Wheat Ridge housing project to take communal approach: shared spaces, meals and even snow removal
When it comes to cohousing, a development model pioneered in Scandinavia, Colorado is a national leader. And Wheat Ridge is on track to become the latest city in the state to join the club.
“The more you share, the more your life is successful,” said Bryan Bowen, a principal architect with Caddis Collaborative, expressing the sentiment behind cohousing and a new community he is designing called Blue Columbine Cohousing.
Bowen has designed more than 20 cohousing communities in Colorado and other states, drawing on more than 15 years of experience living in one. And if the concept can be summed up in a few words, it is that life is better lived in a close-knit community.
Blue Columbine Cohousing plans to offer 39 for-sale homes on three-plus acres once occupied by two former farmsteads on the north side of 44th Avenue, just across the street from Prospect Park. The homes will range from 770 square feet to 2,000 square feet and range in price from around $476,000 to $1.2 million.
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