We’re enjoying the last gentle days of fall, trying to use them fully to finish up all the little details of our first phase. Nights are frosty, and early snowfall still clings to the north–facing, high-elevation slopes of the Tetons, warning us that winter is not far away. Thankfully that means skiing will be here soon, too!

Sidewalks are being poured, the first 5 Cottages are being framed up, two kinds of maple street trees were just planted. Construction is about to begin on the Village Center Pavilion, housing the water pumphouse and mail center.

All the infrastructure is in the ground. We’ll put the irrigation system in next spring, then finish our landscaping of the streets, open spaces and the Village Green. We’re still excavating and shaping the main pond on the Old Jackson Hwy. that will serve as a primary landscape amenity and the source of water for our irrigation system.

Demand for built housing is very strong. We sold out the 5 Cottages before we even began construction on them. At $220,000 base price for 1300 square feet on a main floor and half floor upstairs, plus an unfinished basement – 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, that’s a good deal in the present marketplace. Especially when you realize we are building these cottages to high standards of greenbuilding and energy efficiency – Energy Star and LEED-H. This is our first chance to walk our talk about low-impact, sustainable building. The Cottage is just one -- the smallest single-family house -- of the housing types we have planned for this community.

The next larger house type is the Village House with a target size of 1700 to 1800 square feet. There are only 3 in Phase 1, Demand is high so if you are interested, reserve yours soon! Village House lots are designed to maximize passive solar gain along a lengthy southern wall. They allow a 600 sq. ft. rentable granny flat apartment above the garage for visitors, in-laws, teenagers who won’t leave home or whatever – a flexible housing type that can help pay the mortgage.

FALL DISCOUNT UNTIL THANKSGIVING
This fall for a short time we are offering a 20 percent discount on the Side-Yard and Boulevard lots, to encourage people to jump in early and help us give shape to this community. These lots are intended for people to design and build their own homes, either personal or on spec by builders who understand our guiding principles.

Our in-house design team can help you design and manage the construction of your new home here in Mountainside Village or elsewhere.

Come by and visit us this winter in our temporary office at 891 South Baseline Road across the street from the Grand Teton Brewing Co. We look forward to moving into one of the Cottages as soon as it is completed, but that will be February or so.