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Blog Post Feb 22, 2016The MPC! It’s Back – and Better Than Ever
Recently IDEAS magazine, published by the National Association of Home Builders, featured an article on the return of the Master Planned Community. Here’s a link. I got excited reading about the possibilities. While Western Washington has not seen the kind of MPC development Southern California has, often the results here have been very encouraging. Back in 2002 and 2003, when…Read More -
project Sep 11, 2015Story Telling at Issaquah Highlands
No one can tell a story better than a happy homeowner. For the past 12 years, Highlands People have been convincing other people to come live in the Northwest’s most successful master planned community. Challenges: Issaquah Highlands was the largest Master Planned Community of its era in the Puget Sound Market. The general public, the home buying public,…Read More - Blog Post Jan 10, 2008
A High Point for Sustainable Redevelopment
First published September 1, 2006 in Environmental Design + Construction magazine Atop a ridge overlooking Seattle’s downtown skyline, Elliot Bay and the Cascade Mountain range, sits the West Seattle neighborhood of High Point. Until recently, it was clearly one of the low points among the city’s 21 neighborhoods. More than 700 subsidized housing units in mostly dilapidated barracks-style buildings dotted…Read More