Real Estate Gets Real
Tired of subdivisions named after former habitats now buried beneath new impervious surfaces? Do housing developments named "Farmstead Hollow" or "Whispering Pines" stick in your craw? Thank goodness for truth in advertising. The new active adult residential development that is going up on ten acres near the Blackberry River in my town certainly stresses the attractions of the Berkshires to our north - though not actually in our working class community - but it also named one of its three housing types for one of the dominant vegetative features of this landscape that is bound to persist even as we continue to bulldoze and build.
Ladies and gentlemen, may I introduce "The Barberry", a housing style named for one of the most pernicious invasive shrubs to bedevil this region and often associated with unimaginative residential and commercial landscaping? Aptly and honestly named, I look forward to this trend continuing in the future. Anyone for "Bittersweet Haven" or Euonymus Estates?
Oh, for goodness sake!
Remember when condominiums used to be small, and all in one multi-storied building? :-)
Posted by: Jenn | October 19, 2007 at 04:23 PM
"Invasive Estates" would also be a good name for a community, don't you think? :D
Posted by: Janice Brown | October 19, 2007 at 10:24 PM
That's amusing. Considering the prickly, unfriendly attitude of that shrub, I wonder why they would want to name a condo style for it anyhow?
Posted by: Genevieve | October 20, 2007 at 01:45 AM