The new year is off to a busy start for Onsite Design + Development and its owner, Mike Hogstrom. Construction is scheduled to begin this week on homes in two of Hogstrom’s Goodwood area subdivisions, Township at Old Goodwood and Overton Walk. Both developments are 100% presold.
Nearby, infrastructure work is underway at Adelia at Old Goodwood, Hogstrom’s residential community that will be developed around the Old Goodwood Plantation home. Construction on homes in the development is slated to begin during the second quarter.
Meanwhile Onsite Design has no less than eight new developments in the planning phase, and Hogstrom believes three will come to fruition sometime in 2017.
“We’re getting a lot of attention now from people who own land,” Hogstrom says. “They want us to do something and they want the Onsite Design stamp on it.”
The projects have been a long time coming. Hogstrom first announced plans for Township at Old Goodwood and Overton Walk in the summer of 2015. The former will be a traditional residential design subdivision of eight single-family homes on a 1.7-acre tract at Lobdell and Lasalle avenues. The latter will have 17 lots on a 3.17-acre tract at Old Hammond Highway and Cove Court.
Infrastructure work on both developments was completed over the holidays, and home construction is scheduled to begin any day.
“The contractors can’t get going fast enough,” Hogstrom says.
At Adelia at Old Goodwood, which is being developed on the site of the 165-year-old historic home at 7307 Goodwood Blvd., some 75% of the lots are presold and construction crews are still doing ground work on the 17-acre site. Onsite Design is designing about 12 of the homes, and private architects are doing the rest. Hogstrom says demand for the houses is strong, and that lot sales area averaging $322,000.
As for his future projects, Hogstrom says they will be “versions” of the upscale, infill developments his firm has already done in Baton Rouge, but with their own characteristics.
“We’re going to do some different things—not too dissimilar in nature, but we’re going to keep reinventing Baton Rouge,” he says. “We’re going to put some new stuff out there.”
Hogstrom is also expanding into New Orleans and the Gulf Coast, though he says it’s too soon to discuss specific projects.
—Stephanie Riegel
