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Van Metre Homes' Soho model at Lansdowne Town Center in Leesburg has a center-island kitchen with 42-inch maple cabinets and granite counters. It has 1,407 square feet and is priced from $249,990.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Retired Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen on Tuesday looks over a Conductivity-Temperature-Depth carousel, which is used to assist Deepwater Horizon oil spill response efforts by capturing subsurface water samples on the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana.
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This image provided by NASA shows the eye of Hurricane Igor taken from the International Space Station Tuesday Sept.14, 2010, by astronaut Douglas Wheelock. At midnight Sept. 15, 2010, Igor was about 1140 miles southeast of Bermuda with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph moving to the west-northwest at 9 mph. (AP Photo/NASA - Doug Wheelock)
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In this Dec. 20, 1943 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, B-17G Flying Fortress airplanes are shown being built at Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this 1937 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, Boeing's historic "Plant 2," which opened in 1936, is shown in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this 1937 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, Boeing's historic "Plant 2," which opened in 1936, is shown in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this June 16, 1945 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle, is shown covered in camouflage designed to make it look like a residential neighborhood when viewed from the air to protect it from air-based attacks during World War II. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this Dec. 20, 1943 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, B-17G Flying Fortress airplanes are shown being built at Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this 1942 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, B-17E Flying Fortress airplanes are shown being built at Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this July 12, 1966 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, the first Boeing 737 airplane is shown being built at Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this March 19, 1954, photo from the Boeing Co. archive, a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress airplane is rolled out of Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this March 31, 1944 photo from the Boeing Co. archive, a B-17G Flying Fortress airplane is shown at Boeing's historic "Plant 2" in Seattle, with camouflage used to hide the building from aerial attacks during World War II visible on the roof. After giving birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft, the outdated facility is scheduled to be torn down in the fall of 2010. (AP Photo/Courtesy Boeing Co.)
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In this image courtesy of Globovision Television News, people surrounds the wreckage of an airplane of a state airline Conviasa after it crashed about 6 miles from the eastern city of Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, Monday, Sept. 13, 2010. The plane was carrying 51 people, and officials said at least 33 people survived.(AP Photo/Globovison)
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This Monday Sept. 13, 2010, satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Igor, left, east of the Northern Leeward Islands and Tropical Storm Julia, right, south-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands. Igor threatened to become a Category 5 storm Monday as it churned far out over the Atlantic Ocean. (AP Photo/NOAA)
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This undated handout photo provided by Samantha Joye, UGA Department of Marine Sciences, shows a layer of oil on a sediment core. Researchers are finding oil dripping "all over the place" on the Gulf of Mexico sea floor, some as much as two inches thick. A University of Georgia scientific cruise is collecting at least ten instances of what appears to be fresh oil on the sea floor emanating out from the site of BP oil rig disaster. (AP Photo/Samantha Joye)
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A slurry bomber drops retardant on a burning ridge as the sun sets behind it as a wildfire burns west of Loveland, Colo., on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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A helicopter flies over the Flatiron fire burning northwest of Loveland, Colo., Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. Fire officials are telling residents near Flatiron Reservoir and Carter Lake to leave their homes and evacuate to Loveland in northern Colorado because of a 30-acre wildfire. (AP Photo/The Coloradoan, Dawn Madura)
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A door bell on a gate post was the only thing that survived a wildfire burning west of Boulder, Colo., on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. Some homeowners were allowed to return to their property on Sunday for the first time since the fire began on Labor Day. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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Walter Plywaski, 81, bends a piece of pipe found in the ashes of his home west of Boulder, Colo., on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010. Plywaski lost his house and a cabin the the wildfire that destroyed 169 homes. He returned to the property for the first time since the fire began on Labor Day. (AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)
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Smoke raises in the air from a wildland fire as seen from Highway 257 near the town of Johnstown, Colo., Sunday Sept. 12, 2010. Fire officials are telling residents near Flatiron Reservoir and Carter Lake to leave their homes and evacuate to Loveland in northern Colorado because of a 30-acre wildfire. (AP Photo/The Greeley Tribune, Jim Rydbom)
