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After finalizing the sale last Friday, Roger and KelLee Abdella toast being the first new homeowners to close on a new home at Smith Ranch in Silverthorne. The first phase of the town’s workforce housing project is starting to come to fruition, and developers have set their sights on producing 51 more townhomes for the second phase.
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This rendering shows how the second phase of construction will compliment phase one at Smith Ranch in northern Silverthorne. The town is pursuing a large workforce housing neighborhood on the Smith Ranch property.
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Silverthorne is building a roughly 200-unit residential workforce housing project at Smith Ranch, along on Highway 9 in northern Silverthorne.
Special to the Daily / Town of Silverthorne
The sale of the first home at Silverthorne’s Smith Ranch workforce housing neighborhood closed last week, marking a celebratory moment for the new homeowners and the town that’s pursuing the project.
Hoping to chip away at the lack of available housing, Silverthorne has slated over 50 acres acres at Smith Ranch, nestled on the northern end of town, for a new workforce housing neighborhood and selected Compass Homes Development to spearhead the project.
Phase 1 is now starting to come to fruition. The new homeowners, Roger and KelLee Abdella, closed on the first sale last Friday. More closings are slated for the comings weeks, and Silverthorne has already issued at least five certificates of occupancy.
Altogether, the first phase is bringing 27 new townhomes, 17 single-family homes and 16 units in duplexes — a total of 60 new homes — to Silverthorne’s lineup of deed-restricted housing. The homes must be owned and occupied by people who worked at least 30 hours a week in Summit County.
The developer, Blake Shutler, said that all but four of the homes from phase one are already under contract. The remaining ones are all two-bedroom townhomes.
Not content to stop after phase one, the town and developers have started turning some of their attention to phase two. As planned, the second phase would bring another 51 townhomes to Smith Ranch across six four-unit buildings and nine three-unit buildings.
“Phase 1 was a pretty even mix,” said Lina Lesmes, Silverthorne’s planning manager, adding that it only made sense to follow up on the first phase with the townhomes scheduled for phase 2.
For phase 2, the four-unit buildings would each house two two-bedroom units and a pair of three-bedroom townhomes. Meanwhile, seven of the triplex buildings would contain two two-bedroom units and one three-bedroom unit. The other two triplex buildings would house only two-bedroom units.
All of the homes would have rear access and front doors facing either Adams Avenue, Smith Ranch Road or the neighborhood’s green space, positioned at the center of the phase two’s cluster of homes.
Also, all of the three-bedroom units would all come with their own one-car garage, and there would be a three-bedroom home included in lineup that’s being designed for people with disabilities for phase 2, as well.
Altogether, this would make for 111 planned homes in across both phases with a majority of units having garages. The rest of the homes are scheduled for ample surface parking. Plans for phase 2 could be subject to change, Lesmes said, but it’s likely the townhomes produced throughout it will be sold in waves.
Also, the town and developers are planning to follow up on phase two “pretty quickly” with phase three, which could bring in some more single-family duplexes, Lesmes said.
For more, SmithRanchNeighborhood.com.