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DPZ’s latest take on traditional neighborhood design exemplifies what the land planning gurus have learned since Seaside.
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A big builder perfects its entry-level pitch and beats the odds.
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One bit of good news that came out of last week's fires in Southern California is that fire officials determined that at least five master planned communities in San Diego County's Rancho Santa Fe area survived because builders used a fire-protection program known as shelter-in-place...
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As evidence the luxury-home market is as popular overseas as it is in the U.S., Chinese developers are building the largest residential master plan communities Beijing has seen in many years. The project, Majestic Mansion, is being developed in four phases and the first 67 units will be completed...
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Move over, Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer. The names that have lent bragging rights to many an upscale golf community are about to see some stiff competition. In March, Lake City, Fla.–based developer Bradley Dicks broke ground on The Oaks, a 1,222-acre parcel slated to become the world's first...
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At first glance, you wouldn't peg the 132 residences of Victoria Green in Hercules, Calif., as affordable rental housing. With their deep overhangs, hipped roofs, and crisp fretwork, they look too pretty. And with their panoramic views of the San Francisco Bay, one might easily assume these coastal...
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Talk about a community that has it all. High Point, Seattle's first neighborhood to merge sustainable design with social conscience, is a 120-acre HUD Hope VI project that replaces, in the words of a Seattle Times editorial, “a hideous old public housing project of barracks-like structures” that...
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This spring, two Florida-based developer-partners plan to start selling finished lots to builders for Horizon, the most ambitious post-Katrina redevelopment project in Mississippi to date, and one of the largest master planned communities currently in the works nationwide.
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The story of La Costa illustrates the difficulties of development in a hot market such as San Diego and the mixed blessing it can be for builders.
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Golf, formerly a must-have amenity in master planned communities, has landed in the rough.
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The active adult development community eagerly anticipated The Mews. Research among local consumers by Goswick Communications, based in Houston, found not only a desire for a variety of housing types in various smaller-scaled neighborhoods but also a strong desire for a gate-guarded community.
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Seven developers who got creative in overcoming development obstacles.
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At The Pinehills, a 3,060-acre, master planned community in Plymouth, Mass., nothing was overlooked. According to Green, these quality touches are more costly in terms of time than money.
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At Murphy Farms, a master planned community in the Dallas suburbs, the upstairs master bedroom has become a thing of the past. "[These buyers] don't necessarily want to be segmented or categorized in how they live," says Jeff Kingsbury, vice president of sales and marketing at McStain Neighborhoods...
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When BUILDER surveyed providers and buyers of community intranets, we found that while fees for large master planned communities are fairly consistent, providers differ in how they slice costs, what they include, and whether they provide hosting. Playa Vista, a 1,000-acre development near Los...
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Terrabrook, a nationwide master planned community developer headquartered in Dallas, has committed to putting an intranet in every new community. The first one went live at the Vista Lakes community near Orlando, Fla., on Oct. 15, 2002. Six more are planned this year. This level of commitment from...
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The notion of what constitutes a master planned community has evolved tremendously in recent years.