Rachel and Jeff LePera will have been married exactly two years when they close on their 3,100-sq.-ft. home in Stapleton this week. They filled those months looking at 20 houses in Wash Park and other trendy areas, while Jeff’s Realtor-dad Rick LePera viewed another 80. But you can visit a grand opening of the model that, once they saw it, was love at first sight.
Rachel and Jeff LePera in Infinity Home Collection’s new Carmel model home at Balboa at Stapleton. The couple will close on their own version of the plan later this week.

“It was a no brainer,” said Rachel LePera, who stopped by the new ‘Carmel’ model in Balboa at Stapleton, that’s become Infinity Home Collection’s fastest selling home. During their home search, the couple made a can’t-do-without checklist: great kitchen, usable outdoor space, finished basement for entertaining, and room for her baby grand piano. She had something else that she shares with many other younger buyers gravitating toward new-urban neighborhoods: a taste for modern, contemporary styling with wide open living spaces.
That fit like a glove with Infinity’s designs at Balboa, off 29th Avenue four blocks east of Stapleton Town Center, close to where Infinity had its successful Sky Terrace collection…more expensive. “Younger buyers kept coming in, telling us that they wanted this look, but in a single-family detached home at a lower price,” recalls Infinity General Manager Dave Steinke. “We trusted what we learned from those people.”
You can see how that came together in this Carmel plan that the LePeras bought. It has an open living-dining-kitchen area, with a study beyond where the piano is headed; and three bedrooms (including a luxury master with big walk-in), a loft and upstairs laundry. Infinity is finishing the basement ‘man-cave’ style for Jeff…with a wet bar, plus a guest bedroom suite, bringing the space to 3,100 feet.
The LePeras fit a profile of new-urban buyers committed to city living: She’s a dentist in Parker, but picked Stapleton over the suburbs; he supplies equipment to hospitals and medical research campuses nearby. Both also decided early on that they didn’t want the size limitation and maintenance hassles that go with older houses. “We don’t want to have to work on our house every weekend,” says Rachel LePera. “This is more of a long-term plan for us.”
Working into that plan is Balboa’s close proximity to Town Center and its shops and eateries (they’ve already been to Casey’s Bistro a few times) as well as schools, new library, and a pool/rec center coming soon to Stapleton’s vast Central Park. Take 29th east thru Stapleton’s Town Center, four blocks to Trenton and left.
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WHERE: Balboa at Stapleton by Infinity Home Collection, ‘Carmel’ model grand opening today, contemporary single-family designs 1,727-3,100 s.f. E. 29th Ave at Trenton, Stapleton; take 29th Ave. east thru Stapleton’s Town Center, 4 blks to Trenton, left.

PRICE: From $439,900 WHEN: Daily, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
PHONE: 303-316-0730 WEB: www.InfinityHomeCollection.com

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