Landscape Construction at the Hilltop Housing Complex in Ellicott City

Our crews are spending more time out in Howard County recently as we begin work on hard and softscaping for Phase I of the Hilltop Housing complex and a new recreation center in Ellicott City, Maryland. The Hilltop site and the new recreation center will comprise the first phase of redevelopment for what will eventually be a larger, mixed income community.

The Howard County Housing Commission plans for the project call for Hilltop Housing on Mount Ida Drive and the neighboring Ellicott Terrace apartments to be replaced by a mix of 273 housing units, some at market-rate and others subsidized. Included will be a new, 45,000-square-foot public recreation center, which County Executive Ken Ulman describes as a “fabulous state-of-the-art recreation center that will uplift not just the immediate community but … the entire area.”

The result will be a new, and so far nameless, community that is to be completed in 2014. Phase I – Hilltop and the recreation center – will be completed first, in 2013.

E-Landscape’s scope includes landscape planting, specialty soil mixes, bioretention facilities, and the construction of segmental walls.

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