Shea Homes to build Summerlin community

Shea Homes is expanding in Las Vegas with a second age-qualified community, Trilogy in Summerlin.

This will be the first Trilogy in Las Vegas for the homebuilder, who manages Ardiente in North Las Vegas, a single-family community. The project also is one of the few new attached-home projects in the valley. The company is calling the units “paired homes,” as they share one wall. The age-qualified community will be on the corner of Town Center and Flamingo drives and will be on 53.5 acres.

Construction on the infrastructure of the community is underway, and work will begin on model homes in late summer or early fall. Six models are slated to open in early 2018.

Kyle Tibbits, general manager for Shea Homes, said the developer is bringing Trilogy to Las Vegas because they see a demand for communities that cater to the 55-and-older demographic.

“There’s been age-qualified communities in the past, but over the last several years there has not been a lot, and we believe that the valley can support it and the demand is there for an age-qualified community,” Tibbits said.

“Trilogy is an incredible product and community that we have across the nation, and Las Vegas is a great location for it, especially in Summerlin where we can bring a highly amenitized lifestyle.”

Dennis Smith, founder of Home Builders Research, said because baby boomers have become a major part of the housing market in areas of the Southwest such as Phoenix and Las Vegas, it’s natural to offer more age-restricted communities if builders can find the land to build them.

Trilogy will be a guard-gated community with 354 homes that range from 1,550 to 2,800 square feet. Three types of living will be offered including paired courtyard single-story homes, luxury condominiums with single-level living and patio homes.

Twelve floor plans will be available, and each home will have its own garage.

A resort club will be on site with amenities, including a swimming pool and lap pool, fitness center, art studio, culinary kitchen for cooking demos, a rooftop deck, bocce ball courts and indoor-outdoor living spaces.

Tibbots said Trilogy will incorporate a variety of indoor-outdoor living spaces within the homes and the clubhouse.

“You’ll walk into a courtyard, and that space will open into the home, and that opens into rolling glass walls that opens into the kitchen and great room area, and you can live indoor-outdoor extremely well,” Tibbits said. “The club will have large glass doors that go out to a grand living room. The living room will be a covered space that will be outdoors and it will feel like you are outdoors, but it will be covered.”

Tibbits said buyers are looking for something that lives the way they live.

“People continue to want open floor plans, especially here in Las Vegas, and indoor-outdoor space is important to have because you have such great weather many months of the year,” he said.

“As we continue to roll out new product and develop new homes, we are making sure we listen to our customers.”

Prices for Trilogy will start in the high $300,000s. The first homeowners are slated to move in during spring 2018.