Dear Friends of EYA, Best wishes for a happy and healthy new year. Our intent is regularly to update you on EYA’s current projects through its affiliated entities and more importantly to provide you with our perspectives on opportunities and challenges facing all of us in the DMV regarding residential development.

Dear Friends of EYA, Best wishes for a happy and healthy new year. Welcome to our inaugural issue of “Walking the Talk.” Our intent is regularly to update you on EYA’s current projects through its affiliated entities and more importantly to provide you with our perspectives on opportunities and challenges facing all of us in the DMV regarding residential development.

Purchasing a new construction home is an exciting process as you watch your dream home come to life. Many of the steps in purchasing a new construction home are similar to purchasing a resale, such as signing a contract and securing a loan. However, since the home is new, there are a few additional steps to not only finalize the sale, but also to make the home your own such as selecting options and meeting with the builder for walk-throughs during various stages of the building process.

Tom Maddox has seen Rockville’s landscape change dramatically since he was a boy in the 1940s. “From the center of Rockville, you didn’t have to go three miles without encountering a working farm,” says Maddox, the third generation in a family of surveyors who’ve helped developers transform the city and its surroundings from a rural outpost in the 19th century into the thriving metropolitan suburb it is today. Yet Rockville’s pastoral legacy runs deep, where neighborhoods such as King Farm and North Farm refer to their previous incarnations, and Dawson Farm Park combines public open space with the property’s two original 19th-century farmhouse buildings.

As we welcome a New Year at the stroke of midnight on December 31st, many of us see the calendar starting again as a chance to instill our own new beginnings. An annual time to reassess and realign our goals, it’s also a chance to recharge, reset, and reflect on our habits, mindsets, and lifestyle. At the heart of most resolutions lists is a hope to find an overall healthier and happier lifestyle. Often this can be achieved by incorporating and practicing wellness in our daily lives.

Have you ever wanted to see your favorite inspirational interior design photos come to life? Now's your chance! We're hosting our first ever Interior Design Throwdown, where the winning design will be featured this spring in a model home at Tower Oaks, our newest Rockville, MD community.