Highland Groves Details

The Mister and I drove through Highland Groves on Monday and he was very encouraged with all the curbs and gutters. He showed me the house of the very first new residents; I guess it would be exciting to be the first, but there is an awful lot of noise and activity all around. It actually looked like they hadn't physically moved in yet. We stopped off at a corner to inspect the truncated domes (The Mister explained these in this post), which thankfully are not yellow, but are embedded in the sidewalk, and we thought they looked as good as possible.

Now is the time that things are happening that you can see every day.

Ashton Woods is trying very hard to get their models open this weekend. They were carting in furniture as we drove by, and the parking lot looked ready; the landscaping was being worked on, but not ready. I'm excited to see them, both for the layout, and to see how they decorate.

The Water Expert tells me that the lake edges are all fixed now and they should be laying down the lake liner (the big sheets of plastic) this week. He hopes to get it filled in the next couple of weeks, although that will be running through Christmas. But once it's filled, that opens the floodgates - okay, not floodgates, but the irrigation system, anyway - to start installing the landscaping, and that will be dramatic visually. You will remember that the lakes' purpose, though aesthetically pleasing, is to provide the transportation of the reclaimed water to the community for landscape irrigation.

Since the curbs and gutters are coming along so nicely, the next step of actually paving the roads is also accelerating. This means we don't have to 4-wheel it through the project anymore, except when we're looking at the lakes.

Stay tuned for updates and pictures of the coming transformation.