January 2009 Travel & Leisure Golf Names "Top 100 Real Estate Communities"
Bend, Oregon: Pronghorn
Six hundred paces into the volcanic caverns beneath the Fazio golf course at Pronghorn is an unlikely office where Ron Davis, the community’s director of development, toils by lamplight with old Pink Floyd albums as background music. Davis emerged one day from his nontraditional workstation with sketches and plans for Tesana, a new enclave within this ever-evolving high-desert community. An influential California architecture firm, Bassenian/Lagoni, executed the idea in a style that merges Tuscan villa living with a “contemporary organic” theme drawn from Frank Lloyd Wright. These homes have smaller footprints and price tags than most Pronghorn housing, but an enviable location on “the peninsula” between two (distinctly different) golf courses. Their arrival is Pronghorn’s big news maker of 2008. Start-up of construction on a long-awaited hotel will be 2009’s major move.
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