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Steuart-Kret Homes is building 292 single-family homes at Agricopia in La Plata. The four-bedroom Augusta model, with 3,307 square feet, is priced from $456,900.
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The Augusta model includes a den, a family room, a formal living room and a formal dining room on the main level in addition to the center-island kitchen and breakfast area, a powder room and a laundry room. Upstairs are four bedrooms and three full baths.
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An American flag hangs off the back of a ladder truck as emergency vehicles fill the parking area at a cemetery during the service for Lt. Shannon Stone of the Brownwood Fire Department Monday, July 11, 2011, in Brownwood, Texas. Stone was fatally injured trying to catch a souvenir baseball at a Texas Rangers game. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Area residents Steve and Ky McDorman stand by the roadside as a funeral procession of emergency vehicles for Lt. Shannon Stone of the Brownwood Fire Department drives by on Monday, July 11, 2011 (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Family members follow the procession with the fire truck carrying the casket of Brownwood firefighter Lt. Shannon Stone after the funeral in Brownwood on Monday, July 11, 2011. (AP Photo/Star-Telegram, Joyce Marshall)
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Firefighters sit at the back of the fire truck carrying the casket of Brownwood firefighter Shannon Stone on the way to the cemetary after his funeral. (AP Photo/Star-Telegram, Joyce Marshall)
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People stand on the side of the road as emergency vehicles in a funeral processional for Brownwood firefighter Lt. Shannon Stone make their way down the road in Brownwood, Texas. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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Curt Flood made three All-Star appearances the 1960s. He played 13 games for the Washington Senators in 1971 before retiring. (Associated Press)
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Less than nine months after he was fired from National Public Radio, Juan Williams has struck back with "Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate." (Crown Publishing Group)
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Rescuers try to locate passengers from a tourist boat that sank on the Volga River in central Russia on Sunday, July 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations)
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** FILE ** A payload canister named "Raffello," seen here in early June at the Space Station Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., is on board the space shuttle Atlantis with a cargo of supplies. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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Afghans stand at the scene where a guard opened fire at a NATO-escorted reconstruction convoy in Dara, Panjshir province, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, July 9, 2011. The shooter killed a NATO service member and a civilian working for the coalition before being killed by return fire, the provincial police chief said. (AP Photo)
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A crowd gathers at the wreckage of the Kalka Mail passenger train, which derailed near the town of Fatehpur in India's Uttar Pradesh state, on Sunday, July 10, 2011. (AP Photo)
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In this combo of two photos, people walk along Prefectural Highway 30 sandwiched by floodwaters in Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, on March 24, 2011, after the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the area, top, and the same area, bottom, with an earth mover goes on reconstruction work as photographed on June 4, 2011. A strong earthquake hit hit Japan's northeastern coast on Sunday, but there were not any immediate reports of damage.
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Donnie Green of Sanford, Fla., sells T-shirts on Friday, July 8, 2011, to drivers and passengers stuck in traffic on Route 1 in Titusville, Fla., following the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis at the Kennedy Space Center. (J.M. Eddins Jr./The Washington Times)
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The wreckage of a small plane sticks out of the side of an unoccupied office building at Watsonville Community Hospital on July 7, 2011, in Watsonville, Calif. The plane had just taken off from the Watsonville Municipal Airport. Two people were killed in the crash. (Associated Press/The Sentinel)
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In the new comedy "Horrible Bosses," Jennifer Aniston plays a sexually deviant dentist who harasses her assistant (Charlie Day). The film centers around three employees who hatch a plot to kill each other's bosses. (Warner Bros. Pictures via Associated Press)
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Metro General Manager Richard Sarles declined to say Thursday whether he prefers the design for an underground rail station at Washington Dulles International Airport or a cheaper above-ground alternative. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)
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Villagers and policemen look at the wreckage of a bus after it was hit by a train at a railroad crossing near Kanshiramnagar, a village 220 miles southwest of Lucknow, India, on Thursday, July 7, 2011. At least 35 people returning from a wedding party died in the crash, an official said. (AP Photo)
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Photographs courtesy of Eric Kieley Photography Toll Bros. is building homes on 1-acre sites at the Reserve at Triadelphia Crossing in Glenelg. Buyers can choose from four home styles priced from $1,018,995 to $1,065,995.
