About Wilsonville's Villebois

The Wilsonville Farmers' Market is on Sundays May 23rd through October 3rd from 10am to 2pm in Villebois. It is located at the Villebois Village Center, at the corners of Villebois Drive and Barber Street in Wilsonville, Oregon. It has been soggy lately but the weather looks like it should be great tomorrow.

The Milken Institute recently released its annual report of the nation's "best performing" cities and the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area (which includes Portland, Beaverton and Vancouver) ranked No. 37 and Salem, Oregon ranked 58 out of 200 large U.S. metropolitan areas.

The Milken report ranks cities on a variety of factors, including job and salary growth over a given time period as well as the strength of their high-tech industries. Last year, the Portland area ranked No. 28 and Salem ranked No. 66 on the list.

Wilsonville, Oregon, resides about halfway between the city of Portland and the city of Salem. Known as the gateway to both Oregon's rich, horticultural wine country and its urban area, Wilsonville is certainly a special city.

Located along the scenic Willamette River, Wilsonville is home to a number of high-tech companies, such as Mentor Graphics and Xerox, as well as acres of public parks and gardens, including Town Center Park - an attraction with activities for all ages.

Not only is Wilsonville a great place to work and play, it's a great place to learn, too: the town is known for it's superior schools, libraries and earth-friendly initiatives, including a public transit system, a state-of-the-art water treatment facility and a comprehensive urban forestry plan.

Last but not least, the city is an exceptional place to live as well. Home to the award-winning Villebois neighborhood, residents living in Wilsonville love their city.

For more information about the city of Wilsonville or the Villebois community, please call 866.580.2836 or email Blog@CostaPacific.com. You may also visit ChangeHowYouLive.com.

From retirees and grandparents to young couples and families, the Villebois Village Center in Wilsonville, Oregon, is perfect for people of all ages and lifestyles to live, work, play and learn.

At the heart of the neighborhood will be a bustling mix of row homes, loft-style condominiums, shops, restaurants and sidewalk cafés that will embody the character of a European village. The community is far more than a place to live. It is a place that can actually change how you live.

For more information about the Villebois community, please call 866.580.2836 or email Blog@CostaPacific.com. You may also visit ChangeHowYouLive.com to learn more about this exceptional new neighborhood.

When it comes to developing and building complete communities with all of the amenities and luxuries its residents need, nobody does it better than master planner Costa Pacific Communities.

Costa Pacific's newest neighborhood in the Portland metropolitan area, the Villebois Village Center, in Wilsonville, Oregon, will offer residents access to shops and restaurants, cafes and spas. These extra perks of a master-planned community truly make it seem like a bustling European village.

The newest amenity area residents are abuzz about at Villebois is the Villebois Sunday Market. The new farmers market operates every Sunday from May through October and offers a variety of produce and other Northwest-grown goods for neighbors to sample and purchase.

For more information about the Villebois Sunday Market - including a list of vendors and driving directions to the farmers market - you can visit VilleboisSundayMarket.com.

To learn more details about the amazing Villebois Village Center in Wilsonville, Oregon, visit ChangeHowYouLive.com or call 866.580.2836.       

Kinetic Knowledge, an online technology provider that helps companies create communities through blogging, recently interviewed Andy Green, sales and marketing manager with Costa Pacific Homes, about the success he has seen through the use of this blog. Costa Pacific has included blogging and social networking at the forefront of its marketing efforts to promote its newest community, the Villebois Village Center in Wilsonville, Oregon.

Click here to read the interview or read it here:

Frerecks: "Hi Andy. Could you sum up for folks the synergies between what you're trying to accomplish on and off line at Cost Pacific Communities?"

Green: "Sure. As a developer, our story takes us back to the days when neighborhoods were villages, not just developments built on top of each other. As a marketer, we want to blog as much Costa Pacific community information and news as possible. By touting features in our village neighborhoods, we're creating a better sense of community for both residents and prospective buyers."

Frerecks: "Is there anything in particular going on right now?"

Green: "Yes, the Villebois community in Wilsonville, Oregon, is already up and running. The vision for it has become even more than we ever imagined. It's a thriving community model that can all but remove the automobile from the equation. As a transit-oriented development, our community is adjacent to the WES, Westside Express Service, commuter train. You could also get on a bike and ride to your grocery store or you can walk to church. Construction will also begin next year on a public primary school. You can quite literally live, work, play and learn in the Villebois community."

Frerecks: "How does your blogging differentiate you as a developer and support Villebois and the Costa Pacific vision of community?

Green: "With Villebois we have designed a community that is not only sustainable from a building practice standpoint, but it is also a socially sustainable community where neighbors get to know neighbors, and tend to plan social activities on a regular basis. Our goal is to keep the lines of communication open between Costa Pacific and the residents in our community. We have found that this has been achieved exactly as we had planned through our blog."

Frerecks: "Have your blogging efforts created better visibility for Villebois online?"

Green: "Absolutely. Not only has our blog been well received by the members in our community, but it has also increased our presence in the major search engines. Traffic has seen a month over month spike in page views, unique new visitors and, obviously, return visitors."

Frerecks: "Andy, On behalf of the Real Estate Blogsites' audience, thanks for sharing great news and great ideas."

Visit GetConnectedVillebois.com to learn more about Costa Pacific's expansive network of online social media and other websites that showcase the extraordinary Villebois neighborhood. Or contact Andy Green, Sales and Marketing Manager with Costa Pacific, at 866.580.2836 or info@CostaPacific.com, to learn more about the Villebois Village Center.