Street of Dreams draws lookers, buyers

One house is sold and others reportedly are on the way after more than 25,000 people visited the Street of Dreams home show in Liberty Lake last month.

The nationally-produced show attracted about 500 people each weekday and 1,000 for every weekend day during its six-week run, said Brian Michaelson, a sales consultant for Legacy Ridge, the housing development that hosted the home show.

Bryan Ashbaugh, CEO of Street of Dreams, Inc., said, “We were very pleased, it was a very successful show.” He added that he was “extremely impressed at the quality of the show homes and the diversity of the architecture. Spokane is in no way behind the rest of the country in quality of construction.”

The show attracted visitors to tour six custom-built homes that ranged in price from $1.6 million to $2.5 million. The homes were situated on top of a hill overlooking the Liberty Lake area.

Several people have expressed serious interest in the homes, Michaelson said. House No. 6, called “The Artisan,” sold during the event.

Spokane’s numbers were lower than comparable Street of Dreams shows elsewhere this year; in Atlanta, the event attracted 42,000 people and one in Sacramento drew 30,000 people.

However, the Spokane show saw a greater percentage of its population visit, Ashbaugh said.

“Spokane is probably the smallest city we’ve done a Street of Dreams at,” he said. “We would love to come back if we can find another site that’s as attractive.”

Ashbaugh said he would set the dates of the show a month earlier to avoid some of the relentless Spokane summer heat. He also said the setting for the show was fantastic.

“The site was extremely gorgeous,” he said. “The setting was spectacular on top of the hills.”