Lennar Maryland’s newest townhome community, Clarksburg Square, was featured on TV ABC7 news in Washington D.C. The segment focused on the community being the first and only all-solar powered community in Maryland and the new Innovative Living features line from Lennar.
Clarksburg Square is located in a sought-after area in Montgomery County, Maryland – a major employment hub located just outside of Washington, D.C. Townhomes start in the $400’s, include solar power, and feature Lennar’s Innovative Living line of home automation features all centrally controlled by an iPad included with each home. The community has an urban-inspired design, and interior features include gourmet kitchens, granite or quartz countertops, hardwood or LVP flooring, coffered ceilings, and more all included in the price of your home with Lennar’s Everything’s Included!(R) packages.
Click here to watch the video on WJLA Washington D.C.’s website, and read the article below to learn more about Clarksburg Square!
“CLARKSBURG, Md. (ABC7) – An unprecedented Maryland neighborhood is rising from the ground in northern Montgomery County, with vows of providing relief to pocketbooks and the environment.
Clarksburg Square, developed and built by Miami-based Lennar Corporation, is slated to become the first ‘all solar’ community in Maryland. Plans call for all 190 townhomes to be built with state-of-the-art rooftop solar panels that will allow for real time monitoring of success (or failure). The panels will be manufactured and distributed by Lennar’s sister company, SunStreet.
“Innovation is in our DNA,” Lennar regional sales manager Chris Birth remarked. “Being Maryland’s only 100% solar community is a tremendous asset to our buyers.”
According to Lennar, the solar panels come complimentary with each property, include a full 20-year warranty and promise to produce savings. The panels are designed to provide more than 50-percent of electricity use in households during the spring and fall months when Mid-Atlantic temperatures are mild, and long sunny days are in abundance. Each home’s absorption of sunlight will depend on a number factors, including weather, plus the angle, direction and number of solar panels.
“If you have a $200 electric bill, we’d look at that bill being around $160 or less – 20-percent is the guarantee, but we expect that these systems are going to outperform that,” Birth added.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, the average residential monthly electric bill was $110.21 in 2013. Taking that figure into account, the average homeowner at Clarksburg Square could expect to save at least $265 per year with the assistance of solar panels. According to Birth, Lennar and SunStreet will also receive a portion of the energy savings in addition to tax credits.
{Read the full article at WJLA.com}
