MOUNTAIN HOUSE, CA, May 26, 2011 (Press-News.org) Launching a busy summer with a wonderful day of community on May 21, the village of Questa at Mountain House hosted nearly 800 Bay Area home shoppers and established residents to "100% Celebration," a family-friendly day of food, fun, photo opps and Facebook postings, plus new home model tours at Questa, the latest village of Mountain House.
Home to some 3,000 residents, Mountain House is a thriving new town east of Livermore. It prides itself on state-of-the art schools, a wealth of recreational opportunities and neighborhoods of charming and refined traditional architecture. By design, the setting recalls historic small town America, and it's a framework that fosters those congenial dynamics, a place where "neighbors become friends, friends become family and family becomes community."
Questa at Mountain House is the fourth village here. Two of its brand new home neighborhoods were showcased at "100% Celebration."
Americana by Meritage Homes celebrated its grand opening with an estimated 500 visitors to four model homes, and immediate sales response. Highlighted by the homebuilder's advanced program of green measures and features (with a unique "deconstructed" model home that takes shoppers behind the walls of the new homes here), these high-performance, energy-saving homes also deliver the style and practical, convenient function today's busy families are looking for.
"The opportunity to be part of a master plan with the amenities and scope of Mountain House is rare, and we are excited to be here with Americana," said Barry Grant, Northwest Area President for Meritage Homes. "This is truly a place you want to come to and stay, and we're sincerely pleased about bringing Americana's affordable, high-quality green homes to Bay Area families."
Home shoppers who attended "100% Celebration" also took in a preview of the upcoming Montalcino grand opening. Builder Standard Pacific Homes opened a sales trailer, and supplied plan drawings and other information in advance of the June 11 grand opening.
"We are delighted to bring our beautiful new homes to Mountain House, and to become part of a community that has established itself as a very special place to be," said Michele Joy, Standard Pacific Homes Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "Mountain House has a terrific reputation for its schools, recreation and community pride, making it just the type of setting we want for the homes we offer. We're truly looking forward to our June 11 grand opening--in time for the Kite Festival!"
These expanded ownership opportunities at Mountain House translate to 5 new neighborhoods for new-home buyers to consider. In addition to Americana and Montalcino, choices include new homes offered at Antigua, Campania and Esplanade, all by Shea Homes.
Home shoppers thus have choices from among 24 designs in these single-family neighborhoods. Pricing ranges from the $200,000s to the $400,000s, for floor plans of approximately 1,870 to 3,664 square feet of living space.
And as the visitors for "100% Celebration" discovered, Mountain House provides much more than stylish, attainably priced new homes. It also addresses a key priority for family buyers: their children's schools.
Quality education in the new village of Questa starts with Questa Elementary, a centrally located K-8 school. Part of the Lammersville Elementary School District, Questa Elementary is designed to serve 750 to 850 students. A state of the art facility, the school is enhanced by an adjacent park, a core feature of open space planning at Mountain House.
Mountain House has five established parks in its approximately 750 acres of reserved open space. Giving residents multiple places to enjoy recreational and leisure time, the parks also host structured sports programs, picnics and diverse gatherings. Playgrounds, baseball diamonds, basketball courts, lighted tennis courts, bocce courts, picnic areas and biking and walking paths are among park amenities, and most parks also include multi-purpose fields.
Established amenities at Mountain House also include five parks, three state-of-the-art K-8 schools and a library. At completion, Mountain House will include 10 villages, additional K-8 schools, a high school, and a Town Center with shopping, entertainment, and dining.
From the Bay Area, take the I-580 past Livermore. Exit Mountain House Parkway. Follow signs to model home centers.
Mountain House is served by the Mountain House Community Services District (MHCSD). The developer of Questa at Mountain House is Shea Mountain House LLC. To see more of this exceptional new hometown, please visit www.MountainHouseLiving.com.
Bay Area Families and Mountain House Residents Share "100% Celebration" Day of Family Activities, New Home Tours and Social Media Fun
Close to 800 enjoy park activities, arts & crafts, Facebook spotlights and model home tours at the village of Questa at Mountain House.
