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Community Profile Location: In Bend, Oregon, a 175-mile drive from Portland Category: Greenfield Number of homes: 400 now; 1,100 to 1,300 when complete
What $300K will buy: Add $40K and you can buy a single-family cottage of 900 to 1,300 square feet. Closest latte: The Sage Café, one of about 60 businesses in the four-block commercial district.
photography: Andrew Geiger
NorthWest Crossing in Bend, Oregon. |
Civic Pride People move to Bend, in Oregon's high desert, for outdoor action—limitless mountain biking and hiking trails, world-class fly-fishing streams, challenging golf courses, and skiing and snowboarding in the Cascade Mountains, closer to Bend than the average American's daily commute. So imagine also finding a neighborhood like NorthWest Crossing, where proximity to all those wonderful activities is matched by an equally healthy quality of life. Begun in 2001 and built partially on a former ponderosa pine tree farm, the 486-acre development falls just within the western edge of the city's Urban Growth Boundary, a line all Oregon municipalities must establish in order to curb suburban sprawl. The mixed-use Traditional Neighborhood Design centers on a circular 5-acre park and retains many of the original ponderosa pines, giving it a lived-in feel. "Everybody walks," says Christi Haynes, who moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to Bend "for the lifestyle." And "everybody says 'Hi.' I'll meet my girlfriends at NorthWest Crossing for lunch and they'll say, 'No wonder you wanted to come here. You know everybody.' It's true. I feel like I belong." Cottage Connection: NorthWest Crossing Realty; 541/388-1992 or northwestcrossing.com | 
