Parkwood Homes is a unique home building company recognized for excellent design, quality construction, enduring value and outstanding customer service. We are committed to new urbanism and neo-traditional communities and homes. We believe that new development can and should emulate the best cities and towns in the world—that adherence to correct architectural and urban design principals can provide the look and feel of great American towns and neighborhoods like Charleston, Cambridge, Saratoga Springs, Annapolis, St. Michaels, and Georgetown. Further, we believe that new urbanism is the best remedy for the ills of suburban sprawl—we work to build sustainable new urbanist neighborhoods that not only look and feel good, but bring families closer to where they work, play, and eat, reduce commute times, and reverse environmental degradation. We subscribe to the tenets proscribed in the Charter of the New Urbanism. Our vision of the power of well-planned communities is rooted in our involvement with the nationally acclaimed neo-traditional community of Kentlands, Maryland. We were a part of the acquisition, planning, and development of Kentlands from its inception in 1987. Kentlands was featured as Time Magazine’s Best Community of 1991, and has enjoyed broad national media acclaim as perhaps America’s best neo-traditional development. In 1991, we founded Parkwood Homes and began building cottages, custom homes, detached homes, townhomes and Live/Work units in Kentlands, ultimately becoming the community’s largest builder. Since then, Parkwood Homes has continued building homes in other great new neighborhoods: first in Kentlands’ adjoining community, Lakelands, and currently in Urbana, Maryland and Stapleton, in Denver, Colorado. Stapleton, the nation’s largest urban redevelopment, was recently featured in the Urban Land Institute’s February 2006 Urban Land magazine, where it was named among “Ten planned communities [that] attempt to reconcile American nostalgia for older towns with the realities of the 21st century.” Our homes, townhomes, and live-work buildings include the latest technologies and conveniences set in a flexible floor plan, but are based on the best of America’s Traditional architectural styles. In the early 1880s, following America’s centennial celebrations, a feeling of nostalgia and American pride was sweeping the nation. Architects began publishing books and articles describing the “good old days,” encouraging preservation and highlighting architecture in great American seaside towns like Newport, Cape Ann, Nantucket, Cape Cod, and Martha’s Vineyard. Americans were captivated by the images of wholesome seaside simplicity in contrast to their increasingly complex, industrialized world, with its crowded and unhealthy cities. All over the country, houses were built based on the fundamentals of Colonial architecture—Victorian, Federalist, Greek Revival, Dutch Colonial, Gothic Revival, Tidewater, and Queen Anne. Ever since this architectural renaissance, American families have found comfort and a sense of home in the simple, sensible forms of Traditional American Architecture. Parkwood Homes strives to incorporate the best aspects of these architectural traditions into everything we build. Parkwood Homes makes its home in the Kentlands in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and currently builds in Urbana, Maryland and Denver, Colorado. Parkwood Homes has been featured in The Washington Post, as well as Professional Builder and Kiplinger’s magazines. Over the years we have strengthened our original vision. We are not a large, national production builder. We instead are committed to building a small number of excellent homes each year, crafting a product that families can be proud of. Parkwood Homes - Great neighborhoods.  Timeless architecture.  Enduring value.  Welcome Home. NEW URBANISM   Charter of the New Urbanism KENTLANDS   Washington Post PARKWOOD HOMES   Professional Builder: Living the Live/Work Niche   Washington Post: Homework: When your Business is Life, Living Above the Store Has Its Benefits   Professional Builder: Manifest Density   TIME: Best of 1991