FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

June 26, 2006

Pringle Creek Community is Becoming a Reality

Just like the plants in your garden, Pringle Creek Community is coming out of the ground with new vitality. After eighteen months of sustainable site planning and coordination with the City of Salem, Pringle Creek Community is seeing its residential neighborhood of 139 residential lots, parks, walking trails and gardens become a reality.

Local contractor, North Santiam Paving, has completed the surveying and started installing the underground utilities in early June. For the remainder of the summer, crews will be on-site six days a week building streets, pathways and preparing lots for home construction. To embrace the green building practices of this project, Norh Santiam is using biodiesel in some of their trucks and heavy equipment.

This is first step towards completing an innovative “green street” system, designed to naturally infiltrate 90% of the rainwater back into the aquifer and preserve 80% of the existing trees while enhancing Pringle Creek and its natural wetlands.

A variety of housing types are planned for the community, including single-family homes, cottages and rowhouses. In late summer or early fall, residents will be able to purchase lots and start designing and building their own homes. Pringle Creek Community is putting together a residential “green building” program of qualified builders and architects, along with design and building guidelines to ensure the livability of the community. The developers will build a “one of a kind” central plaza featuring several commercial mixed-use buildings.

Pringle Creek Community is one of the most sustainable developments under construction in the United States. For more information about this innovative development, please visit www.pringlecreek.com or contact Don Myers of Sustainable Development, Inc. at 503-930-4541.