John Rebchook is a former Rocky Mountain News reporter with more than 30 years of experience in writing and communications... Much has been made that Mike Shanahan’s former house in Cherry Hills is on the market for $17 million. That is a pretty penny by anyone’s calculation, but it is not the most expensive home on the market in the Denver area today.
That honor may belong to the 23,000-square-foot home that sits on more than three acres in Cherry Hills Village. That home is on the market for $17.9 million. When I wrote about the home in 2006 at the Rocky Mountain News, it was listed at $20 million, the most expensive home listed at the time.
The $2.1 million drop in the asking price for the home, owned by cable TV pioneer Gene Schneider, according to public records, equates to a 10.5 percent drop in price.
In addition to 23,000 square feet of space, you get a home “with rich Italian, Mediterranean and French influences,” according to the Web site on the home created by the listing agent, Luisa Staerkel of the Kentwood Co. It has its own master bedroom wing that includes built-in cabinets and wet bar, hickory floors, alder detailed ceilings and cabinets, and French doors leading to a private terrace, just to name a few features. The kitchen has knotty alder wood, a center island with a Gaggenau cooktop and grill (I don’t know what that is, but it sounds expensive) , a separate eating bar, two Thermador stay fresh doors, a Thermador double oven, a Sub-Zero refrigerator, a Miele dishwasher, and even a secretary desk and work area.
There also is a game room, library, sun room and pool and cabana.