2011-05-26
[Attachments] See images for this press release:
ELSE PRESS RELEASES FROM THIS DATE:
Study reveals most biologically rich island in Southern Ocean
2011-05-26
The first comprehensive study of sea creatures around the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia reveals a region that is richer in biodiversity than even many tropical sites, such as the Galapagos Islands. The study provides an important benchmark to monitor how these species will respond to future environmental change.
Reporting this week in the online journal PLoS ONE, the team from British Antarctic Survey (BAS), funded by the British Government's Darwin Initiative and the South Georgia Heritage Trust, describe how they examined over 130 years of polar records. About ...
Discovery of a very massive, isolated star in a nearby galaxy
2011-05-26
Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the discovery of a very massive, isolated star in a galaxy near our Milky Way. Located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), the star VFTS 682 is one of the more massive stars ever known, because it is about 150 times the mass of the Sun. But the major surprise is that the star lies on its own and is not a member of a dense
star cluster.
The international team of astronomers [1] who are publishing this discovery is involved in a large survey of the Tarantula Nebula in the LMC. The region in and around the Tarantula
Nebula is a ...
Long-term study of swine flu viruses shows increasing viral diversity
2011-05-26
DURHAM, NC and SINGAPORE – Increased transportation of live pigs appears to have driven an increase in the diversity of swine influenza viruses found in the animals in Hong Kong over the last three decades, according to a new study.
In the longest study of its kind, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School researchers found that swine viruses crossed geographic borders and mixed with local viruses, increasing their diversity.
"The majority of reported human infections have been people with close contact to farm animals," said Vijaykrishna Dhanasekaran, Ph.D., an assistant professor ...
Monkeys can play Monday morning quarterback too
2011-05-26
Regret has long been viewed as an exclusively human thought, one which helps prevent us from repeating bad choices but becomes debilitating when it triggers obsessive thoughts about past actions.
Now a new study by Yale University researchers shows that monkeys also can be Monday morning quarterbacks and visualize alternative, hypothetical outcomes. The findings, reported in the May 26 issue of the journal Neuron, pinpoint areas of the brain where this process takes place and may give scientists new clues into how to treat diseases such as depression and schizophrenia.
"Regret ...
SRC and UCLA advance design-dependent process monitoring for semiconductor wafer manufacturing
2011-05-26
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. - May 25, 2011 - Semiconductor Research
Corporation (SRC), the world's leading university-research consortium
for semiconductors and related technologies, and researchers from the
UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science have
developed a new method of design-dependent process monitoring for
semiconductor wafer manufacturing. The advance promises to provide
semiconductor chip manufacturing cost and productivity savings up to 15
percent, potentially increase profit per chip by as much as 12 percent
and ultimately lead ...
Scientists trick the brain into Barbie-doll size
2011-05-26
Imagine shrinking to the size of a doll in your sleep. When you wake up, will you perceive yourself as tiny or the world as being populated by giants? Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden may have found the answer.
According to the textbooks, our perception of size and distance is a product of how the brain interprets different visual cues, such as the size of an object on the retina and its movement across the visual field. Some researchers have claimed that our bodies also influence our perception of the world, so that the taller you are, the shorter distances ...
New tool aims to improve measurement of primary care depression outcomes
2011-05-26
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Primary care doctors have long been on the front lines of depression treatment. Depression is listed as a diagnosis for 1 in 10 office visits and primary care doctors prescribe more than half of all antidepressants.
Now doctors at the University of Michigan Health System have developed a new tool that may help family physicians better evaluate the extent to which a patient's depression has improved.
The issue, the researchers explain, is that the official definition of when a patient's symptoms are in remission doesn't always match up with what doctors ...
International trial finds polypill halves predicted heart disease and stroke risk
2011-05-26
The world's first international polypill trial has shown that a four-in-one combination pill can halve the predicted risk of heart disease and stroke. The results are published online today in the open access journal PLoS One [1].
