The CS Business Journal just ran a story on a home we’re building this year: a luxury home behind the Broadmoor Hotel we’re calling “The Overlook Retreat.” The home is being built on a lot in an historic neighborhood called “The Overlook Colony.” The original house was built in 1913, but burned down in 2003 and the land has sat vacant ever since. We bought the land last year and will be putting a new home on it that we’ll use as a model home. Here’s an excerpt:

Andy Stauffer couldn’t sleep. A friend had been trying for years to convince Stauffer to purchase a 16,000-square-foot residential lot on Laura Road, neighboring Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. It was 1 a.m. and Stauffer, president and founder of Stauffer & Sons Construction, hadn’t thought about the property in some time. But for some reason on this night he was stirred from his slumber, his gut the source of his insomnia. It was telling him that now was the time. “It had percolated and stewed,” he said. “It was meant to be.”

Read the article here.