Just 60 miles from Chicago, Avanterra is a community of 23 oversized homesites, offering elbow room from your neighbors, yet providing a sense of community and belonging in a private gated community setting. Whether you are looking to design and envision a newly built lifelong home with all of the spaces and technology necessary in this rapidly changing work/live environment, or you are looking to find an easy to reach second home retreat, Avanterra is the place for you.

The prominent features of the 100 acre property is its 60 acres of shared conservation land, comprising miles of private walking paths through rolling hills of mature hardwood forests and wild flower prairies, and a stocked fishing pond. At Avanterra’s core sits an oversized community center, Oasis, featuring a central pool with a 45’ lap lane and lounging sun-shelf, a communal BBQ area, a barn style community building great for birthday parties or impromptu glasses of wine with neighbors. Unique to Avanterra is the historic log cabin that was preserved and relocated near the pond, serving as a part-time nature education center and more remote gathering place for community members. Ample land surrounding this log cabin can be enjoyed by yoga and fitness enthusiasts, artists, and a quaint setting that residents can enjoy to their liking.

A Master Plan with 23 oversized lots, the Avanterra community offers one of the few shovel ready private community opportunities to envision, plan and construct a family home, among a community to like-minded neighbors, and in a way that suits the rapidly changing work and lifestyle challenges and opportunities presented as a result of COVID-19.

Created for the family or retreater who embraces the opportunities of the evolving home designs and desire for open space, while not losing one’s sense of community, Avanterra offers the following experiences all in one:

• Life in a remote and beautiful setting and close to Michigan's Harbor Country amenities and laid back lifestyle, but away from the disquietude created by weekend tourists

• Solitude and vistas of a 10+ acre parcel, but merely requiring the actual maintenance of a city plot

• Exclusiveness of a peaceful gated estate and the comfort of a small neighborhood, with 23 socially distant homesites on over 100 acres, paved streets safe enough for a bike ride, miles of walking trails to explore nature and a community activity center where residents can both entertain friends and/or socialize with fellow residents.