LC Henley Station
Belgard® Pavers Enhance Active Lifestyle Community in Tennessee’s Largest Permeable Interlocking Concrete Pavement Project
Every Project Starts with a Purpose
In recent years, Lifestyle Communities has constructed various condominium, apartment and housing developments in Tennessee, Kentucky and Ohio. The company targets young, active tenants with features such as pools, fitness centers, sand volleyball courts, hip bars and restaurants that showcase live music, and a consistent line up of community events and activities. Completed in 2016, LC Henley Station is another in the line of successful Lifestyle Communities townhome projects located in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, just southeast of Nashville.
Murfreesboro and central Tennessee’s terrain is extremely flat and features a predominantly solid rock subsurface. Due to LC Henley Station’s large footprint of 14 acres, utilizing traditional stormwater design would not only pose a significant challenge, but also involve a tremendous amount of rock blasting.
The Solution
Solving for Style, Function, and Durability
The company partnered with Belgard® Commercial to employ low impact development (LID) practices, utilizing a 365,000-square-foot permeable pavement system for all vehicular surfaces to manage stormwater runoff. The use of permeable interlocking concrete pavement (PICP) allowed for a flat finish grade with minimal subsurface slope while effectively handling stormwater, resulting in significant cost savings for Lifestyle Communities.
Landscape architect RaganSmith Associates selected Belgard Aqua-Bric® permeable pavers for LC Henley Station. The pavers’ clean, modular form adapts easily to a wide range of design options while complementing the aesthetics of the development. In addition to their visual appeal, the pavers provide the strength, durability and stormwater management performance required for a large-scale mixed-use site.
While Lifestyle Communities welcomed the cost savings, Murfreesboro utility providers, including phone, cable and electric companies, raised concerns about potential stormwater impacts on underground infrastructure. To address this, the county constructed a four-foot trench along roads with utilities and capped it with nonpermeable clay to protect cables and wiring from stormwater infiltration.
In contrast, the City of Murfreesboro expressed confidence in the use of permeable pavers. “We have about 250,000 square feet of paver projects on the municipal side, so we’ve been very supportive of developers using pavers on the private side,” said Sam Huddleston, Murfreesboro Assistant Engineer.
Huddleston noted that cost savings were realized on multiple levels. Due to the site’s premium location, land costs were high and the developer needed to meet parking and access standards. The use of permeable pavers helped reduce the overall land footprint while maximizing development density. In addition, Murfreesboro assesses a stormwater utility fee based on impervious surface area, and PICP systems are excluded from that calculation. “By implementing permeable pavers, the development reduced its monthly stormwater management utility fee by more than 75 percent compared to a traditional system, which is quite a savings,” Huddleston explained.
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The Result
A Lasting Impression:
The Final Transformation
Both Lifestyle Communities and City of Murfreesboro were very pleased with the final project. As of 2017, LC Henley Station is one of the largest PICP projects in the nation and the largest in Tennessee. Phase II of the project is on tap for the near future and will feature an additional 175,000 square feet of pavers.
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