The once-a-day polypill contains aspirin and agents to lower blood pressure and cholesterol. These drugs are currently prescribed separately to millions of patients and are known individually to cut the risk of disease, but many experts believe that combining them into a single pill will encourage people to take the medications more reliably.
The ...
Targeted adalimumab treatment can optimize long-term outcomes for patients with early RA
2011-05-26
Results of a study of 1032 patients with early (less than one year), active RA initially assessed response to treatment after 26 weeks with ADA 40mg every other week + MTX versus MTX alone. Results show that 44% of patients treated with the combination therapy achieved the target of sustained low disease activity at week 26, versus 24% of those treated with MTX alone. Patients reaching the target on ADA+MTX were considered responders and then further randomised to continue or withdraw from treatment with ADA 40mg every other week.
Patients who continued treatment maintained ...
Children experience wrist and finger pain when using gaming devices and mobile phones over time
2011-05-26
The study, involving 257 students, highlights that a higher degree of pain was experienced with the use of gaming devices compared to mobile phones. Pain reported by children using Xbox and Gameboy was statistically higher than pain reported for the iPhone (p=0.036 and p=0.042 respectively). Importantly, the length of time spent on the devices heightened the pain suffered, as the data demonstrated that length of time was independently associated with the pain reported, with the odds of reporting pain increasing by two (95* CI [1.50, 2.89, p END ...
LAST 30 PRESS RELEASES:
Yonsei University study finds air pollution sharply raises workplace accident risk
Why does ALS take away body movement? – The hidden burden that seals neurons’ fate
Is your ultra-HD TV worth it? Scientists measure the resolution limit of the human eye
Coronal mass ejections at the dawn of the solar system
Uncovering hyper-maturity and accelerated aging in the hippocampus
Earliest long-snouted fossil crocodile from Egypt reveals the African origins of seagoing crocs
Henna’s hidden healing: Treating fibrosis with a chemical derived from Lawsonia inermis
KIST demonstrates world's first ultra-precise, ultra-high-resolution distributed quantum sensor with 'entangled light'
Liver transplantation utilizing grafts donated after medical assistance in dying is feasible and has outcomes comparable to standard donation
Canada is failing the rising numbers of youth who use opioids
Opioid prescribing for pain is declining in Canada
Can inpatient care help address overdose crisis?
Discovering six new bat species is a treat for museum researchers
National emergency wakeup call as SEND support system crisis worsens – latest analysis shows
New drug-eluting balloon may be as safe and effective as conventional metal stents for repeat percutaneous coronary interventions
Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of automated external defibrillators in private homes
University of Phoenix College of Social and Behavioral Sciences leadership publishes white paper on trauma-informed education
Microbial iron mining: turning polluted soils into self-cleaning reactors
Molecular snapshots reveal how the body knows it’s too hot
Analysis finds alarming rise in severe diverticulitis among younger Americans
Mitochondria and lysosomes reprogram immune cells that dampen inflammation
Cockroach infestation linked to home allergen, endotoxin levels
New biochar-powered microbial systems offer sustainable solution for toxic pollutants
Identifying the best high-biomass sorghum hybrids based on biomass yield potential and feedstock quality affected by nitrogen fertility management under various environments
How HIV’s shape-shifting protein reveals clues for smarter drug design
Study identifies viral combinations that heighten risk of severe respiratory illnesses in infants
Aboveground rather than belowground productivity drives variability in miscanthus × giganteus net primary productivity
Making yeast more efficient 'cell factories' for producing valuable plant compounds
Aging in plain sight: What new research says the eyes reveal about aging and cardiovascular risk
Child welfare system involvement may improve diagnosis of developmental delays
[Press-News.org] Bay Area Families and Mountain House Residents Share "100% Celebration" Day of Family Activities, New Home Tours and Social Media FunClose to 800 enjoy park activities, arts & crafts, Facebook spotlights and model home tours at the village of Questa at Mountain House.