Magnolia Courts at La Verne, a newly constructed development of 101 Craftsman style condominiums, represents the next era of responsible planning for the San Gabriel Valley. The development is set to be an ultra dynamic, active adult community that unifies architectural heritage, luxury living, and environmental stewardship.
Planned over nearly three years by Hsientein La Verne Investments LLC, renowned for multifamily and planned urban developments throughout the San Gabriel Valley, Magnolia Courts at La Verne will be an exemplary product of luxury living lifestyle along with smart and sophisticated high performance building methods. It will establish a benchmark of responsible planning and green building practice. Magnolia Courts is not only an award-winning design project but is also qualified to obtain an ENERGY STAR® rating, expected to be the first of its kind in the San Gabriel Valley.
“Magnolia Courts reflects the growing importance of the active adult market, infill development and greener, more sustainable planning and design,” said John Thatch, Dahlin Group Principal of Design. “We are delighted to see it honored in such a competitive arena as the SAGE (Senior Achievement and General Excellence) program, which fielded a record number of entries for its 2009 program.” Dahlin Group has earned new recognition for senior housing design, with a SAGE Award from the 50+ Housing Council, part of the Building Industry Association of Southern California. The awards honor excellence and innovation in senior housing in which the Dahlin Group took a top honor in the “on the boards” category for Magnolia Courts at La Verne.
“Two ideals stood out as we began to shape this project – active lifestyle and energy efficiency,” said Vicky Chang and Dr. Michael Fortanasce principals of Hsientein La Verne Investments LLC. “Magnolia Courts will complement our mission of assuring that homeowners can live close to family, friends, and familiar surroundings, while enjoying amenities, mobility, and the freedom to maintain rich and active lifestyles.” The central clubhouse of Magnolia Courts comprises social spaces, meeting rooms, pool, and spa. The fitness gym in the clubhouse exceptionally caters to Boomers today who are leading longer and more active, and independent lives.
Exclusively represented by Treeline Realty, one of the largest and successful independent brokerages in the San Gabriel Valley, the Treeline Sales Team has taken the lead to not only provide Magnolia Courts with aggressive sales and marketing strategies, but they also provide green building consultation throughout the construction of the project to obtain ENERGY STAR®. “In today’s real estate market, much has been focused on discounting,” said May Hsu, sales consultant of Treeline Sales Team. “But at Treeline Realty, we focus on helping our clients build better homes, thus benefitting both the homeowner and the developer. We truly believe in the triple bottom line; people, planet, and profit.”
All of the units in Magnolia Courts are ENERGY STAR® qualified, which includes a variety of “tried-and-true” energy-efficient features that contribute to improve home quality comfort, lower ownership cost, durability, better performance, and reduce air pollution. Other unique features includes Radiant Barriers installed under roof to reduce summer heat gain and winter heat loss, high performance low – E glass windows Milguard Suncoat MAX®, ENERGY STAR® appliances, and fluorescent lighting throughout. Each unit is solar ready; conduits from each breaker panel unit have hook-ups to the roof. The insulation and ducts of each building are inspected and certified by a Home Energy Rating System (HERS) rater. All these features help the new homeowner to save money and live better.
Slated for an early 2011grand opening, Magnolia Courts at La Verne are available in three attractive residences with 1-2 bedroom floor plans. Each residence offers European design kitchen and baths, washer/dryer hookups, private patio or balcony, storage, enclosed parking garage, and views of the mountains or lush gardens. The clubhouse will bring the community together for birthday parties, conference meetings, health and fitness classes, and endless summer barbeques. And, of course, the community will be accentuated with beautiful magnolia trees all year round.
Magnolia Courts is now forming an interest list. For more information,, please call 1-877-575-0757 or visit www.LaVerne101.com.
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