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Business Spotlight
Where the Living is Easy
You are a baby boomer approaching retirement. Your investments
are relatively safe. Your kids are married and rearing their own
families. You are living in too much house. You are looking for a
something smaller, more upscale, a friendly community within
reach of nearby golf, tennis, restaurants, walking trails and quality
services such as hospitals and wealth management advisors. Who
can put all that together for you and still smile every day?
The answer may be Paul and Lisa Scarmazzi who together
have formed a real estate development partnership expressly to
build and manage attractive condominium communities, in
particular ranch condominiums for the growing population of
“empty nesters.” These are couples whose children have grown up
and who are now looking for an easy-going living arrangement that
emphasizes comfort, quality and a more compact ranch-style
environment in an upscale development of like-minded couples.
Hawthorne Partners have three developments under active
management. The first Hawthorne finished was the Villas at
Parkwood Estates, in Crescent. The second is the Villas on the
Green, in South Strabane, and the third is the Villas of Arden
Mills, in Chartiers. The communities share a common feature in
that they all comprise single-story homes constructed in clusters.
The concept behind this approach is to enhance the social
interaction that is emphasized as a central feature of these
communities. Thus, active but mature retirees living in any one of
these clusters would naturally gravitate towards and connect with
other empty-nesters who share similar backgrounds and interests.
One of the unique qualities of these communities is the
emphasis on upscale interior design. Since the future occupants
have high expectations about the kind of dwelling they want to
move to, Hawthorne Partners have gone to great lengths to design
each house with lavish attention to detail. Color coordination, for
example, is of paramount importance, as are the construction
materials used and the quality of appliances.
As Paul Scarmazzi notes when asked to describe his approach
to this type of development, “You’re really creating communities
where people develop lasting friendships. We create communities
with lasting architecture that are nice and pretty 10 years from
now.”
Individual homes range in size from 1,400 to around
2,000 square feet and are priced at around $170,000 to $200,000
and above.
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