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A Colorado estate recently hit the market with a list of features similar to a luxury resort.

This property in the wealthy Denver suburb of Cherry Hills Village not only has mountain views, but also has an outdoor living space boasting an in-ground pool, hot tub and spa, water features, fire pits, an outdoor kitchen and plentiful terraces.

Designed by Lynn Harrison of Littleton-based Harrison Custom Builders, the 13,042-square-foot main house built in 2007 has five bedrooms, 10 bathrooms and …

Access Ventures, a Louisville nonprofit, has selected six organizations to help it address a nationwide affordable housing shortage.

The organizations were selected as part of what Access Ventures dubbed the Reconstruct Challenge, a $3 million national prize competition which sought innovative ideas to address the shortage. The six organization will be awarded with $300,000 each and access to an executive education course. Here are the six organizations and what they plan to do:

• Haven Connect…

The speed at which homes across the Charlotte market are selling has slowed during the first half of this year, giving local homebuyers a little more breathing room.

From January to June, homes across the region averaged 47 days on the market before being placed under contract, up 6.8% — or three days longer — than during the first half of 2018. This metric of days on market, or DOM, refers to the number of days between a property's most recent listing on an MLS and when it goes under contract…

Washington Township's real estate industry has been on the rise, with multiple new projects underway.

The township currently has four large scale developments in the works, while two developments have been completed. A key reasoning behind the boost in residential projects is because of the area's community, according to Development Director Ryan Lee.

“We have a strong business community and schools, and a good sense of place which has been created through all of our developments,” he said. “Washington…

It’s that time of year again!

The Business Journal is surveying for this year’s top Real Estate Agents and Teams Lists.

If you think your Residential Real estate agent or team is one of the top sellers on the First Coast, let us know by emailing Junior Skepple at [email protected] to receive the template to submit your information.

Below are last year's Lists:

To shared rides, shared living spaces, and shared workspaces, a Denver startup called venUse would like to add another category — shared commercial space.

“Commercial real estate is so broker-centeric. People just need a place to go to see what is available,” said Jason Shepherd, a co-founder of the new real estate portal.

Shepherd said the only limits are a building owner’s flexibility and renter’s creativity in using the space. Art galleries could host more business gatherings and food truck vendors could inhabit restaurant kitchens after the last diners leave.

There are warehouses that could help carry the holiday crush of inventory on their empty shelves. And corporate board rooms that could host small business gatherings. VenUse also has empty window spaces to host ad displays.

“We are recycling real estate,” Shepherd said.

For example, Black Eye Coffee, in a LoHi building that was built 1888, can be rented out for $150 once it closes its doors at 6 p.m., and it is large enou..

Lakewood City Council voted 11-0 late Monday against rezoning an 11-acre parcel that is home to a 131-year-old farm, effectively blocking an effort by Richmond American Homes to build a 77-home community adjacent to Bear Creek Greenbelt.

Several council members cited the historic value of the Schnell Farm, which was awarded a place on the National Register of Historic Places more than 20 years ago, in voting against the rezoning. It’s likely the farm, barn and outbuildings on the property would have been demolished had the project moved forward.

“I really struggle with the historic part of this,” Mayor Adam Paul said of the property at 3113 S. Wadsworth.

Councilwoman Dana Gutwein was also bothered by the potential loss of a piece of the city’s history.

“I have concerns you can take down historic sites and there’s no protection,” she said.

The National Register of Historic Places designation does not confer any protection on a building and Lakewood’s historic landmarking program, w..

City leaders in Lakewood grappled Monday with the gritty details of putting into place an annual housing cap that voters in the city recently passed as part of an effort to slow the metro area’s explosive growth in one of its largest suburbs.

The discussion, held during a City Council study session, touched on how affordable housing and senior housing would be treated under the ordinance while the council also debated exactly what portions of Colorado’s fifth-largest city would be subject to the limitations of Question 200, which restricts construction of new homes and apartments each year to no more than 1% of the existing housing stock in the city.

Additionally, projects exceeding 40 units have to get specific approval from City Council, according to the measure passed at a July 2 special election.

Much of the focus Monday was on language in Question 200 that exempts blighted areas in Lakewood from the new home limits. One map presented at the meeting showed that nearly half the c..

LAKEWOOD — Schnell Farm, tucked away in a shady grove of trees off of busy Wadsworth Boulevard, contains some of the oldest remaining buildings in this city — if not the entire metro area.

The farm, established just a dozen years after Colorado received statehood in 1876, was awarded a place on the National Register of Historic Places more than 20 years ago.

And soon it may be gone.

Homebuilder Richmond American Homes wants to put 77 single-family houses on the 11-acre site at the southeast corner of the Bear Creek Greenbelt. And there isn’t room to keep the farmhouse, barn and other outbuildings that Fred Schnell established in 1888, when he received a one-eighth interest in the Hodgson Ditch that helped grow the vast farm fields west of Denver.

The looming loss of the area’s agrarian past — which once produced wheat, oats, barley, potatoes and sugar beets — has neighbors worked up and David Wiechman, president of the Lakewood Historical Society, worried.

“If you don’t preserve y..

Former Rockies manager Walt Weiss is selling his Castle Rock mansion that comes complete with a baseball diamond in the backyard and an indoor hitting cage. It can be yours for… $2 million.

That’s the listing price of the 10,668-square-foot home featuring six beds, six full bathrooms, two half baths, a heated pool, a hot tub, batting cage and a basketball court on a 35-acre lot. It recently went on the market Aug. 7 and is located in a gated community just west of scenic Castlewood Canyon State Park.

Weiss, who’s been the bench coach for the Braves the past couple of seasons, managed Colorado from 2013-16 while compiling a record of 283-365 (.437). A 14-year big-league veteran, the former shortstop coached at Regis Jesuit High School prior to managing in LoDo. He also played for Colorado from 1994-97, and was the 1988 American League rookie of the year with Oakland.

Over the years Weiss has lived at the Castle Rock property he’s been known to invite local players he knows out to his..