Progressive Housing Ventures creates housing product for each distinct infill site. This ensures a match between market preferences with the land’s constraints and challenges. Many new and exciting housing products abound which can be tailored to different sites. Some examples of new construction infill housing concepts by PHV include:

• Multiplex Townhomes
• Cluster Townhomes
• Mid-rise Condominiums and New Lofts
• Live Work Units
• Cluster Single-Family Homes
• Stacked Townhomes and Flats

Multiplex townhomes offer an affordably priced yet pedestrian-friendly choice. Units have private 2 car attached garages at the rear so as to keep front sidewalks free for pedestrians, creating a charming streetscape with covered porch front doors for all units. Because the Townhomes are placed back to back, each unit has its own private living spaces above on 3 or 4 stories.

• Offered at Green Street Mews, Downingtown, PA. Learn more here.

Green Street Mews is our recent townhome community.

The facades of multiplex townhomes can be quite versatile, resembling in this Seattle, WA case (pictured above) existing single family homes in the neighborhood. [Marcia Gamble Hadley, architect]

Townhomes can be tastefully clustered into small sites, while minimizing the impact of garages. Use of dormers, nested gables, steep roof pitches, tasteful color schemes and extensive landscaping, as well as varying roof heights and shallow front yard setbacks combine to yield a pleasing street scape.

Pictured above: Glen Arbor cluster townhomes, Gulph Mills, PA representing 36 units on 6 acres by Rouse/Chamberlin homes under leadership of Sarah Peck.

Market research indicates a demand by suburban consumers for upscale, elevator served apartments and condominium units in convenient locations, even adjacent to active rail lines. These product types offer maintenance-free lifestyles in levels of luxury and convenience previously found only in center city alternatives.

Pictured above: Former proposal by Progressive Housing Ventures for condominiums and lofts at Devon Train Station, a transit oriented community. Building design utilized existing grades to minimize earth disturbance. Architecture: Barton Partners.

Multi-family buildings also lend themselves to loft style apartments, increasingly popular with young professionals and childless couples. Wide open, light filled spaces, exposed ductwork and walls characterize these statement-making dwelling choices. (Pictured below: new construction loft apartments at Hometown, Aurora IL by Bigelow Homes).

The growing trend of working from home is fueling the popularity of live-work units. In such spaces, a townhome or flat unit sits overtop an office or retail space, usually all owned by the same homeowner who may operate a professional office or store front. The units usually have rear parking. Live-work lofts serve as an effective transition use between commercial and residential land uses.

Pictured above: Live-Work plans offer a separate office accessible by visitors at grade level from the front, with private parking at the rear. One or more dwelling units is located directly above. Pictured above: Main Street Crossing, Brighton MI by Crosswinds Communities, Hobbs and Black, architects. Illustrative floorplan is from Arlington Square by Avalon Bay Communities, Torti Gallas & Partners architects.

Cluster Single Family home concepts lend themselves to environmentally constrained sites – which many infill sites tend to be. Courtyard accessed garages minimize roadways and impervious coverage. Use of rear privacy walls can screen active train lines.

Pictured right: Courtyard-clustered single family homes proposed by PHV for infill site near Chestnut Hill, PA. Site is heavily wooded and constrained by floodplain. Land planning: Perry Morgan, JLM Design, Inc.

On tight, urban sites density can be achieved attractively by stacking Townhomes over flats. Rear accessed garages hide the view of cars and promote a pedestrian friendly street scape.

Pictured above: Woodward Place at Brush Park, Detroit MI, features stacked townhomes over flats by Crosswinds Communities, Hamilton Anderson, architect. Site plan depicts Progressive Housing Ventures proposed site plan for a narrow site backing to an active railroad line; each building contains 2 dwelling units. Land planning by R. Douglas Stewart Associates.

Westood Village townhomes, Fairfax VA by Eakin/Youngentob: Eagleview single family homes, Exton PA by The Hankin Group; Park Place townhomes by Miller & Smith, Reston VA, Pappageorge/Haymes, Ltd Architects. Loft unit from Hometown Aurora Town Center by Bigelow Homes, Palatine, IL.