After multiple different landowners and grading and infrastructure work that started years ago, sales of homes will open soon for the residential development formerly known as Overlook Park.

JSM Builders in Steamboat Springs is now the exclusive general contractor for the homes in the 70-acre neighborhood that has been renamed The Glen, explained Jeremy MacGray, president, and Brian Heit, vice president at JSM. The city permitting for the third and final phase of infrastructure work was approved last week, MacGray said, and city trucks already are maintaining the new streets during snowfall.

Construction of foundations is planned to start in January for the first phase of homes.

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“Our plan is to build out the neighborhood over the next seven years starting with 20 of the Park Village lots this year,” MacGray said. “Homes will be between 1,700 and 1,900 square feet in this first phase with two-car garages. Pricing will be announced in January.”

During a visit to the site Wednesday, MacGray and Heit said The Glen neighborhood will be comparable to the Sunlight neighborhood in north Steamboat, where the company also has built multiple homes since 2018.

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JSM began in 1998 as a small construction company and has grown to 22 full-time employees. The construction company utilizes local subcontractors and also constructed the Urban Street neighborhood of townhomes and condos off Walton Creek Road in Steamboat.

The Glen sits between the land for proposed Brown Ranch abutting on the west and the neighborhoods of West Acres Mobile Home Park and West End Village on the east. A new road connection has been built between The Glen and West End Village, but the main entrance to The Glen is Gossard Parkway off Downhill Drive.

A third, emergency-only exit road ties into U.S. Highway 40 near the Steamboat Springs KOA.

The neighborhood includes 139 home lots for 130 single-family homes and nine duplexes as well as a 4.5-acre commercially zoned parcel for a yet-to-be determined use. That 4.5-acre lot located near West Acres Mobile Home Park may be developed as townhomes or an apartment complex, the business partners said.

The overall neighborhood also includes a 2-acre park of greenspace around a retention pond.

The Glen neighborhood will be built out in three phases with three smaller neighborhoods starting with Park Village in the middle of the acreage with 60 homes on 0.15-acre lots. Phase 2 is Hillside to the north with 40 lots, and Overlook Preserve is on an elevated section to the south that will feature larger homes up to 3,000 square feet on 0.3-acre lots.

The builders said the name Overlook Preserve is an homage to the original name for the area that dates back many years.

MacGray believes The Glen is the last residentially zoned large neighborhood to be developed inside Steamboat Springs city limits. The homes will not be deed-restricted and will be priced at free-market rates.

“We would love to see families here,” said Heit, a father of two.

One of the interesting steps for builders of a new neighborhood is proposing street names, so Heit honored his children with a street called Will’s Way for his son and Bellview Drive for his daughter Annabelle.

MacGray, a father of four, said neighborhood students are designated to attend Sleeping Giant School to the west. He noted the neighborhood is in a red zone that does not allow short-term rentals and that some lots would be allowed to have an accessory dwelling unit.

In October, MacGray and Heit as independent investors bought 60 housing lots in the former Overlook Park from land developer and owner Ken Marsh of Lone Tree Trust, which has been owner for about three years. The business partners say they plan to eventually purchase the entire property, and JSM Builders will be the exclusive general contractor for the purchased lots.

Developer Marsh purchased the project from Bob Zibell and Tony Emerson from Topeka, Kansas. Emerson left his mark on the neighborhood with a street called Emerson Trail. Steamboat Springs Principal Planner Bob Keenan said the first subdivision development plan for the land was approved by the city in 2011.

Marsh and Lone Tree Trust, which has residential properties in multiple Colorado mountain communities, also is the land developer for the ongoing Mid Valley housing project for Yampa Valley Housing Authority.

More information on The Glen residential development will be available online Dec. 20 at TheGlenSteamboat.com. The selling agents are Charis Petty and Cindy MacGray at Steamboat Real Estate Professionals.