If you’re looking for a romantic dining spot for Saturday night, you’re too late for a table at Bon Ami Bistro at east Alameda Avenue and Pennsylvania Street in West Wash Park — already booked up for Valentine’s evening.

If, however, it’s a romantic bedroom suite you’re after, you can tour that Sunday, two blocks south.

Agents Hannah and Kent Lord with Lokation Real Estate have 501 S. Washington Street on the market, a short walk from Bon Ami and six other dining spots, five blocks from the park. It’s closer still to Candlelight Tavern Cocktails on Pearl Street and to the seller’s favorite coffee shop, Wash Perk on Emerson.

PRIMARY ON OWN LEVEL

The home has already been pushed up from a bungalow into a 2,000-square-foot pop-the-top, with an upstairs level entirely devoted to the primary suite and bath.

There’s added space beyond that within enclosed front-and-back porches, for another 500 feet or so, according to Hannah Lord. She notes that along with its pop-top makeover, the home was extensively remodeled, showing a newer kitchen in white cabinets, new backsplash, and stainless steel appliances.

One the alley there’s a single-car garage, along with a paved pad for two more cars. With dry weather in the news, she notes that the yard is xeriscaped, with a fenced-in astroturf backyard.

The price is $999,999. That’s well beyond what West Wash Park was fetching even a decade ago. However, a look at the Zillow map shows three competing listings from just over a million to one at $2.95 million — a block further from the park — and a single-bath duplex well to the south at $505,000.

Across the park in Wash Park proper, with its south Gaylord Street shopping block, a dozen listings currently show from $1.3 to $ 9 million, plus a 2-bedroom on south University Boulevard at $900,000.

The Washington Street home has been on the market for one month, well below the current average hangtime in this neighborhood of 49 days for a typical sale.

Meanwhile, Lord said that the home has already had 15 showings and has come close to a purchase a couple of times, with buyers holding back on whether they would want a primary suite on the upstairs, with their young kids situated in the two, large bedrooms on the main level.

But her seller, who is making a job move to Florida, managed to accommodate that dilemma and has loved the house, she said.

NEW PRICE REPORT

“It’s a cute place,” Lord added, while acknowledging that it’s a tough market, particularly for younger buyers wanting to get their own romantic piece of this scene.

A newly released report issued Wednesday by the Colorado Association of Realtors shows a median-priced home in the 7-county Denver area, including townhomes and condos, at $565,000 — off only slightly from a year ago. As spring approaches, the number of new listings coming on the market last month were up only 2% over 2025, and sales in the metro area are actually down 14.6% year-over-year.

Lord will have the home open this Sunday, Feb. 15, from noon until 2 p.m.

OPEN HOUSE:

WHERE:  501 S. Washington Street, Denver; from south Broadway or south Lincoln Street, take east Alameda Avenue east six blocks to south Washington and turn south two blocks.

SIZE: 4-bedroom/2 bath, 2,014 square feet.

PRICE: $999,999  

OPEN:  noon-2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 15. 

AGENT:  Kent & Hannah Lord, 303-827-9121.