City Ventures to offer "LEAF ready" homes

[jcesare]

Nissan Americas and City Ventures – California’s leading builder of affordable, eco-friendly homes in urban locations – announced a cooperative project to pre-wire 190 Southern California townhomes currently under construction for electric vehicle chargers. The effort will result in the largest residential, electric vehicle pre-wiring project in the United States.

http://nissannews.com/newsrelease.d...ollaborate-create-largest-offering-leaf&mid=1

 

[LBCev]

My wife and I went to view City Ventures' "Signal Hill Collection" just yesterday at their "Green Key" event. The sales staff and project manager were thrilled that we had a LEAF; apparently we were the first to come by the job site.

This is a high density town home community at the very foot of Signal Hill, bordering Long Beach at PCH and Orizaba. The whole community will attain a LEED "gold" certification. The garages are all pre-wired for EVSEs. Additionally, each development has it's own photovoltaic system to offset electrical costs. The units are all fully electric, have energy efficient windows and have low flow plumbing. They are also recycling and reusing 90% of the building materials. City Ventures should be applauded for adopting this forward thinking building strategy. The basic floor plan was $329K without any upgrades and the HOA is $305.

Overall we were impressed with the staff and the construction. The price for the area was a bit high. I think $275 for the starter would be more palatable. Still, best of luck for City Ventures. This is a builder to watch.

 

[Randy]

Interesting that they chose all-electric...Any info on that?

Randy