Thursday, September 07, 2006

Antelope Ridge Wins Four 2006 Parade of Homes Awards

BaseCamp Development LLC, a BaseCamp Capital portfolio company, recently announced that it has won four awards for its entry in the 2006 Housing and Building Association of Colorado Springs annual Parade of Homes, the Eagle Mountain. The Eagle Mountain is located in Antelope Ridge, a new home community at Barnes and Marksheffel roads in El Paso County, developed by BaseCamp Development.

The Eagle Mountain took the Industry Award of Excellence for Best Master Suite, Best Architectural Exterior, and Best Value. The Industry Awards of Excellence were judged by panel of judges from Boulder, Pueblo and Denver and included home builders, architects and interior designers. Categories included Best kitchen, best master suite, best interior design, best floor plan, best architectural exterior, best landscaping and best value. The Eagle Mountain also won the coveted People’s Choice award in its price category of sales price less than $200,000.

The Eagle Mountain is a 2 bedroom, 2 bath home with attached two-car garage, priced for sale at $165,900. Special features for the parade home included ceramic floors, maple cabinetry, on-demand hot water heater, custom lighting, metal tile ceiling accents, and granite counter tops. Custom landscaping by Robertson’s Landscaping made use of a bubbling rock fountain, shrubbery, vines, flowers and trees around a raised deck and flagstone patio area. The home is a modular home on a crawl space, built by Summit Crest Homes Division of Berthoud, Colorado, and assembled and finished onsite at Antelope Ridge.

This year was the sixth entry into the Parade of Homes for BaseCamp Development’s Antelope Ridge community, and the home builder has won numerous awards each year it has entered.

The parade of homes is produced by Housing and Building Association of Colorado Springs, which has more than 900 member home-building companies and affiliated business. The 2006 Parade was the association's 52nd continuous parade (oldest in the nation of continuous parades) and included 46 homes, representing 32 builders, ranging in price from $156,000 to $3 million, located in two main sites and individual scattered sites, including in Teller County. Attendance at all sites totaled more than 20,000 people. The parade ran August 4 through August 20.

Antelope Ridge is the Pikes Peak Region’s only leasehold estate community. Prices for new modular homes start at $122,900. Antelope Ridge sells ranch homes exclusively from 2 to 4 bedrooms, all with two-car attached garage, full landscaping packing including sprinkler system, all kitchen appliances, deck and window coverings. It is an all-ages community. Residents have use of a community clubhouse, heated swimming pools, office center, fitness center, play ground and banquet facilities. For information visit the sales center, open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. The sales office is at 4102 Gray Fox Heights, and may be reached at 573-1200 or visit the web site: www.anteloperidgehomes.com.

About BaseCamp Development LLC
BaseCamp Development and BaseCamp Communities provide affordable housing solutions for the land-lease, land-home, specialty mountain resort and urban infill markets of Colorado. Using such techniques as off-site construction, the company is able to rapidly deliver high quality housing stock within a time-window and price point which is unmatched by traditional builders. More information is available at www.qualityaffordableliving.com.