Hayden Homes cuts ribbon on new model home in Polo Ridge
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Representatives of Hayden Homes and the organization’s project managers in Moses Lake cut the ribbon on the newly constructed model home in the Polo Ridge area of Moses Lake June 6.
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Moses Lake city officials, real estate representatives, Hayden Homes staff and representatives from the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce attended the June 6 ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new model home in Moses Lake’s newer Polo Ridge housing community.
Exterior of the new Hayden Homes model home at Polo Ridge in Moses Lake prior to the June 6 ribbon cutting. The model is built with Hayden Homes’ Hudson home plan, a single-floor plan available at Polo Ridge and Hayden Homes’ other Moses Lake neighborhoods.
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MOSES LAKE — Hayden Homes held a ribbon-cutting June 6 to celebrate a new model home in Moses Lake’s Polo Ridge community for potential home-buyers to tour, attended by Moses Lake city officials and Hayden Homes representatives.
During the ribbon cutting, Marketing Coordinator Holly Anderson said a few words.
“I also wanted to thank the community for their support with Hayden Homes,” she said. “We really appreciate the city of Moses Lake just coming and supporting us.”
The model home is one of Hayden Homes’ Hudson designs. Regional Marketing Director Gina Donangelo Barnecut talked about the benefit of a new model home.
“We typically have model homes in a number of our communities and it really just allows home buyers and prospective home buyers the opportunity to tour through and see what that home could look like,” Barnecut said. “It's not necessarily a new floor plan for us — It's definitely one of the more popular home plans.”
The model home can also help when home buyers are designing their own house, helping choose colors and other custom design elements that are optional in the process.
Polo Ridge is a newer home community in Moses Lake, near Park Orchard Elementary School, which Barnecut said Hayden Homes had been looking to expand into for a couple of years.
“(We opened) in February for sales,” Barnecut said. “It takes us a little over four months to build a home. When we opened up for sale we had a number of people that were really excited and came in and wrote contracts.”
Polo Ridge has been selling well, similarly to other Hayden Homes regions in Moses Lake, Barnecut said.
“It's been going great. We love being in Moses Lake,” she said. “We've been there for over 30 years … and it is a great community to be in, so I think that sells pretty seamlessly. It's a desirable area, in the areas we are building.”
There are only 25 homes or homesites currently available from Hayden Homes in Polo Ridge, but Barnecut said more will come.
“We have over 60 homesites out there so we typically don't release them all at once because we like to make sure that we can give our buyers a great experience and they're with us every step of the way,” she said, “as well as ensure that our trades (workers) can have time to build a quality home.”
The model is not only for Polo Ridge, Barnecut said.
“We are selling our other community from there as well. We have Maple Landing which isn't too far from Polo Ridge,” she said. “So it's an opportunity for our sales team to be sitting out there. They’re open daily.”
According to the Hayden Homes website, Polo Ridge currently has three homesites and five pre-built homes available and Maple Landing has four homesites and three available homes.
“In Polo Ridge, we have eight different home plans that range from 1,100 square feet to about 3,100 square feet and not every one of those home plans can fit on all of those home sites,” she said. “People can personalize their home so they can basically build it from the ground up.”
Barnecut said the ratio of pre-built homes to homesites varies depending on the neighborhood.
“We build them without a buyer because everybody's moving time frame is different. Somebody may need a move-in-ready home now; maybe they're moving to the area,” she said. “So we build homes without a potential buyer for that case, in case somebody needs something sooner.”
Two of the currently available homesites in Maple Landing can accommodate the Hudson design, and two pre-built Hudson houses are available in Polo Ridge.
“I think the Hudson is very dynamic. It is a popular home plan amongst all the areas in which we build a Hayden Home,” she said. “We believe that is because it has that long, wide entryway and that hallway. It's a single-level and it is pretty functional. It has an open kitchen concept and people do love that plan for that reason.”
Barnecut commented on why Hayden Homes operates in Moses Lake.
“I think Moses Lake is a very unique community,” she said. “Moses Lake is where we started in the state of Washington 30-plus years ago … so it is very near and dear to us, being able to provide homes for the hard-working families that live in Grant County.”
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Moses Lake city officials, real estate representatives, Hayden Homes staff and representatives from the Moses Lake Chamber of Commerce attended the June 6 ribbon-cutting ceremony for a new model home in Moses Lake’s newer Polo Ridge housing community.
Exterior of the new Hayden Homes model home at Polo Ridge in Moses Lake prior to the June 6 ribbon cutting. The model is built with Hayden Homes’ Hudson home plan, a single-floor plan available at Polo Ridge and Hayden Homes’ other Moses Lake neighborhoods.ARTICLES BY GABRIEL DAVIS
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