| MARCH
5, 2006
Renaissance Homes has opened sales
at its 76-home, $60.8 million Rosemont Pointe on Rosemont
Drive in West Linn and a strong early showing has company
officials optimistic about the potential for the hilltop
site.
“This is a premier West Linn
hilltop location, and we’ve had exceptional early
interest here,” said Renaissance President Randy
Sebastian, who added that there had already been 18
lots reserved.
At Rosemont Pointe, Renaissance is
offering homes ranging from 2,124 square feet with two
bedrooms and 2 baths in a single level plan to 4,512
square feet with five bedrooms and four baths. There
willl be a mix of two and three car garages and base
prices are $689,900 to $1 million $1,029,000.
Home sites range from 7,000 to 13,000
square feet allowing the firm to offer some models which
have only been available at Renaissance Pointe, a former
Street of Dreams site in Beaverton, according to Jack
Hall, Rosemont Pointe’s community manager.
These have wider fronts and “a
little grander feeling. This is a prestigious area and
we want to create a Street of Dreams feeling here,”
Hall said.
To help create an ambiance appropriate
to the setting, each driveway will have a gas lantern
and there is a community pool and pool house, he said.
In a departure from the usual practice,
Hall said buyers could choose from among several different
plans for each lot “as long as it fits on the
site and isn’t identical to one of its adjacent
neighbors,” Hall said.
All homes will be built to Renaissance’
“Living Green” standards, a group of environmentally
sound building techniques which save money on energy
and exceed the Earth Advantage program, on which it
is based.
Living Green requires use of kiln dried
lumber and special paints which eliminate the usual
“off gassing” from those products as well
as air filtration. Systems also have been developed
to seal duct work and circulate fresh air throughout
the home every 90 minutes when people are home.
The firm’s crews actually have
moisture testing equipment to make sure lumber meets
the required dryness specifications.
“Keeping paint and other vapors out of the air
may not sound like much to many people, but anyone suffering
from allergies or asthma will immediately recognize
the benefit from this part of the program,” said
Hall.
Living green also calls for use of
such composite materials as fiber cement siding, “engineered”
wood and composition roofing to reduce demand on Northwest
forests. Renaissance’ Rosemont Pointe homes go
farther than traditional “green” building
programs with an exterior package called Rain Screen.
Developed in Vancouver BC, Rain Screen
is an exterior wall system that furs out the siding
by a half inch to allow a channel of air circulation
between the siding and the house wrap. This circulates
air throughout the exterior of the house so it can “breathe”
better. Any moisture which invades the space also runs
through rather than seeping behind house wrap or plywood
and causing dry rot and mold.
Sales are being handled from a 3,595-square-foot,
four-bedroom, three-bath model home at 2795 Ridge Lane.
It is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily except 2 p.m.-5
p.m. Monday. Additional information is available from
Hall at 503-545-3982 or Leslee Lahey at 503-969–0125,
at the sales office, 503-687-4448 or on the web at www.Renaissance-Homes.com.
Company officials are expecting the
first occupants to move into Rosemont Ponte by next
summer and to have the neighborhood complete within
24 to 36 months.
Renaissance Homes is one of Oregon’s
largest residential builders and was the first major
builder committed to 100 percent green building. Besides
West Linn, the firm has neighborhoods underway in Sherwood,
Happy Valley, Wilsonville, Beaverton, Vancouver, Camas,
southwest Portland, on the Oregon Golf Association golf
course at Tukwila and in Bend.
Renaissance Homes
16771 Boones Ferry Road
Lake Oswego, Oregon 97035
Voice: 503-636-5600
Fax: 503-635-8400
Emergency Service: 503-496-0711 or 866-567-6225
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