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Net-Positive Luxury Estate on Conservation Land

A Residence Sits on a Privately Held Parcel Shaped by Conservation, Agriculture, and Waterways

Article by Emily O'Brien

Photography by Drew Tooley

Originally published in Boulder Lifestyle

The newly completed residence at 4384 N 95th Street is now on the market for $14 million, set within one of Boulder County’s most distinctive residential landscapes: a privately held portion of a former expansive working farm that has been partially preserved through conservation easements and public acquisition.

“It’s really like a land preserve in many ways,” says David Nassar, founder of Nassar Land Company. The original property stretched across more than 1,000 acres and remained under single-family ownership for decades before portions were sold to the City of Boulder for long-term conservation.

Over time, those acquisitions reshaped the land into a layered landscape—part working farm, part conserved open space, and part limited residential enclave. Only four homesites will ever exist inside this amazing, rare Idyllic preserve.  

“The original homestead had two lots, and then the son had two lots,” David says. “And I was fortunate enough to be able to buy two of those lots.”

Today, the landscape remains active as a farm with cattle, horses, and hay production. “It’s a working farm, which is really cool,” David says. “There are beautiful… kind of daisy chain ponds on Boulder Creek that run right through the property.”

Designing in Response to Place

The architecture was shaped in direct response to its setting, with a design inspiration of the West that begins from the land rather than a fixed formal concept. Grade changes, views, and site conditions inform the structure from the outset.

“I try to design the home to the land,” David says. “If the land has certain features or grade changes, that’s going to drive the design.”

That design-build approach extends through every layer of the project. The home is offered fully furnished, with interior design led by his wife, Tracy, as part of a unified process that treats architecture and interiors as a single continuum.

“We’re truly a family business with my wife, two sons, and teammates,” David says. “We oversee everything, every aspect of the home, right down to the furnishings.”

A Language of Materials and Craft
Material choices reinforce that continuity. Interior features include 200-year-old reclaimed oak salvaged from historic Pennsylvania barns, processed and remilled before being used in flooring, cabinetry, and millwork.

“I bring in wood from gorgeous old oak barns that we take down in Pennsylvania…,” David says. “We de-nail, and kiln dry that antique wood, and re-mill it.”

The structure also integrates in-house steel fabrication from his son, Weston Nassar, and mortise-and-tenon timber framing, including mortise-and-tenon joinery produced through CNC-assisted systems, merging traditional craftsmanship with digital precision.

“We have computer-aided design and CNC machinery,” David says. “It’ll cut that mortise-and-tenon joint and ornamental steel perfectly every time.”

At the systems level, the home was engineered for efficiency from the outset, incorporating solar thermal technology and radiant floor heating designed to reduce net energy use under Department of Energy certification standards. The residence carries a net energy rating of -36, meaning it produces more energy than it consumes under its certification model.

For David, that performance is as intentional as the architecture itself. “It’s actually producing more energy than it’s using,” he says.

“That water is permeating through the entire home,” David says about the home’s radiant water system. “It’s what heats the home and the infinity pool.” 

The guiding principle is consistency between land, structure, and use. “I never build the same thing twice,” he says.

NassarLand.com

RiverWalkWP.com

GoodacreProperties.com

"We’re truly a family business with my wife, two sons, and teammates. We oversee everything, every aspect of the home, right down to the furnishings." – David Nassar

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