Abberly Crest Reflects Nationwide Lifestyle Changes
The Willows Road corridor, south of Naval Air Station Patuxent River, does not reflect the housing slowdown engulfing the nation the past few years. Instead, it has reflected the national shift to a more urban lifestyle by developing contemporary apartment communities.
Abberly Crest Apartment Homes emerged as the premier choice of many large government contractors who seek short-term, long-term and even permanent housing for personnel coming to the Lexington Park, Maryland area. This success fed further growth. Earlier this year, Abberly Crest Apartment Homes, already a 490-apartment community, received approval to build 158 more apartments, a clubhouse and another pool.
The bulk of new homes come from development of upscale apartments and townhouses. The newest and most contemporary of these are along Willows Road, accessible via a single left turn two blocks outside Pax River’s Gate 2.
As with other communities along Willows Road, Abberly Crest Apartment Homes offers both proximity and a reverse commute to the Navy base. Additionally, Abberly Crest Apartment Homes are near the Route 5 end of the Willows Run corridor. That means, while Abberly Crest Apartment Homes have their front doors a few minutes away from some of the most important work being conducted in the world today, its back doors open onto the rolling hills and rural countryside of Southern Maryland.
Willows Road connects the two major highways serving St. Mary’s County. Maryland Route 235, where Pax River is located, and Route 5. A few minutes south of the Route 5 intersection is St. Mary’s College, named again this year by U.S. News & World Report as one of the top 100 national liberal arts colleges. In the publication’s “Best Colleges” 2013 edition, St. Mary’s College is ranked one of the top five public liberal arts colleges in the nation.
The continuing success of new communities developed along Willows Road reflects a housing reversal of nearly a century, according to a Brookings Institute reported released this year.
“… for the first time in more than nine decades,” the 2010-2011 study reports, “the major cities of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas grew faster than their combined suburbs. At least temporarily, this puts the brakes on a longstanding staple of American life—the pervasive suburbanization of its population.”
This is occurring even in the much more rural region of Southern Maryland. The region’s residential growth, even through these past years of stalled construction activity elsewhere, has been most obvious in the communities closest to the area’s employment hub, Pax River.
The Brookings study goes on to state, “some cities may be seeing a population renaissance based on efforts to attract and retain young people, families and professionals. ”
