Site next to mature neighborhoods available for building custom homes

BOULDER — In a city that’s long on open space but short on open land for new development, the developing Trailhead community in Boulder offers residents the opportunity to build a custom home without having to demolish an existing one.

The property is located along 4th Street between Mapleton Avenue and Alpine Avenue. It borders the far west end of the historic Mapleton Hill neighborhood and the south side of the Newlands neighborhood and sits at the foot of the Foothills, just south of the popular Mount Sanitas trailhead from which it takes its name.

The former site of the Boulder…