The Highlands, Berkeley & Sloan's Lake

Northwest Denver sits on the bluff above the South Platte River, west of downtown. West Highland and Highlands Square (32nd Avenue and Lowell Boulevard) and Berkeley's Tennyson Street are the retail spines: coffee shops, restaurants, boutiques and a Thursday-night market in Berkeley, surrounded by blocks of 1890s–1920s brick cottages, bungalows and Denver Squares. Over the last two decades, many lots have been rebuilt with contemporary duplexes and row homes, giving these streets an unusually wide mix of eras and styles.

Sloan's Lake, just south, is a 177-acre lake inside a 290-acre park with a 2.5-mile loop and views across the water to the downtown skyline and the Front Range. The Villa Park and West Colfax neighborhoods beyond it, served by the W Line light rail, have seen a wave of new townhome construction near Sloan's Lake and the former St. Anthony hospital site.

Shurie has listed and sold multiple new-construction townhomes on Julian Street in Villa Park, including her current listing at 1031 Julian Street, and has sold on West 35th Avenue in West Highland and Lowell Boulevard in West Colfax.