Each Ashton Woods home functions as a private oasis designed and built for specific types of homeowners—from first-time buyers and young families to empty nesters and retirees. Ashton Woods’ signature design elements include a breathtaking use of space and light and rooms that flow seamlessly from one to another with unexpected delights around every corner. A host of elegant accents, luxury finishes and sophisticated appointments complete the picture. All these features and many others combine to make Ashton Woods homes as unique as the people who own them.
Four Ashton Woods employees are listed among the nation’s best, receiving The Nationals 2014 Silver Awards presented by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB). It is a repeat win for each of them this year.
Shawnda Lancaster was one of seven throughout the nation named Sales Manager of the Year. It is the second time Lancaster has been honored this year for her managerial skills, winning the same title in the Houston’s Best PRISM Awards hosted by the Greater Houston Association of Builders.
Ashton Woods’ Margaret Greenwood won a Rookie of the Year Silver Award, joining four others in the honor. Greenwood won Rookie Sales Professional of the Year earlier in 2013 in the Texas Association of Builders’ Star Awards.
Long-time Ashton Woods sales representative Paul Lim is one of six in the nation to win a Silver Award for Sales Person of the Year. He also won Sales Professional of the Year in the Texas Star Awards this year.
Finally, Carrie Roehling was named Marketing Director of the Year, one of six to earn that honor in the Silver Awards. It is Roehling’s third honor this year, having won Marketing Professional of the Year in the Texas Star Awards and Online Sales Professional of the Year in the Houston’s Best PRISM Awards.
Each of the Silver Award winners advance to the NAHB’s Gold Awards competition, with winners announced during the annual International Builders’ Show set for Feb. 4, 2014, in Las Vegas.
“These four people exhibit the creativity, innovativeness and diligence that has fueled Ashton Woods’ long success,” said Dan Gezella, vice president of sales and marketing for Ashton Woods Homes’ Houston division. “They have earned a place among the nation’s best and we are proud of their success.”
Ashton Woods also has won numerous awards this year for product design and interior merchandising. Ashton Woods has been named the #1 Most Trusted Homebuilder in America in the Lifestory Research Most Trusted Builders in America Study. For more information, visit www.ashtonwoodshomes.com.
Ashton Woods is touting its recently released homesites throughout Pearland’s Southern Trails, including a new neighborhood of 85-foot properties.
The builder is taking reservations for homesites in the new 85-foot enclave, with cul-de-sac and lake-view properties available. Construction of a model home in the neighborhood should begin this summer, with crews starting work on the first residences this fall. Prices begin in the $400,000s.
New homesites also are available in the popular Garden Estates neighborhood of Southern Trails, including cul-de-sac and oversized homesites, and in Ashton Woods’ 70-foot neighborhood of The Trails.
Each of the existing neighborhoods has homes ready this summer, with listed prices ranging from the $250,000s to the $390,000s.
Ashton Woods offers an array of one- and two-story designs in Southern Trails, ranging from 1,800 to more than 4,400 square feet. Base pricing starts in the $220,000s. As an added bonus for Southern Trails’ garden-home residents, front-lawn maintenance is included, allowing more time for leisure activities such as picnicking at the neighborhood’s community pavilion or adjacent putting green.
With access to Texas 288 and FM 521, Southern Trails is just 12 miles from the Texas Medical Center and the many nearby museums and attractions in that vicinity. Even closer is Pearland’s bustling retail corridor, which includes Pearland Town Center and a 150,000-square-foot H-E-B grocery store. Nearby Beltway 8 also offers convenient east-west access to other Houston-area destinations, such as William P. Hobby Airport and the Clear Lake region.
Within the community, Southern Trails residents enjoy a resort-style swimming complex that features a junior Olympic pool with an extensive deep swimming area, a toddler pool and a separate splash park. A Prairie-style recreation center with meeting rooms and 24-hour fitness facility completes the area. A pedestrian tunnel below Southern Trails Drive offers residents safe access to the center.
Students attend schools in the Alvin Independent School District, including Laura Ingalls Wilder Elementary, Nolan Ryan Junior High School and Manvel High School.