Where life just comes naturally
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Milner Heights in Langley, home to the new Radius development, incorporates green streets and landscaping with an environmental reserve and nature paths. –HANDOUT ILLUSTRATION
A 1,525-square-foot Radius townhome has 21⁄ finished bathrooms, an open-concept living and dining room, a family room, a patio, backyard and double garage.
The Radius townhomes feature open-concept kitchens with granite countertops and an island and family room.
The 1,525-square-foot Radius townhomes have three bedrooms and there are several floor plans to choose from in the development.
THE FACTS
What: Radius Townhomes at Milner Heights.
Where: 20843 69B Ave., Langley.
developer/builder: Vesta Properties.
Sizes: Three-bedroom townhomes ranging from 1,650 to 2,000 square feet.
Prices: Starting at $329,000.
Open: The presentation centre and show homes are on display Monday to Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday 1 to 5 p.m.
Contact: 604-539-9484; [email protected]
More info: www.milnerheights.ca; www.radius.milnerheights.ca
In Langley, it’s easy being green. Just take a walk in the new Milner Heights neighbourhood, a master-planned “green community” that incorporates “green streets” into its landscape design and eco-friendly technologies into some homes.
The development is already in tune with nature, set as it is on a ridge near an environmental reserve and greenway networks, and incorporating nature paths and a pond on the property.
But it’s really making waves with its green streets innovations — roads are designed to control storm-water volumes and discharge into local streams, and plants and trees have been selected for water conservation and filter run-off.
“We’re on the forefront of enviro-friendly development. People like the idea of being part of a sustainable community,” says Judy Rohatyn, Vesta sales and marketing manager.
“The green street features are quite unique. When people drive in they see that right away. There are lovely streetscapes with indigenous plantings and landscaped boulevards.”
Radius townhomes are the latest offering in the 400-family community. The townhomes — 70 units in all — began presales this month. About a third of the first 16 units have sold. Occupancy begins as early as June 2010. The townhomes range in price from $329,000 to $389,000, plus GST, for three-bedroom units ranging in size from 1,650 to 2,000 square feet.
Rohatyn adds the builder is currently offering a promotional package worth an estimated $4,500 of extras like granite kitchen countertops, upgraded appliances, tile floors and washer and dryer.
A 1,525-square-foot Radius townhome has three bedrooms, 21/2 finished bathrooms, an open-concept living and dining room, and open-concept kitchen with an island and family room, a patio, fenced backyard, foyer and double garage. In the basement, an unfinished room, storage room and roughed-in bathroom provide an additional 427 square feet.
There are several floor plans to choose from: Others offer finished basements with a standard garage and additional outdoor carpark. Three colour schemes are available.
Other homes in the development include the Seasons three- and four-bedroom single-family homes, starting at $489,900, the Prelude rowhomes starting at $409,900, and four-plexes starting at $339,000.
The Seasons and Prelude homes on the 18-hectare property are built with green technologies including low-flow toilets, faucets and showers, Energy Star appliances, halogen and compact fluorescent lighting, and paints and carpet low in volatile organic compounds.
The first of these Milner Heights homes went on sale in July 2008, and 65 families will have moved in by the end of the year.
Rohatyn says Milner Heights, with its mix of single-family homes and town and rowhomes, is attracting a diverse crowd. “We get a range of buyers: empty nesters looking at downsizing, first-time buyers and a lot of young families. It’s a very friendly community close to all the amenities, like good schools and the new Langley Event Centre.”
Buyers aren’t the only ones paying attention to Vesta’s Green Built new developments.
The developer and builder was nominated this year as a finalist for three Georgies, the Canadian Home Builders’ Association of B.C.’s residential real-estate awards. It’s up for Built Green B.C. Builder of the Year, Best Multi-Family Landscape Design and for a Sustainable and Innovative Community Award.
Langley-based Vesta Properties, established in 1989, has built a number of projects in B.C. and Alberta, recently the Provinceton community in Surrey’s Cloverdale neighbourhood and the Augusta and Augusta Walk, also in Cloverdale.
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