Variety of homes in exclusiveBlue Valley schools community

Overland Park’s Coffee Creek Crossing is bustling with builder activity as it nears completion with over a dozen award-winning builders constructing custom-built and speculative homes in this exclusive 165-home upscale community.

The community’s newest and final phase, The Reserve at Coffee Creek, will open later this spring with an enviable selection of just six estate-sized homesites that all back to 50-plus acres of heavily forested Johnson County Park land. Three of the six homesites have already been reserved for custom homes, a testament to the allure and rarity of these picturesque locations.

Coffee Creek Crossing is among the few Johnson County new-home communities that offer the opportunity to build with a wide variety of builders in the Blue Valley School District. Children living at Coffee Creek Crossing attend Blue Valley’s newest and highest tech schools: Timber Creek Elementary, Aubrey Bend Middle School and Southwest High School.

What sets the development apart from other communities is its unmatched diversity of floor plans and builders, said Lily Mantych, who markets Coffee Creek Crossing for Keller Williams Realty Partners. Coffee Creek Crossing is a rare open community, meaning potential residents may bring their own floor plans and their preferred, personally selected builders, with developer approval. This has resulted in an interesting and diverse streetscape, with no two homes alike and all of the homes use stucco, stone, brick or lap siding for the all exterior surfaces. More than a dozen builders are currently actively building in the community.

If potential Coffee Creek residents don’t want to or just can’t wait for a custom home to be built for them, they can currently choose from an array of speculative homes that include two-story, 1 ½-story and reverse floorplan designs. Some of these homes are at the move-in ready stage and others are in various stages of completion, allowing buyers to personalize the tile and paint finishes to fit their preferred tastes.

Prices for homes range from the low $500,000s to the $700,000s. The majority of the homes have four bedrooms and multiple bathrooms, and all feature three-car garages and some even have spacious four-car garages. The developers require that each home have four-sided architecture with all of the homes’ exteriors finished in stucco, brick or stone.

Residents say Coffee Creek Crossing is a special place to live with a serene setting surrounding a central 50 acres of permanent open green space. It truly is a “neighborhood within a park” and offers a wide array of community amenities and easy highway access, being just 1.3 miles west of the 167th Street exit off U.S. 69 highway.

One resident, John Hudson, moved his family to Coffee Creek Crossing six years ago. He and his wife are raising their two grandchildren and he was pleasantly surprised to find many young families with over 180 school-age children living in Coffee Creek Crossing, as well as a number of people in his age bracket.

“We like the activities for the kids. It’s a really active involved community,” he said. “The kids love it. We don’t have concerns about letting the kids go out and play up and down the street or in the open green space. We watch them, but so does everyone else.”

Hudson also enjoys the pastoral views afforded by the rolling terrain and 50 acres of dedicated green space at the heart of the community.

Meeting neighbors in Coffee Creek Crossing is easy, and a variety of social activities are planned throughout the year. Three to four family events are planned in the summer at the community pool and one evening a month the pool is reserved just for adults to swim and use the on-site community barbecue pavilion.

Residents take advantage of the neighborhood amenity complex with a zero-entry heated pool and expansive sunbathing decks; tot lot with jungle gym, play fort and swings with padded safety base; a private community soccer play park and private walking trails to and along Coffee Creek that cascades through the community. A sports court with a full range of available recreational opportunities was added to the community’s amenities last year. This summer a hike/bike trail and pedestrian bridge will be built along the north side of Coffee Creek linking the community to Heritage Park and to Timber Creek Elementary School less than a mile to the west.

Coffee Creek Crossing’s gracious monument entry welcomes residents and visitors with a stunning lighted waterfall and lush landscaping at all entries.

Developers Saul Ellis and Mark Simpson are well-known and respected for their past award-winning luxury community developments that include Hallbrook Farms, Lions- Gate, White Horse, the Iron Horse communities and Brookwood.

This story was originally published April 8, 2016 at 7:07 PM with the headline "Variety of homes in exclusiveBlue Valley schools community."