Places to Live

What’s not to love about Minnesota communities: Picturesque residential neighborhoods with parks, trail systems, and community gathering places. Access to high-caliber education, world-class museums, vibrant culture, and hometown sports teams. Recreation in some of the best regional and state park systems in the nation.

The 21st century lifestyle is focused around a renewed sense of community, walkable neighborhoods, and leisure activities close to home. Developers have responded. Urban living today means home is a condominium with on-site recreation facilities, fitness rooms, or shops and restaurants on the ground floor. Suburban neighborhoods increasingly come complete with private community centers, pools, parks, trails, and neighborhood activities directors. This is the good life, and the newest places to call home offer it in generous helpings.

CNN/Money Magazine frequently names Minnesota communities to its list of Best Places to Live in the United States. In 2008 alone, the Twin Cities suburb of Plymouth took the top spot. Other local cities in 2008’s top 50: Eagan, Apple Valley, Lakeville, Eden Prairie, Maple Grove, and Burnsville.

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HILLARY FARM

Gem Lake, MN (near White Bear Lake)

McNulty Homes
612-339-0674
www.hillaryfarm.com
www.mcnultyhomes.com

Hillary Farm features…

• Country estate living less than 15 minutes north of downtown St. Paul
• 29 estate home sites on 87 acres, with woods, lake, wetlands, and meadow views
• Home site sizes between 2 and 6.5 acres, priced from the upper $200,000s
• Private road and walking trails

What are the perks of living here?

Hillary Farm is tucked among woods and meadows in the small community of Gem Lake. It’s located just southwest of White Bear Lake, near shops, parks, schools, several lakes, North Oaks and Dellwood Hills County Clubs, and White Bear Yacht Club. This enclave of acreage home sites is quiet and private, yet it offers easy access to I-35E and I-694. Hillary Farm is only 13 minutes from downtown St. Paul and 21 minutes from downtown Minneapolis.

You may not know…

Hillary Farm is available to all approved home builders and can offer custom home packages starting below a million dollars. Several homes have already been built and designed by McNulty Homes, and
McNulty’s 2009 Luxury Home Tour model is now under construction.

Why call Hillary Farm home?

Hillary Farm is a “close in” convenient location within a pastoral setting. The neighborhood offers beautiful custom homes with wonderful estate home sites and views, including sites fronting Gem Lake and the Gem Lake Hills Golf Course.

SENSE OF PLACE Hillary Farm is a “close in” and convenient location within a pastoral country setting. This enclave of acreage home sites is quiet and private, yet it offers easy access to the heart of the Twin Cities.

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HILLDALE OF INTERLACHEN

Schrader & Companies
Edina, MN

612-741-8499
www.schradercompanies.com

Hilldale of Interlachen features…

• New single-family home on a cul-de-sac.
• Set in one of Edina’s most picturesque and desirable neighborhoods.

A place to call home…

Hilldale of Interlachen is known for its large lots, bordered by gorgeous tree-lined streets, with established homes and estates. It’s a particularly family-friendly, upscale neighborhood with a variety of classic homes and top-of-the-line new construction. Located just west of Hwy. 100 in the Edina School District, the neighborhood offers easy access to the 50th & France area, the Interlachen and Edina Country Clubs, parks, and shopping.

What can’t you live without in your home?

"Windows.”
–Ali Awad, Awad + Koontz

“Organization is a top priority in a home. This includes not only the obvious need for a great design layout and storage rooms, but also the convenience of built-ins.”
–Hamid Kashani, Habitat Architecture

“Trees, shrubs, annuals, and perennials.”
–Jon Horsman, Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association

“Good lighting and a dimmer switch; the living room needs low-level intimate lighting, the kitchen, brightness as well as task lighting.”
–Elizabeth Cohen, RCC Interiors

“Our kitchen table. It is the center of our life at home with young kids.”
–Mark Larson and Jean Rehkamp Larson, Rehkamp Larson Architects

“A crushed ice dispenser.”
–Tina Plant, Hedberg Landscape & Masonry Supplies

“The sense of openness that unites the great room with the kitchen.”
–Jack Smuckler, Smuckler Custom Builders and Smuckler Architects

“At least one quiet space free of televisions, computers, and phones.”
–Mark Hoiseth, Stonehouse Designs, Inc.

“Our large walk-in pantry with countertops and cabinets. It has provided us with the extra space not only to store all of our goods, but to keep our extra appliances out of the way.”
–Rob Eldridge, Ridge Creek Custom Homes

“My small outdoor hot tub on clear winter nights, or when the snow is lightly falling.”
–Ed Roskowinski, Vujovich Design Build

“Heated stone floors!”
–Dawn Marie Peterson, Kate-Lo Tile & Stone

“A sofa in the kitchen, so that family closeness and cooking can happen at the same time.”
–Christine Albertsson and Todd Hansen, Albertsson Hansen Architecture

“There is nothing more important than a beautifully made and designed bed. It feeds both the soul and the body.”
–Mary Hickey, Gunkelman Flesher Interior Design

“My TOTO Neorest 5000. Anything else is barbaric.”
–Michael Anschel, Otogawa-Anschel Design-Build