The Emerald By The Sea High-rise overlooking Galveston Beach Defines The "New Urbanism" Lifestyle

Galveston's Emerald By The Sea has the walkable lifestyle and green living features that are a textbook example of the popular new-urbanism movement that is re-defining American life.

New Urbanism is an urban design movement that arose in the United States in the early 1980s. Its goal is to reform many aspects of real estate development and urban planning, from urban retrofits to suburban infill. New urbanist neighborhoods are designed to contain a diverse range of housing and jobs, and to be walkable.

The Emerald By The Sea proved it's sustainable coastal community design as the best example of storm resistant construction during hurricane Ike and was even used as the example in the follow-on FEMA study. Building the living spaces high above ground over the parking garage may not yield the most condos for the profit of the developer - but it yields the safest facility for the individual owners and provides peace-of-mind that adds to the quality of life someone owns beach area property for to begin with.

But there is much more to the Emerald than being the best storm resistant design, the Emerald represents a new class of high rise for the Texas coast, it's beautiful, everyone who walks into the Emerald and experiences the spectacular views and quality finishing says "wow".

And the Emerald's walkable location and amenities make it a textbook example of "new urbanism". At the Emerald you can safely park your car in the secure parking under your resort condominium and throw away the keys.

Within walking distance of the Emerald is every conceivable need:

• Beach
• Park
• High-end restaurants
• Fast Food
• Coffee Shop
• Health Care
• Pharmacy
• Grocery Store
• Convenient Store
• Hair Salon
• Gift Shops
• Art Gallery
• Banking
• Churches
• and more

Take a look at this Google Earth image that shows some of the life sustaining assets that are within easy walking distance of the Emerald By The Sea


The Emerald By The Sea is also a great value with prices that are comparable to facilities of far lessor stature and conveniences - combined with full resort amenities built-in like the movie theater, ocean view pool, complete exercise facility, sky bar area and more.

The Emerald by the sea offers all this - and it's Surprisingly affordable, it even has Comparatively low HOA fees that are competitive with regular condominiums. One of the reasons has to do with the fact that many of the Emerald's benefits are the result of its great location in the middle of all it all. To build a new resort that offers all the Emerald provides would make the costs and HOA fees many times more - making the Emerald one of the best values - and the best quality-of-life on the Texas coast.

The Emerald By The Sea is a newly completed luxury high-rise condominium overlooking the Galveston Beach AND Bay that is ready to move in and ready to completely enjoy today! There is no risk of completion, no guess work of what it might look like and no worries about what amenities might be left out.

What you see, is what you get, and what you'll experience  - will be love at first sight!

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