Complete Communities
Just because a community is completed, doesn't always make it complete.
At Costa Pacific, we believe in Complete Community Planning: designing communities in which every detail works to enhance the living experience of residents. Our neighborhoods are ones where the homes are designed to promote interaction with the sidewalks and streets, building a social bond between neighbors. Our pocket parks and green spaces give children room to play and form lifelong friendships. And bustling town centers bring the community together — and give residents everything they need, right there in the neighborhood. Basically, we make sure that each Costa Pacific community is...continue reading
Connected - designed with walking, biking, and commuting in mind.
"We're talking about connecting people in every way people can be connected, through the built environment, having architecture that connects to the street, having transit, connecting with your neighbor down the street." - Rudy Kadlub
Connectivity means giving people the chance to interact. We incorporate central plazas, central mail facilities, recreational areas, and carefully selected commercial tenants, all with the goal of creating a community where people can live, work and play among friends and neighbors. The mail center, grocer, and local coffee shop are places where people can meet and befriend other members of the community, expanding their community from direct neighbors to those who live around the corner and down the street.
Connectivity means giving people choices in how they move about. We believe that no community can be complete without a variety of transit options. We do this by building enduring communities on a scale that allows humans to flourish. Costa uses a variety of design features to favor people over cars. Carefully crafted streets with close focal points, green spaces to walk toward, walkable distances to retail, decreased setbacks to slow traffic, and a myriad of other features all focus on the pedestrian, skateboarder, rollerblader, biker, or baby in a stroller. Also, an integral part of all our communities is their proximity to public transportation, reducing the total amount of vehicle miles travelled.
Our planners build streets that give people several ways to get from place to place. We have virtually eliminated cul-de-sacs that enclose spaces and prevent connectivity. We also install the latest fiber-optic data lines to ensure super-fast connectivity on the information superhighway.
Sustainable - built for the long term, with eco-friendly building techniques and an inherent appreciation for the surrounding environment.
"There are three heads to sustainability, including environmental, economic, and social sustainability. You need all three for a community to work long term." - Rudy Kadlub
The population is growing, natural resources are diminishing and available space is shrinking. Sustainability has moved to the forefront of social consciousness. Costa is there, creating sustainable communities in several ways. In the terms most people think first, we develop environmentally sustainable communities. Costa Pacific integrates and preserves the natural environment by retaining green areas, landscaping with native species, installing state of the art bioretention cells and stormwater runoff devices like permeable pavers and rooftop gardens. Our demolition of existing buildings involves recycling of as much material as possible. We have gone to great lengths to save existing trees and incorporate them into such places as the central piazza and surrounding parks. Our interiors use environmentally friendly materials and energy efficient appliances.
We use careful planning to maximize the number of residences that front green spaces and innovative architecture to maximize density (keeping costs down, increasing tax revenue per unit area, and preserving green space) while still providing comfortable residences with ample privacy. We have used sideyards with easements, rear parking, and an absence of cul-de-sacs to maintain density, increase neighborhood connectivity and preserve privacy.
For a community to endure, it must also be financially sustainable. It has to create enough value that people will invest in the local businesses and homes, giving the area a sufficient tax base to support local schools and infrastructure. Costa helps make this happen with the quality of the products we turn out. As an example, homes at Orenco Station have sold at above market prices and many of the first retail tenants in 1998 are still operating.
There is another part of sustainability, and that is the social factor. In order for a community to thrive people must interact, meet and greet new acquaintances and old friends at the local coffee shops, parks, and plazas. For a community to have a local character and endure, people must know their neighbors and feel a sense of place where they live so they take pride in their neighborhoods. While this social factor is not something that can be built, the master planning helps give it the opportunity to surface.
Diverse - offering a variety of home styles, pricing, land uses, and transportation options.
"Diversity means creating variety, the kind of variety that makes a great place. We find that the most boring places in America are those that are homogenous." - Rudy Kadlub
Variety is the spice of life. That's why Costa's communities are carefully planned to promote many types of diversity. We provide people with a variety of ways to get around on walking trails, bike paths and public transit.
We provide a variety of home types, prices and sizes. A single development can offer everything from studio apartments overlooking a bustling town center to single family homes on large lots to assisted living facilities for adults with disabilities. This diversity allows a wide tenant mix and adds flavor to the neighborhood.
We offer office space for people to work close to home. We offer retail space for people to shop close to home. We believe that walking through your neighborhood to buy a gallon of milk is a lost treasure in contemporary society.
Within the public spaces, some are actively used like the playgrounds and retail areas, while others have passive uses, as open spaces to look at, or for an occasional game of catch.
