Saturday, April 24th is National Cohousing Open House Day! Gainesville Cohousing will be participating by hosting a live virtual tour of our community for anyone who is interested on Facebook. This live event is scheduled to begin at 1pm EST. See you there! www.Facebook.com/Gainesvillecohousing
Did you ever get into your car on a hot summer day in Florida and feel like a pizza being slipped into an oven? Eight households at Gainesville Cohousing are hoping to avoid that fate, thanks to the installation of carports in the community’s parking lot. The carport structure is a pre-engineered kit that was adapted for us from Barn Kits of America. The columns are 8×8 pressure treated wood set in concrete, the beams and Read more…
During especially difficult times it’s especially gratifying to live in a community like Gainesville Cohousing. Like the rest of the country, our lives have been affected by the social distancing requirements to Covid-19. But we do have some important compensations. The community is designed so that people may walk down the street and encounter any number of neighbors sitting out on their front porches. We can easily converse with one another from a safe distance. Read more…
Someone recently asked me to tell them the story of how Gainesville Cohousing got started. It’s a story I’ve told many times. I talk about the group that existed before our current community came together. How my husband and I invited the members from the previous group over to our house, we fed them, and then we made a couple of important decisions as a group and that was the very first meeting of the Read more…
This Sunday, April 29th, is National Cohousing Open House Day! It’s a day when cohousing communities across the United States, including Gainesville Cohousing, open their doors and welcome people to learn more about their intentional neighborhood. Visitors will experience the sights and sounds of what a cohousing community is really like by talking with neighbors and walking the grounds. The day not only invites the neighbors of local communities to share and become an extended Read more…
Gainesville Cohousing is 6 years old! This last year has proved to be our biggest year yet and we are rapidly growing every single day! In January, we broke ground and the infrastructure process was started. Our property looked like a very exciting moonscape as EarthWorx did all the important below and above ground work, getting us ready for the building process. They went above and beyond helping us achieve our vision, even saving wood Read more…
We are so thrilled to announce that we have officially begun work on our property! Earthworx, LLC started the work on our property shortly after the city of Gainesville gave us the final approval. On Saturday, January 21st, the community gathered on the property to unveil our Gainesville Cohousing construction sign. Our official ground breaking ceremony will be on Friday, February 3rd at 1:30pm. The Mayor of Gainesville, Lauren Poe, will be an honored guest and Read more…
Recently, we had our 5th Anniversary together as a community! It is hard to believe that 5 years has gone by since our very first meeting with only a handful of people ready to start this journey together. Since that initial conversation about building the first cohousing community in Florida we have welcomed many more people, made a ton of decisions, invested our heart and souls, and worked our fingers to the bone! We have Read more…
We are so close to breaking ground, we can taste it! Our members are selling their current homes, having garage sales, donating extra things, and talking to the banks. With breaking ground only weeks away many people are downsizing, perfecting their floorplans, and pinning their “must-haves” on Pinterest! Since our last Community Steps blog, many exciting things have happened for our neighborhood thanks to the very hard work of our Building committee chaired by member, Read more…
GOT QUESTIONS? If you have been interested in cohousing and want to learn more or maybe you have some specific questions about our project, now is your chance! Come on out to UCG (United Church of Gainesville) on Sunday, April 26th at 4:30pm for an hour long Informational Session. You’ll be able to meet some of our members and learn about how far along we are in the process of creating a sustainable and family-friendly Read more…