Home Sales Begin for New Grove Neighborhood in Grow Community

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, WA. 6.30.14 – Advance reservations are now underway for Grow Community 2, a sustainable, solar-powered community on Bainbridge Island.

Grow Community’s latest phase will bring two new neighborhoods, the Grove and the Park, featuring a mix of townhomes, single-level homes and single-family residences. Homes in the Grove will be arrayed around a quiet native woodland, while the Park’s residences will flank a broad open green. A community center for use by residents unites these neighborhoods and the Village, which is nearing completion.

“We’re very excited to be embarking on this next phase of the community,” said Jeff Sharp, Grow Community development manager. “In designing and building the Grove and the Park, we are completing our vision of providing an enriching place to live – one that provides opportunities to age in place, enjoy the benefits and satisfaction inherent with intergenerational living and doing it all in a sustainable and healthy community.”

Accessible floor plans promote Grow Community’s goal of intergenerational living. Sixty percent of the new neighborhoods will be dedicated to green space and community gardens, and most parking will be underground.

Sales begin with the Grove neighborhood for 49 homes in the Salal, Juniper and Tsuga, featuring two- and three-bedroom single-level homes; the Elan townhomes, which include four two-bedroom and four three-bedroom two-story homes; and the Woodland, two-bedroom, single-family attached residences.

The sales office opens July 12-13 at 180 Olympic Drive SE next to the Bainbridge Island ferry terminal, just 35 minutes from downtown Seattle. For more details see www.growbainbridge.com

Grove neighborhood completion and owner occupancy is set for 2015. Sales for the Park neighborhood, also offering a variety of home designs, will be announced later this year.

The Grove and the Park are designed by the award-winning firm Cutler Anderson Architects.

Grow Community’s first neighborhood, the Village, broke ground in 2012 and all homes promptly sold out, indicating strong demand for the innovative One Planet Living concepts on which the community is based. Construction of multifamily units in the Village will be completed this summer. All units are preleased, and there is a strong waiting list for future vacancies.

Developed by Asani, a Bainbridge Island company committed to creating sustainable living, Grow Community is an intentional neighborhood designed for an intergenerational mix of residents with a range of floor plans ideal for families, young professionals and seniors. Grow Community is adjacent to Winslow town center and a short distance from the ferry terminal.

Possibility, Connection, Happiness

During a rigorous two-year concept phase, Asani invited participation from the local community and asked the question, “What kind of a neighborhood do you want to live in?” What emerged was an idea for a new kind of community, based around the ideals of health and happiness, possibility, and deeper connections with the community and the land.

The Grow design team adopted the One Planet Living framework to guide planning and development. Based on the 10 principles of sustainability developed by BioRegional and The World Wildlife Fund, One Planet Living envisions communities in which people everywhere can enjoy a high quality of life within the productive capacity of the planet.

Grow Community’s first phase, the Village, was endorsed as only the fifth One Planet Community in the world and the first residential project in the United States.

The Grove and Park neighborhoods in the second phase are also guided by the One Planet Living framework. An example of that framework in action is the concept of a “five-minute lifestyle” where residents are close to local amenities and urban attractions in Winslow town center, reducing their dependency on automobiles. A neighborhood car-share program offers Grow residents access to an electric vehicle charged by a solar-powered station – a unique zero-carbon option.

Largest solar community in Washington state

With the goal of making zero-carbon living both attainable and affordable, Asani partnered with local solar companies to develop an optional solar package for every home in the Village. This option continues in phase 2, with solar offered on all residential units including townhomes, single-level residences and single family homes. The package makes it easy for owners to understand the upfront costs and the financing strategy. It also explains the federal tax credits that are available and how the solar energy that is produced can pay for the cost of the system while dramatically reducing or altogether eliminating a resident’s electric bill.

“We wanted to make it easy to live a more sustainable lifestyle, so it was a simple decision to provide a well thought out program for adding solar energy to our homes,” said Jeff Sharp, Grow Community development manager. “At the end of the day, this approach worked very well for our residents and that allowed the community to achieve the distinction of becoming the largest solar community in the state.”
More information is available at www.growbainbridge.com

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ABOUT ASANI: Bainbridge Island-based Asani is a community of planners, architects, contractors and developers working to positively impact communities and the environment with profitable projects that are both socially responsible and ecologically sustainable. Past and current projects include Vineyard Lane, Island Gateway, the Kids’ Discovery Museum, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, and Grow Community.

