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Van Metre Homes is building 14 single-family homes on half-acre sites at Parkgrove in Broadlands. The Avery model, with 4,300 square feet, is priced from $787,490.

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The Avery model features a morning room, center-island kitchen and family room across the back of the main level. Upstairs are four bedrooms, each with a private bath, and a laundry room.

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A skateboarder rides through an opened fire hydrant in Detroit, Thursday, July 21, 2011 where the National Weather Service says the temperature is expected to reach 100. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

STS-135 shuttle pilot Doug Hurley gives a thumbs up during the post-landing news conference at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Thursday, July 21, 2011. The landing of the space shuttle Atlantis marks the end of NASA's 30-year shuttle program. (AP Photo/J. Pat Carter)

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Members of Rage Mohamed's family are overtaken by a dust storm as they try to build a makeshift shelter on the outskirts of the world's largest refugee camp in Dadaab, Kenya, this month. It took the 15-member family five days to walk to the camp from their drought-stricken home in Somalia. (Associated Press)

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Somali women displaced by drought wait to receive rations at a camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, on July 20. Southern parts of Somalia are experiencing famine, a U.N. official said Wednesday, and tens of thousands of Somalis have already died in the worst hunger emergency in a generation. (Associated Press)

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Emergency crews work to save a mother and her four children after the family was pulled from a burning house in Medford, Ore., on Monday, July 18, 2011. Authorities believe the five, all of whom died, were stabbed and suffered smoke inhalation. (AP Photo/Mail Tribune, Bob Pennell)

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A new home is under construction in Springfield, Ill., on Thursday, July 14, 2011. Builders broke ground on more single-family homes and apartments in June as the home-construction industry tried to shake off a historically bad spring. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Rachelle Friedman has her photo made by wedding photographer Martha Manning during the fitting for her wedding dress in Raleigh, N.C. Miss Friedman was left paralyzed after a pool accident that postponed her wedding plans.

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The main stage at the Ottawa Bluesfest collapsed during a severe thunderstorm that sent thousands of people running for cover on Sunday, July 17, 2011, in Ottawa. (AP Photo/Canadian Press, Leon Switzer)

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Aya Miyama's decisive goal slams into the net as U.S. goalkeeper Hope Solo watches. (Associated Press)

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Motorists wave as they drive on the reopened stretch of Interstate 405, Drivers honked their horns and waved from car windows as traffic started moving in all 10 lanes just after noon Sunday for the first time since the interstate was shut down at midnight Friday. (Associated Press)