Luxury Real Estate

DENVER – Nina O’Kelley, a leading broker associate with Kentwood City Properties, has announced the annual LoDo Loft Tour scheduled for Sunday, July 19, 2009 to benefit Family HomeStead’s Back-to-School project. Family HomeStead is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping homeless families get back on their feet by providing housing and case management. The tour in the Lower Downtown Historic District runs from 2-5 p.m. and light refreshments will be served at each loft.

All the lofts showcased on the tour are located along Wynkoop Street, including a two-story penthouse at The Ice House at 1801 Wynkoop. This stylish residence includes a cool spiral staircase and two terraces. A three-story penthouse with a roof-top deck overlooking Union Station in the Wynkoop Mercantile building is also featured at 1792 Wynkoop.

Loft tourists will enjoy viewing a totally remodeled loft in the historic Street Car Stables at 1720 Wynkoop, plus a gorgeous condominium in the newly-built Wynkoop Residences at 1411 Wynkoop.

“Remember getting new shoes and a special backpack for that first day back at school?” asks O’Kelley. “Volunteers make this happen for the Family HomeStead children. We encourage tour participants to bring school supplies or make a cash donation to Family HomeStead. Supplies may include backpacks, No. 2 pencils and colored pencils, pencil sharpeners, pens, and both wide and narrow-tip markers. You may contribute erasers, crayons, two-pocket folders, marble covered composition notebooks, and spiral notebooks. Other items include three-ring binders, notebook paper and dividers, graph paper, glue sticks, scissors, dictionaries, calculators, compass and protractors, a supply bag, and more. This is an extremely worthy cause and your contributions will give needy children a head-start when school resumes in late summer.”

To adopt a family and outfit children for school, contact Family HomeStead’s Judy Mugler at 303-623-6514. If you can’t make the tour but wish to make a tax-deductible contribution, send checks payable to HomeSteaders to 1ST Bank, attn: Shannon Jones, Sr. VP, 370 17th St., Denver, CO 80202. To join HomeSteaders, contact Mary Ann Wadas at 303-825-0969.

For more information on the Loft Tour, contact Nina O’Kelley of Kentwood City Properties and incoming president of HomeSteaders at 303-478-6703, or send an email to Nina at nina@kentwoodcity.com.

Kentwood City Properties, formed in 1999, is the newest member of The Kentwood Companies, known nationally as Denver’s premier real estate company. The company’s street-front office at the corner of 17^th and Wynkoop streets, directly across the street from Union Station, is comprised of nearly 50 of metro Denver’s most experienced real estate professionals serving residential buyers, sellers, and developers. For more information phone 303-820-CITY (2489), and visit online at www.kentwoodcity.com.

The Kentwood Companies is comprised of Kentwood City Properties, The Kentwood Company at Cherry Creek, and The Kentwood Company in the Denver Tech Center. View all Kentwood listings at www.DenverRealEstate.com.