New Home, Series for Chad Everett

CHAD EVERETT and his wife, Shelby Grant Everett, have put the Spanish-style, Chatsworth home they built in 1971 on the market for $2.85 million and are building a new residence for themselves in Chandler, Ariz.

“I have a picture (‘Heroes Stand Alone’) coming out in June and (a pilot for) a series on ABC, so I’m not getting out of the business,� the actor quickly noted about his move to Arizona. “Assuming the series goes, we’ll be in Florida half the year, so it isn’t necessary to live here.� The series, “Thunderboat Row,� is about hunting drug dealers in Florida.

Everett starred in a number of movies and TV series, including “Medical Center,� “Ironside� and “Route 66.� If the Everetts sell their Chatsworth house--and that’s a big if, he says, “because I really don’t have to sell�--they may look for a smaller place here--�perhaps in Malibu.�

The Everetts’ Chatsworth home is in Monteria Estates, where there are about 60 properties ranging in value from $1.5 million to $12 million. Wrestler Hulk Hogan, former TV anchor Christine Lund and supermarket exec Bernard Gelson also live in the 50-year-old gated community.

Monteria Estates was in the news earlier this month when a question was raised about opening its private road to traffic that will be generated by a $2-billion mixed-use development in nearby Porter Ranch. Some Northridge and Chatsworth residents have called for opening the road, but city officials have minimized chances of that happening.

The Everetts decided to sell their Monteria Estates home, the actor said, because they no longer need such a large place. They built the home when their daughters were small. “They needed all this room for running around then, but they’re both in college now,� he explained.

The 6.7-acre property has stables, a paddock, a tennis court, a swimming pool, a hot tub, a two-bedroom guest house, and a two-story, 6,000-square-foot-plus main house. “The second story is the master bedroom,� he said.

There are also apple, plum, almond, peach and nectarine trees on the site--�I’ll miss the orchards the most.� His Chatsworth home is listed with Kay Cole and Debe Sanford of Douglas Properties, Sherman Oaks, and Sotheby’s International Realty.

His Arizona home is being built on a lake. “There’s room for 25 2-acre estates there,� he said, “but right now, there are only three.� The Everetts will have a 5,200-square-foot house, a four-car garage, a tennis court, a pool, a spa and a bandstand large enough for an eight-piece band.

“And it’s only 20 minutes from Sky Harbor Airport,� he said. “I can fly to my home there quicker than I can drive to Palm Springs.�

Yogi Shimizu, described as owner of the Playboy Club and Spago in Tokyo, has purchased the Bel-Air home of adman JIM WELLER, known for his work on the George Bush presidential campaign and the Joe Isuzu advertising campaign.

Weller helped design the home but got carried away, sources say, and now wants a smaller place for himself, his wife and their small child. The nearly 6,000-square-foot house has six bedrooms and seven baths.

It’s one of several homes owned by Shimizu, who bought it for $2.85 million through his Mundy Hawaii company, the Hawaii franchisee of Tony Roma’s restaurant. Bob Hurwitz of Hurwitz-James Co., a new firm with offices on Wilshire Boulevard, had the $2.9-million listing.

Ed Heron of Merrill Lynch Realty says a couple who just sold their home in Beverly Hills had found a house they liked in the Santa Barbara area when the husband turned to his wife and said, “See, honey, I told you we could find a fixer-upper in Montecito.� The price was $3 million.

Speaking of Santa Barbara, one of the largest transactions there so far this year is the sale of the El Escoral complex, built as apartments in 1970 and later, partially converted to a hotel by Ashkenazy Enterprises.

A Santa Barbara investment group bought the complex, just off the beach, for about $27 million and has plans to convert all of the 312 units to condos. James Celmayster of Merrill Lynch represented Ashkenazy.

If you can take a quick trip to Denver, you can get a peek today( at the 33,000-square-foot mansion Mission Viejo architect Nathan Good designed for his uncle, a Florida builder who has allowed the struggling Denver Symphony to use it as its Show Home of the Year.

The house was designed and built on 7 acres over a five-year period, ending in 1984, at a cost of more than $10 million, but because it’s in the economically depressed Denver suburb of Cherry Hills, Good’s uncle is asking only $6 million for it. The price includes a $500,000 computer-controlled, motorized sculpture as well as 16 baths, an indoor racquetball court, massage and weight rooms, a sauna, sensory deprivation chamber, and two fronton (like jai alai) courts.