Konterra Development Broke Ground Last Week
Forty plus years in the making, the planned community at Konterra broke ground last week and the first of 240 townhomes are expected to be completed by this fall.
It begins an expected decade-long unfolding of development across the 3,000 acres to contain multiple mini-communities of townhomes, apartments, retail amenities, a grocery store, walking/ biking trails, and greenspace.
Konterra may also be a vanguard of a mounting ‘sustainable growth’ movement that looks to counter the tide of the post-war ‘single family zoning’ that has led to sprawling subdivisions separated from jobs and amenities and that can fracture a locale. Developer Caleb Gould has stated that the neighborhood isn’t about idealism, but “It [is] about building a resilient and adaptable community that will last for generations.”
For additional info, you can find some great coverage in this Baltimore Banner article, which also quotes yours truly sharing memories from when I was a kid in Laurel first seeing Konterra start to now being able to seeing the vision come to life as an adult. 🙂
You can also find information in my blog post on Konterra from last summer, on Konterra’s website, and links about ‘sustainable growth’ in my Strong Towns post back in February.
