After many years on the drawing boards and

After many years on the drawing boards and in permitting, Haymount in Caroline County, Virginia, is preparing for rapid development, according to developer John Clark. The first building, a wastewater treatment plant designed by Washington, DC, classical architect Allen Greenberg, was scheduled to be under construction in May. “It will be a significant piece of civic art,” Clark says. Clark is seeking a US Green Building Council LEED rating for the facility, he says, one of the first wastewater facilities to achieve such a rating. The plant will be powered, in part, by biodiesel and photovoltaics. It will also be designed for high efficiency and will use recycled materials in its construction. Clark expected 260 lots — the first phase — to be prepared in May for construction. Fifteen hundred lots, representing $18 million in nonrefundable contracts, have been sold to four production builders — Equity Homes, Centex, Beazer Homes, and the W.C. & A.N. Miller Company (a developer in the project). Discussions are proceeding with three custom builders to construct live-work units and other specialty products, Clark says. Vertical construction on houses is anticipated to start in the fall of 2006.