Grow Community on Bainbridge gets ready for the second phase

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June 24, 2014

By JOURNAL STAFF

The first phase has 41 units and is nearly complete, with single-family houses, duplexes and apartments. All the houses have been purchased and all the rental units are leased. This would’ve been an amazing investment opportunity for a real estate investor to add to their portfolio. The potential profit of a project like this would be huge, that’s why it can be difficult to come across projects like this one. However, to ensure you’re ready for the next real estate investment opportunity, it might be worth visiting Roofstock to ensure you understand all aspects of investing in properties.

PHC Construction is seeking subcontractors and suppliers for the second phase of an 8-acre development on Bainbridge Island called Grow Community.

A total of 49 residential units are planned in this phase, including four single-family houses, eight townhouses and three condo buildings with 12 to 13 units apiece, as well as a community building.

Bids and qualifications are being accepted through Wednesday. Contact PHC Construction for more information.

Grow Community is in Winslow town center, about a mile from the ferry terminal, at Wyatt Way Northwest and Grow Avenue Northwest.

The first phase has 41 units and is nearly complete. There are 17 single-family houses, two duplexes and two apartment buildings with 10 units each.

Home sizes range from 1,100 to 1,850 square feet. Prices for the for-sale units go from the low $300,000s to more than $570,000, according to Kitsap County records. Apartment rents range from $975 to $1,975.

All the houses have been purchased and all the rental units have been leased in the first phase, according to a spokesman for Grow Community.

There is a wait list for apartments, the spokesperson said. Some of the current renters are waiting for units in Grow to be built so they can purchase them.

Adding condos to the second phase came from requests from house hunters who want single-level homes that are more accessible, the spokesman said.

The second phase will be built in two parts. The first half has been planned but feedback from new residents will help determine the mix of units in the second half, which will add another 40 units.

The next round of construction is expected to begin in late summer. This will include the basics of every apartment from the front entrance to the bathroom, where companies such as glassshowerdirect.com will be used.

The architect for the second phase is Cutler Anderson Architects of Bainbridge Island. Asani is the developer. Grow Community is owned by an investment group.

Homes in Grow are designed to be solar-ready and very green, with low-flow fixtures, low-VOC materials, and appliances and building envelopes that are energy efficient.

Grow Community is one of nine endorsed One Planet Communities around the world, and the second in the U.S. The British-based One Planet Communities program is focused on creating a network of the world’s greenest neighborhoods, and puts an emphasis on lifestyles as well as green buildings.

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Introducing the Grove & the Park

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Grow Community’s first neighborhood, the Village, set a new standard for comfortable, sustainable urban living with its cluster of beautifully designed, energy-efficient single-family homes. Now come the Grove and the Park, two new neighborhoods of high-quality, sustainable homes surrounding lush public greens and a shared community center. The garden spaces, healthy transportation options and low-carbon designs of the Village are here too — along with those solar-ready roofs — this time in a new mix of designs including townhomes and single-level homes.

Very soon we will begin pre-selling homes in the Grove and are opening a sales office at 180 Olympic Drive SE on Bainbridge Island – just a 2 minute walk from the ferry terminal. We invite you to come and learn about this beautiful new phase of Grow Community.

We hope you’ll join us for our Grand Opening weekend – July 12 & 13th, 12-5pm.

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Auburn University’s School of Real Estate Development tours Grow

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Friday, June 20th we had a visit from students within Auburn University’s School of Real Estate Development.

The program primarily has working professionals in the building, development, and real estate industries in a 2 year masters program.

For their Northwest trip they were focused on sustainable development, which gave us an opportunity to discuss different certification programs, response from the market, risks within this market, and how their region has reacted to the idea of more efficient, sustainably developed residential communities.  It seems it continues to be a hard sell in the Southeast with little support in incentives and educational programs.

The group was very excited and inspired by what we are doing.