Kaplan Acquisitions LLC of Houston is completing site work on a 13-acre tract to develop the 350-unit District @ Greenville Apartments at 11911 Greenville Ave. To the south, Dallas-based Prescott Realty Group is readying its 3.5-acre tract at the corner of Greenville and Yale Boulevard, where it will build a trio of connected five-story buildings with 412 units on four upper floors and 18,000 sf of street-level retail. Mark Humphreys of Dallas-based Humphreys & Partners Architects LP tells GlobeSt.com that the proprietary e-Urban design will result in Kaplan's project being 86% more efficient than a traditional multifamily development would have been on the infill site while Prescott's mixed-use will be about 85%.

Kaplan's District @ Greenville will have five residential buildings and one clubhouse, all surface parking. The mix is 45% one-bedroom units and the balance as two bedrooms, with 1,000 sf as the average of the floor plans. Delivery is planned for fall 2009.

Prescott's e-Urban

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Since the father of the "Big House" design rolled out the e-Urban to the marketplace, roughly 50 projects have been started in the US, according to Humphreys, who is awaiting delivery of the first born. The high-efficiency building design replaces long corridors with shorter ones and places elevators or interior steps at all four corners for access to all levels.