Photo Updated: 7/19/10

Project Description: Responding to demand for two-bedroom housing, all 47 units to be constructed in this expansion — the first phase in a three-phase, $50 million venture — will be two-bedroom units. Included in this phase will be 24 hybrid homes which is a blend of an apartment and a patio cottage. Like cottages, the hybrid homes will have more than one outside wall, a patio and no corridor leading to its front door. Rather, the entrance will be off a central lobby. Like apartments, they will have a shared hearth room on each floor and a shared community room in each building which will provide for social interaction with neighbors. To provide a higher density model that maintains the best features of a patio home while incorporating the advantages of apartment living, the three-story hybrid households are comprised of under-building parking on the first floor with two floors of six hybrid homes each on the floors above. In addition to the hybrid homes, the first phase will have ten cottage duplexes and one cottage triplex. The entire phase will incorporate numerous green construction facets, such as geothermal heating and cooling, rain water collection and reuse and environmentally sensitive materials. Those green techniques will earn the phase Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification. Completion of this first phase is scheduled for July 2010.

Total Square Feet: 111,747

Architect: RLPS Architects