| MARCH
26, 2007
Renaissance Homes has opened sales
at its $23.25 million, 30-home Hunter Ridge, a gated
community with views east up the Columbia Gorge toward
Mt. Hood on Astor Street in Camas.
With a sale and several reservations
under his belt, Renaissance President Randy Sebastian
was predicting brisk sales “because this is a
prime view location on Prune Hill, one of the most popular
Camas areas, where we have large lots and many opportunities
for daylight basement homes.”
Homes at Hunter Ridge will range from a 2,872-square-foot
three-bedroom, 2.5 bath plan with master bedroom on
main floor to 4,457-square-foot four-bedroom, three
bath daylight basement plan. All have three car garages.
A model home will be completed this fall.
Base prices range from $699,900 to
$844,900 plus lot premiums of $1,000 to $80,000, depending
on lot size and view. Lots are 8,300 square feet to
13,784 square feet.
In a departure from normal practice,
Hunter Ridge buyers can choose from different home sizes
and plans on several home sites because “the size
of the lots and topography give us an unusual amount
of flexibility,” Sebastian said.
A surge in sales at the firm’s nearby Renaissance
Summit has brought that 21-home neighborhood within
three sales of being completely sold and Renaissance
Broker Sharlene Castle expects sales at Hunter Ridge
to get substantial traction after the close out of that
neighborhood.
Castle said both neighborhoods are
attracting Vancouver area residents looking to move
up and “by empty nesters coming from out of state–a
lot of Oregonians coming here because of the tax advantages
and even someone from Texas, who came to this side of
the river for the same reason.”
Hunter Ridge is surrounded by green
space and the Woodland Trail, being developed to run
from one side of Prune hill to the other, skirts its
edge. “Being a gated community also is really
important to our buyers,” Castle said.
Until the Hunter Ridge model home is
completed, sales will be handled from the Renaissance
Summit sales office at 2564 NW 72nd Circle. Sales hours
are noon to 6p.m.daily and 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Monday.
The office is closed Wednesday and Thursday.
More information on Hunter Ridge is
available from Castle at 503-572-7314, Katrin Crum,
360-518-2600.
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 specification, 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
Castle.
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’ 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 firs 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.
Renaissance Homes is one of metropolitan
area’s largest residential builders and the first
major builder committed to 100 percent green building.
Hunter Ridge is the firm’s sixth Clark County
neighborhood. Besides Vancouver and Camas, the firm
has neighborhoods underway in Sherwood, West Linn, Happy
Valley, Wilsonville, Beaverton, 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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