With Sunday’s Outdoor Market at Belmar, a gourmet tour of spacious lofts that overlook shops, dining
By Mark Samuelson
If you’re looking for a luxury urban condominium, you’re looking in downtown. However, you’re probably missing an opportunity in a new kind of downtown created at Belmar…loads of restaurants and attractions six miles west of downtown. Marketers of Plaza Residences know that they have to try a little harder to be noticed…and that’s what they’re doing Sunday, Aug. 30—offering a gourmet open house above the Sunday Outdoor Market at Belmar, with giveaways of $500 and $100 gift certificates.
Kevin Garrett, Kentwood City Properties, shows a view from penthouse overlooking Belmar.
It was at an event like this that Barry and Holly Kutner discovered Belmar’s charms and bought a big penthouse, a few doors from one you’ll tour. The Kutners weren’t moving from Arvada or Genesee but rather Philadelphia–getting things they like about the big city (including walking to Whole Foods), together with the better access west to the mountains that Belmar can offer.
No surprise that of the urban flats already sold at Plaza Residences (two-thirds are gone), seven went to out-of-state buyers like the Kutners. “When you’re coming into Colorado from someplace else, you’re relying more on the Internet and on Realtors,” says Kevin Garrett of Kentwood City Properties, who you’ll meet today. “You’re a little more likely to discover something that local buyers have overlooked.”
At Belmar, that includes Wyestone’s Tea Room and Mark & Isabella’s Italian (they’re both catering the three models today), Ted’s, P.F. Chang, Elephant Bar, galleries, lots of shops, and coffee places. Baker Street Pub, across from Plaza Residences, is a popular scene after dark…and Century Theaters are right across the street.
You can be part of that scene for as little as $229,670 (a 955-foot 1-bedroom flat with high ceilings, granite tops, ¾-inch hardwood floors, and an underground parking space)…or, $853,060, for a sprawling 3-bedroom-plus-study penthouse, with 270-degree view from its corner deck that spans mountains to downtown. There are numbers of possibilities between; all of them, Garrett notes, priced about 15% less now than on opening day…coming in from $250 to $300/square foot.
To reach, take Wadsworth south from Sixth to Alameda, east two blocks to Teller, then right two blocks down Belmar’s Main Street.
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WHERE: Plaza Residences at Belmar, hors d’oeuvres by Mark & Isabella’s and by Wyestone’s Tea Room in 3 luxury models, during today’s Outdoor Market; drawings for $500, $100 gift cards. Belmar, opposite Century Theater; take Wadsworth south from Sixth to Alameda, left (east) 2 blks to Teller, right to 7220 W. Bonfils Ln.
PRICE: From $229,670 to $853,060
WHEN: Sunday, Aug. 30, 10 a.m. until 2 p.m.
PHONE: 303-520-4040 WEB: LiveBelmar.com
Tags: Belmar, Denver lofts, Kentwood City Properties, Kevin Garrett, New Urban, Whole Foods
