New Homes Under Construction

The secret is out: Azusa is a great value for families looking for a home to raise their kids. Quality schools, safe neighborhoods, convenient parks, active churches, lots of wholesome options for young people to participate in all at affordable home prices. The result? A record-breaking $64 million in home re-sales this year, and more than 400 new single-family homes under construction!”It had four bedrooms and it was well-taken care of,” Marie Correa said of the home she and her husband Gonzalo bought last year on Orange Avenue in Azusa.

“It’s a clean and safe community and we liked the schools,” she adds, important considerations for a family with three children, ranging from seven months to nine years old.

Not only are new families snapping up older homes on the market, new homes are selling as fast as they can be built. Parkside (next to Zacatecas Park) is a new neighborhood of 82 homes that offers a premium not found in other new developments: old-fashioned parkways with street trees, generous porches and views of a neighborhood park just down the street. “We’ve set a new standard with developers. We embrace the best of the new, the floorplans and amenities that modern families love, and combine it with the traditional elements of a walkable, friendly neighborhood,” noted Community Development Director Roy Bruckner. “Instead of turning the homes inward behind a wall, they face outward to make the streets safer and more beautiful. That’s what residents of Azusa have told us they want through our Citizens Congress. New home buyers are clearly buying the results.”That’s why Alexander-Catania is building 26 more homes nestled against the foothills, across the road from a successful 30 home collection they sold out just over a year ago.

“The only thing we’re changing is more of the same: bigger porches, more architectural variety, more generous yards and greener landscaping,” declared AC’s Dean Maners. “There’s clearly a great market of families looking to move in or move up in Azusa.

”The largest development now under construction is Standard Pacific’s Mountain Cove. “You won’t see anything touching these homes in their price range,” predicts the Mike Battaglia, project manager for the company. “A spectacular setting along the San Gabriel River, built in harmony with nature -it’s not a collection of houses, it’s a complete community of individual, interconnected neighborhoods. Azusa residents told us they didn’t want a cookie cutter housing development, so we’ve labored over every detail, from how the bridges are lighted to how the roof top textures and colors look from across the river.”

”Family, neighborhood, community, these are the three cornerstones of making Azusa the Gateway to the American Dream for new residents,” concluded City Manager Rick Cole. “Our older neighborhoods are seeing new life and new investment. Our new neighborhoods are being built with old-fashioned value. My wife and I had three reasons why we moved to our new home in Azusa; our twin girls and our son. Our neighborhood reflects all the diversity of Southern California; and all the old-fashioned intimacy of a hometown for our kids.”