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Silverthorne, CO Real Estate News

By Meredith Hanson
(Coldwell Banker Colorado Rockies Real Estate)
This is the first in a series about the different neighborhoods in and near Silverthorne.  Mesa Cortina is actually not in the Town of Silverthorne, but in unincorporated Summit County.  Most residents use the Silverthorne post office and it is in the Silverthorne area in our MLS system.  Mesa Cortina consists of three different subdivisions, Mesa Cortina West, Mesa Cortina Sub, and Cortina.  There is also a new subdivision nearby called Cortina Ridge, but it has its own homeowners association and is not considered part of Mesa Cortina. The neighborhood consists of roughly 250 homesites.  Mesa Cortina West, toward the bottom of the hill, was the first part to be developed.  Some of the homes were built in the 1970s as mountain getaways for people living in Denver.  Over time, those litt...
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By Joanne Hanson, Summit County, Colorado Realtor
(Coldwell Banker Colorado Rockies Real Estate)
The Pine Beetle has devastated our forests in Summit County and many Silverthorne, Frisco and Breckenridge homes have felt the effects as one after another, trees have died.  I have experienced it first hand, as my home in Mesa Cortina, which backs to Forest Service land, has been in the thick of it.  The beetle hit Grand County first and have been moving south.  Currently, most of the lodgepole pines in the forest around the Silverthorne area  are brown, and more will turn brown next year as the beetle infest new trees when they fly in July.  Our neighborhood has been diligent about spraying and taking out infected trees, but it is almost useless as there are so many beetle.  The best we can do is cut down dead trees to reduce the fire danger. Frisco is being hit as the beetle are movi...
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By Joanne Hanson, Summit County, Colorado Realtor
(Coldwell Banker Colorado Rockies Real Estate)
Our house backs to forest service land and we have owned it for aobut 13 years.  Summit County is 80% public lands which doesn't leave much space for development.  As a result, it is almost impossible to find lots that are larger than 1/2 acre.  That is what we have, and we bought where we did because of the forest service land behind us.  We feel like we have five or ten acres, even if we don't.  An added benefit is the wildlife that we see.  Two summers ago I watched fox babies (known as kits) as they played in a neighbor's driveway. It is a vacation home and the owners are not there very much. Last year I watched another fox family that went from two kits to one.  Their den was too much out in the open and I think a predator of some sort got one.  This season they are not using it.  ...
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By Meredith Hanson
(Coldwell Banker Colorado Rockies Real Estate)
Silverthorne began its life in the 1960s and 1970s as a place for the workers who were building the Eisenhower tunnel to live. According to the Colorado Department of Transportation website, the Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnels were designed as "twin bores".  Construction on the first bore (North Tunnel) began March 15, 1968 and was completed five years later on March 8, 1973.  This westbound bore was originally called the Straight Creek Tunnel, and later was officially named the Eisenhower Memorial Bore.  Construction on the second bore (South Tunnel) began August 18, 1975 and was completed four years later on December 21, 1979.  This eastbound bore was named after Edwin C. Johnson, a past Governor and U.S. Senator who had actively supported an interstate highway system across Color...
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By Ken & Mary Deshaies
(SnowHome Properties)
We watch indicators.  Some are remote, some sort of global, and others very specific.  On the specific side, the traffic to our own office gives us a indication of what might be happening in our market in general.  (Of course, it may just be a weather vane for how successful we might be, but . . . .)  In the past couple of weeks, our traffic has been way up.  Not only more buyers, but we've just aded half a dozen new listings.  And it doesn't show any signs of abating.  From $200k condos to $1.4 million dollar homes, they are coming in.  Now, we go into high gear, getting the information out to our friends, prospects, associates and the world at large.  If we're successful, of course, our inventory will go down.  Oh, unless the sellers keep marching in.  But, that's life in the high cou...
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