects near Sloan’s.
“This is so close to Sloan’s that a Lyft costs very little,” she adds. “We priced Lyft all the way up to Tennyson Street at only $4, if you’re sharing a ride.”
That three-bedroom plan is called the Union Station (West Line Village names all of its homes after train depots).
“It’s a perfect setup for roommates,” Samuels adds. “If they’re paying around $900 each to share, here you could have that and be on a track to homeownership.”
There are other homes from just $299,000 — a real price that will deliver a one-bedroom loft-style ranch plan with 788 feet of finished space in West Line Village’s new release of Phase 4 sites, set to deliver in early spring 2020. Like all of these homes, it’s a townhouse plan, with a creative, European village-like exterior streetscape, and nice interior features including vinyl plank floors.
The single-level design, Samuels adds, is also attracting move-down buyers, wanting to resize into a low-maintenance ranch after years in two-story homes on larger lots.
There’s no HOA fee, as West Line Village has a metro district that maintains the landscape and offers snow removal, wrapped into property taxes. Most homes show a “yardlet” for private use — big enough for a garden or for a pooch to wander.
Samuels will have Dutch Bros Coffee out Sunday, Sept. 29, when you see the homes ready for move-in. Or you can visit West Line Village at a special event at Dairy Block’s Milk Market in LoDo on Tuesday, Oct. 15.
To see the models and homes, take Sheridan to W. 10th near the light-rail station and turn west.
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