Our Location

More about the location

The Great Oak site is approximately 6 acres of a 13-acre parcel of
former farmland on the western edge of Ann Arbor in Washtenaw County,
Michigan. This part of Ann Arbor is well served by expressways:
entrances to I-94 and M-14 are within two miles and offer easy travel to
the Detroit suburbs to the east and Jackson to the west, while US-23
gives access to Toledo to the south and Flint and Lansing to the north.
It's a short trip on surface streets to Ann Arbor and the surrounding
Washtenaw communities of Dexter, Chelsea, and Saline.

The site is located in Scio Township, a mainly rural area outside Ann
Arbor. It is within the Ann Arbor school district, however. Children
attend Lakewood Elementary, Slauson Middle School,
Community High School and Skyline High
School. Children also attend nearby public charter Honey Creek, and
local private schools. Great Oak has water and sewer connections to the
Ann Arbor system.

Great Oak is surrounded by many types of land use, with lots of open
space. Here is an aerial photograph of the site (from 1994, just before
both Sunward and Eagle Pointe began building):

To the south (bottom) you can see farmland and low-density
subdivision development. At the bottom right is the University of
Michigan's Saginaw Forest preserve. To the immediate east is the Eagle
Pointe apartment complex (not built yet in this photo) and, just to
the north of that, a light industrial and office complex. To the north
you can see the building site of our neighbors and friends at Sunward Cohousing,
Ann Arbor's first cohousing community; between Sunward and Great Oak
is a ravine containing a stream and two small ponds. Beyond Sunward to
the north, on the other side of some woods, is Park Road and the
Jackson Road commercial corridor. To the west, we border on the Ann
Arbor Swim Club, a private recreational association. To the south is
Touchstone
Cohousing (not built yet in this photo), which is the third and
newest Ann Arbor Cohousing community.

Since we reside in Michigan, we're exposed to a healthy dose of all 4
seasons.