Michael Mintz This is Me

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1. 1. Business - The Coloradoan - www.coloradoan.com

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   Published on: 4/15/2005   Last Visited: 4/15/2005

   Fort Collins developer Michael Mintz will break ground in about a month on a $33 million residential development behind the Home Depot on the south side of the city.
   
   The 300,000-square-foot development will be built on about 11 acres just north of the northeast corner of Harmony Road and JFK Parkway, said Mintz, operating partner for Fort Collins-based Far Hills Development.
   
   The development, called Settler's Creek, will include eight 35,000-square-foot buildings with a total of 231 condominiums.
   
   Condos will range in size from about 925 square feet to 1,275 square feet, with sale prices ranging from $130,000 to $170,000, said Mintz.
   
   The development also will have about 3,000 square feet of commercial space that likely will be leased to coffee bars, sandwich shops and other retailers.
   
   Settler's Creek also will have a 7,500-square-foot clubhouse that will include a media center, conference room and other amenities.
   
   Two units will be designed as bed-and-breakfast suites that residents can rent for overnight guests, said Mintz.
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   Each phase will take up to eight months to build, said Mintz.
   
   "What we're trying to do is make a multigenerational development for all ages," he said.
   
   Far Hills Development is under contract to buy the land from the West family of Fort Collins, and Mintz said he expects to close in the next several weeks.
   
   While he wouldn't disclose the price of the land, Goodwill Industries, which is developing close to the site, paid about $1.6 million for about seven acres.

2. 2. Business - The Coloradoan - www.coloradoan.com

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   Published on: 4/15/2005   Last Visited: 4/16/2005

   Fort Collins developer Michael Mintz will break ground in about a month on a $33 million residential development behind the Home Depot on the south side of the city.
   
   The 300,000-square-foot development will be built on about 11 acres just north of the northeast corner of Harmony Road and JFK Parkway, said Mintz, operating partner for Fort Collins-based Far Hills Development.
   
   The development, called Settler's Creek, will include eight 35,000-square-foot buildings with a total of 231 condominiums.
   
   Condos will range in size from about 925 square feet to 1,275 square feet, with sale prices ranging from $130,000 to $170,000, said Mintz.
   
   The development also will have about 3,000 square feet of commercial space that likely will be leased to coffee bars, sandwich shops and other retailers.
   
   Settler's Creek also will have a 7,500-square-foot clubhouse that will include a media center, conference room and other amenities.
   
   Two units will be designed as bed-and-breakfast suites that residents can rent for overnight guests, said Mintz.
   ...
   Each phase will take up to eight months to build, said Mintz.
   
   "What we're trying to do is make a multigenerational development for all ages," he said.
   
   Far Hills Development is under contract to buy the land from the West family of Fort Collins, and Mintz said he expects to close in the next several weeks.
   
   While he wouldn't disclose the price of the land, Goodwill Industries, which is developing close to the site, paid about $1.6 million for about seven acres.

3. 3. www.dailyrecord.com - Where We Live - Part 3

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   Published on: 9/30/2002   Last Visited: 9/30/2002

   Michael Mintz, a developer who builds commercial buildings and high-end homes, recently moved into a 7,000-square-foot house in Peapack that he built as a model. He said he wanted to create something that didn't look like all the other homes being built in the area, so it's sort of an anti-McMansion.
   
   "A lot of people are looking to see how much house they can buy per square foot," Mintz said. "This is something different."
   
   The entrance has a floor made of Colorado Buff, a stone that contains fossilized impressions of ferns. Mintz said the floor, which he purchased from a Colorado company, cost about the same as some marble - about $7 per square foot. Some of the walls are made of Amish Country Fieldstone, stones that once sat on an ocean floor and have seashells embedded in them. The circular staircase from the foyer is set in a turret and has a wrought iron railing. The exterior is stucco, with wood and stone trim. The formal living room is dominated by oak beams and posts.
   
   There also are some unusual technological touches - such as a radiant heating system that uses hot water circulating through plastic tubes in the floors.
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   The tubes are set in a mixture of gypsum and concrete that helps to radiate heat evenly, Mintz said. The heating system adds about $100,000 to the cost of construction, he said.
   
   Mintz wouldn't say how much it cost to build, but said he plans to build a similar house next door to be sold for more than $4 million. He said he put the master bedroom suite on the first floor of his house because he expects that to become a trend for certain buyers.
   
   "It's for the empty-nester," Mintz said, adding that aging baby boomers, the next expected wave of buyers, might use just the first floor of the house once their children leave home.
   
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   Several years ago, Mintz said, he offered 2,800-square-foot homes with a lot of detailed work. They weren't selling as fast as he'd hoped, so he converted the rest of that project to what he called small McMansions, which sold quickly.
   
   "People were less interested in style and more interested in square footage," Mintz said.
   
   "We gave the people what they wanted. If we had done that from the beginning, we would have made more money."
   
   Several developers said many people are spending more time at home, either telecommuting or watching a movie with their families in a home theater. They are looking for big homes as a reward for working hard.