Communities with a mix of uses are more interesting. And we have found that when people interact with their community in parks, local businesses, or from porch to sidewalk, they are happier. Further, people are out and about, they know their neighbors, and they start to know who belongs and who doesn't, thus the communities become a lot safer.
By designing complete communities, Costa Pacific ensures a connected, sustainable, and diverse experience for all its residents-and a completely new concept in homebuilding.
"We're talking about connecting people in every way people can be connected, through the built environment, having architecture that connects to the street, having transit, connecting with your neighbor down the street." - Rudy Kadlub
Connectivity means giving people the chance to interact. We incorporate central plazas, central mail facilities, recreational areas, and carefully selected commercial tenants, all with the goal of creating a community where people can live, work and play among friends and neighbors. The mail center, grocer, and local coffee shop are places where people can meet and befriend other members of the community, expanding their community from direct neighbors to those who live around the corner and down the street.
Connectivity means giving people choices in how they move about. We believe that no community can be complete without a variety of transit options. We do this by building enduring communities on a scale that allows humans to flourish. Costa uses a variety of design features to favor people over cars. Carefully crafted streets with close focal points, green spaces to walk toward, walkable distances to retail, decreased setbacks to slow traffic, and a myriad of other features all focus on the pedestrian, skateboarder, rollerblader, biker, or baby in a stroller. Also, an integral part of all our communities is their proximity to public transportation, reducing the total amount of vehicle miles travelled.
Our planners build streets that give people several ways to get from place to place. We have virtually eliminated cul-de-sacs that enclose spaces and prevent connectivity. We also install the latest fiber-optic data lines to ensure super-fast connectivity on the information superhighway.
Sustainable - built for the long term, with eco-friendly building techniques and an inherent appreciation for the surrounding environment.
"There are three heads to sustainability, including environmental, economic, and social sustainability. You need all three for a community to work long term." - Rudy Kadlub
The population is growing, natural resources are diminishing and available space is shrinking. Sustainability has moved to the forefront of social consciousness. Costa is there, creating sustainable communities in several ways. In the terms most people think first, we develop environmentally sustainable communities. Costa Pacific integrates and preserves the natural environment by retaining green areas, landscaping with native species, installing state of the art bioretention cells and stormwater runoff devices like permeable pavers and rooftop gardens. Our demolition of existing buildings involves recycling of as much material as possible. We have gone to great lengths to save existing trees and incorporate them into such places as the central piazza and surrounding parks. Our interiors use environmentally friendly materials and energy efficient appliances.
We use careful planning to maximize the number of residences that front green spaces and innovative architecture to maximize density (keeping costs down, increasing tax revenue per unit area, and preserving green space) while still providing comfortable residences with ample privacy. We have used sideyards with easements, rear parking, and an absence of cul-de-sacs to maintain density, increase neighborhood connectivity and preserve privacy.
For a community to endure, it must also be financially sustainable. It has to create enough value that people will invest in the local businesses and homes, giving the area a sufficient tax base to support local schools and infrastructure. Costa helps make this happen with the quality of the products we turn out. As an example, homes at Orenco Station have sold at above market prices and many of the first retail tenants in 1998 are still operating.
There is another part of sustainability, and that is the social factor. In order for a community to thrive people must interact, meet and greet new acquaintances and old friends at the local coffee shops, parks, and plazas. For a community to have a local character and endure, people must know their neighbors and feel a sense of place where they live so they take pride in their neighborhoods. While this social factor is not something that can be built, the master planning helps give it the opportunity to surface.
Diverse - offering a variety of home styles, pricing, land uses, and transportation options.
"Diversity means creating variety, the kind of variety that makes a great place. We find that the most boring places in America are those that are homogenous." - Rudy Kadlub
Variety is the spice of life. That's why Costa's communities are carefully planned to promote many types of diversity. We provide people with a variety of ways to get around on walking trails, bike paths and public transit.
We provide a variety of home types, prices and sizes. A single development can offer everything from studio apartments overlooking a bustling town center to single family homes on large lots to assisted living facilities for adults with disabilities. This diversity allows a wide tenant mix and adds flavor to the neighborhood.
We offer office space for people to work close to home. We offer retail space for people to shop close to home. We believe that walking through your neighborhood to buy a gallon of milk is a lost treasure in contemporary society.
Within the public spaces, some are actively used like the playgrounds and retail areas, while others have passive uses, as open spaces to look at, or for an occasional game of catch.
Communities with a mix of uses are more interesting. And we have found that when people interact with their community in parks, local businesses, or from porch to sidewalk, they are happier. Further, people are out and about, they know their neighbors, and they start to know who belongs and who doesn't, thus the communities become a lot safer.
By designing complete communities, Costa Pacific ensures a connected, sustainable, and diverse experience for all its residents-and a completely new concept in homebuilding.
