Nearly a decade after the project’s conception, an age-restricted community a stone’s throw from Saucon Valley Country Club is open for business Monday.

Old Saucon Investment LP laid groundwork in the fall for the first 33 of 80 single-family homes that will comprise the “Cottages at Old Saucon,” custom-built homes ranging from 1,800 to 3,700 square feet and starting at $590,000, off Route 378 and Colesville Road in Upper Saucon Township.

By the project’s completion, the “cottages” will have an accompanying “village”: an adjacent 80,000-square-foot commercial retail center with “distinctive eateries, banks, offices and fine retail,” according to marketing material by SVN Imperial Realty.

Upper Saucon Township officials first approved a plan for “Old Saucon,” a mixed-use, village-style senior living community on approximately 68 acres, in 2011.

“People have known about this community for a while,” said listing agent Katie Granson Cassese of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, Fox & Roach Realtors.

She said the developer took that time finding the right builder to strike the desired standard of quality, custom homes.

The developer has been working on the latest iteration of the project with Erwin Forrest Builders for about a year, she said.

Monday, the floor plans are available and agents will begin taking lot deposits.

Those deposits are refundable until interested buyers are allowed to look at the lots, she said, given that Gov. Tom Wolf’s current essential business shutdown includes in-person real estate services.

"If people are ready to make decisions virtually, we’re capable of doing that," she said.

The developer is still in the process of securing tenants for the commercial portion.

More information is at oldsaucon.com.

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