At ‘Community of the Year’ Anthem Ranch, lifestyle gets even Douglas County couples to move to Broomfield
At Anthem Ranch, Del Webb’s all-ranch lifestyle community on a view-swept hillside north of Broomfield, it’s not that hard to get a buyer to pack up and move from Phoenix or even New Jersey. It’s a little tougher, says Del Webb’s Melanie Dube, to get somebody that lives in Highlands Ranch to do it…but it’s still happening.
Elaine and George Hager (left), from New Jersey, visit a super-affordable ‘Powderhorn’ ranch. Del Webb’s Melanie Dube had sold them their New Jersey home, as well.
“Highlands Ranch is 30 miles from here, and buyers who visit from there sometimes worry they’ll have a hard time making a new circle of friends,” says Dube, who has ten ranch models to show. “Some come back a dozen times; but once they talk to our residents, they’re sold.”
Last spring, when Del Webb had many single-family ranches waiting in inventory, you could visit a dozen times without worrying about whether there would be a home waiting for you when you were ready. But not anymore, says Dube. Anthem Ranch (last week, it won the 2009 BAR ‘Community of the Year’ award for the entire Denver area) has seen 30 homes disappear…and now has only three that can deliver before the holidays (one of them priced at only $374,000).
Dube and other Anthem Ranch sales consultants will show you sites where Del Webb can deliver a home this coming spring, including some with great views over open space to the Indian Peaks. “But if you want to be here,” Dube adds, “you need to get moving.”
One of those sites will likely disappear to Elaine and George Hager, whose kids have finally left home in New Jersey, giving them a chance to move from their Del Webb community there, back to Denver where they’d lived in the 1980s. “We loved the way that Del Webb builds,” Elaine said. “They take care of everything.”
The Hagers (he’s a retired surgeon) also know they’re unlikely to have trouble getting into the community scene at Anthem Ranch. They’ve already toured the ‘Aspen Lodge’ community center with indoor/outdoor pools and gorgeous fitness center, where clubs have formed around everything from scotch-tasting to poker. All of that is wrapped in 800 acres of open space and 48 miles of walking and biking trails.
The HOA fee for all of that is currently under $150/month! You’ll visit a luxurious ‘Aspen’ ranch, 2,837 feet and a 3-car garage that won the 2009 award for Denver’s ‘Best Design Under $600,000,’ and a new ‘Powderhorn’ ranch priced from only $249,000. Take I-25 north just past 470 to Highway 7, then west three miles to Lowell.
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WHERE: Open house at Anthem Ranch, 2009 ‘Community of the Year,” 10 ranch models on view, new super-affordable ‘Powderhorn’ model. 16583 Las Brisas Dr., Broomfield; I-25 north past 470 to Hwy 7, west 2 mi. to Lowell, left (south) 2 blks to Anthem Ranch, west. (Or from Broomfield, take Lowell n. past Northwest Pkwy.)
PRICE: From $250s; immediate move-ins from low $3s
WHEN: Satruday, Sunday, 9:30 a.m. until 5 p.m.
PHONE: 303-604-5454 WEB: www.delwebb.com/colorado
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