By Mark Samuelson

So, where in the metro area did Nuggets forward Carmelo Anthony plop down a reported $12 million last year for a 16,000-square-foot Tuscan-style pad on a sprawling, gated estate? Was it Cherry Hills Village? Franktown? North Boulder County?

Actually, Littleton. Polo Reserve is off Platte Canyon Road, designed around a polo field for a Parade of Homes in the early ’90s.

The Parade was in The Farm at Polo Reserve: giant customs clustered around the field created for the Denver Polo Classic (300 yards long and equaling nine football fields…as backyard open space goes, very open indeed.)

Carmelo’s place is in there (it’s behind two gates). Next door is The Sanctuary, with acre/2-acres; and north of that, The Meadows at Polo Reserve, half acre-one acre, including a home for sale now.

Realtor Karen Brinckerhoff grew up riding at stables in Denver and says she doesn’t recall going south of Alameda Street until she returned home from college. Now she’s an advocate for Polo Reserve and its Littleton lifestyle…and lives in the Meadows.

What you get here, Brinckerhoff told me, are amenities to exceed what buyers find in fancy areas east of the Platte River. Those include the field (residents have purchased it from a private interest that had been staging outside events); and nice stables…linked into area trails, including the Platte Greenway that passes directly by.
Also Columbine Country Club and golf course, with a new chef recruited from Del Frisco’s, so close that Polo Reserve residents consider it to be a fixture of the neighborhood lifestyle.

After the 1980s real estate bust (worse by far than anything we’ve seen the last two years) Old Littleton was looking down at the heels. Now, downtown has Light Rail, trendy new dining, and a bright outlook, one that Brinckerhoff says is a great match for Polo Reserve itself – attracting an unusual number of east-coasters and Midwesterners, who feel at home with the clubby lifestyle here.

She also gives high marks to the public Littleton Schools. The traditional 5-bedroom house at No. 1 Arabian
Place is 3,415 sq. ft. on a half acre and has a nicely finished basement. Brinckerhoof has a web site where you can learn more about the listing at karen.brinckerhoff@coloradohomes.com.

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