Community: Coffee Creek Center
Address: 1010 Sand Creek Drive South
City: Chesterton
State: Indiana
Zip Code: 46304
Price Ranges: Single Family Homes From $250k
Cost of Living Index: 91.02
Total Households: 3000
Founded In: 1999
Phone: (219)395-5300
Community Website: www.coffeecreekcenter.com
About the Community:
Welcome to the Neighborhood
Live, Work, Play
A neo-traditional community setting standards in land use sustainability, ecology & quality of life. Located 50 miles southeast of Chicago near the southern shores of Lake Michigan, Coffee Creek Center includes commercial office and retail space.
As one of the world's 26 most innovative planned communities, Coffee Creek Center is being designed as a model for future development.
Coffee Creek Center integrates the natural and the built into a seamless whole. A comprehensive set of architectural standards and design principles create the charm, character and function of walkable communities of the past.
Building in Coffee Creek Center is designed to favor human scale, as well as relationship to the traditions of architecture in the Northwest Indiana region. Cheap, temporal buildings so common in conventional sprawl, will give way to buildings with a sense of permanence and heritage.
Buildings are given priority and parking areas are tucked away behind most locations. Building setbacks are brought toward the street, allowing safe and enjoyable pedestrian access to facilities. The outdoor space, including features such as building heights, setbacks, road widths, parking and street trees, is being designed to create an outdoor room, built at human, pedestrian scale.
While greenspace has become a feature of several new developments, few have looked beyond the purely aesthetic reasons for the inclusion of greater amounts of greenspace. A primary reason that Coffee Creek Center devotes an almost unsurpassed one-third of the acreage to greenspace is founded on innovative sustainability concepts. While the land contains only 17 acres of non-buildable areas and wetlands, nearly 250 acres will be contained in the preserved greenspace, parks and constructed wetlands.
The restoration of the Coffee Creek corridor is being implemented with guidance of the world's top environmentalists to return pre-settlement systems to the landscape. In addition to the corridor, unique features in the built environment further the vertical infiltration of water. The Coffee Creek Center project is the first in the country to prove the concepts of civil engineering without traditional expensive and destructive storm water drainage systems, while providing a wide range of shared community open space.
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