As North Las Vegas continues to grow, many developers and home builders, including Temple Residential, are hoping to make their mark with designs and projects new to the city.
Aaron Temple, chief executive officer of Temple Residential, said the company opened its Senna project in North Las Vegas about a year ago, and is currently working on a condominium community called Uptown, near Centennial Parkway and Statz Street.
The company was founded in 1984 by his father, and in 1998, Temple took the company's reins. The family business has history in North Las Vegas, he said.
"My dad built Palomino Estates, which is a development the mayor of North Las Vegas is very proud of," he said. "He also built the Autumn Chase and Cactus Springs developments."
The company now builds single and multi-family homes and has also done property management, Temple said.
The Senna attached-home community includes homes in four floor plans, from 1,751 to 2,314 square feet with two to five bedrooms and two or three bathrooms. The homes include Moen fixtures, General Electric appliances, Corian counter tops, soft water loops, recessed lighting, 10-foot ceilings and two-car garages.
The homes also include private enclosed courtyards and private rear yards. Homes in the Senna community begin in the mid-$300,000s.
Temple said the Uptown community will include 168 homes ranging from 1,178 to 1,436 square feet, priced between about $250,000 to $300,000.
The target demographic for the Uptown project is young singles and couples who are drawn to the idea of high-rise living.
"They're a little more hip but still affordable That was one of the big things we were going for," he said. "There are all of these high rises going for $1,000 a square foot -- people who want the same lifestyle, but less expensive, are who we're marketing to."
The homes each include a standard garage, Corian counter tops, beech cabinets, Moen fixtures, kitchen bars, track lighting and ultra low-flow toilets and water-saver shower heads. The gated community also features a community pool, clubhouse, a tot lot play area, exercise room and outdoor living room.
Temple said both communities are maintained by their homeowners' associations.
The Senna project is targeted more at families, he said, though both developments were designed with large windows and spacious, open interiors. Though the Senna units are attached, each has a backyard large enough to accommodate a pool, Temple said.
"The units feel large because of a very open floor plan," he said. "They're good for entertaining."
The Uptown units in particular were designed to have an urban, entertaining-friendly feel, and Temple said the units were designed with large patios and balconies of up to 200 square feet.
"That's large enough that you can fit a full-size dining room table out there," he said.
The patios and balconies will each have either Strip or mountain views.
Temple said Uptown's first units have already opened, and owners are already moving in, though the project is being completed in phases and won't be finished until the second quarter of 2008. About one-fifth of the community's units have already been sold, though the sales office wasn't set to open until this month.
He believes that as more shopping and restaurant areas are developed throughout the city, projects like Uptown and Senna will become more popular.
"North Las Vegas is changing a lot, and one of the things I've seen is that it's evolved through the years," Temple said. "People coming in here are going to get a lot of value. We put a lot of time and effort into our stuff, so later on, it will still look good."
For more information, visit www.templeresidential.com.
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