If you have ever wondered how builders and developers take a piece of land and mold it into one ofthe communities that Peachtree City has become so well known for, now is your chance to see how it happens.

The property is actually two parcels of land along Ga. Highway 54, across from Publix, recently named Lexington Park. The builder is Bob Adams Homes who has planned a 74-home community on the land that was purchased from the Lallande and Scott families this past summer.

"We were very pleased when Mrs. Lallande approached us about this particular piece of land" says Colin Roetman, site development manager for Bob Adams Homes.

"We discovered that the property had many ofthe natural characteristics that we look for," said Roetman.

He and Adams' site development team, consisting of a professional landscape architect and several development specialists, studied the property and created the neighborhood concept that will soon become Lexington Park.

"In creating a neighborhood concept," says Roetman, "we consider the natural characteristics ofthe site and whether or not our product will work on that site. We also consider the demographics of our customers and the special requirements of Peachtree City."

The result is Bob Adams Homes had a winning combination with an added feature not always present on undeveloped tracts of land.

When studying the existing plant life on this property, registered landscape architect for Bob Adams Homes, Sandy Phillips, discovered a wealth of unique landscaping material planted by the original owners. This included dozens of trees, shrubs, vines and flowering plants.

"Lexington Park had a resource that we don't usually have," said Phillips, "mature landscape material growing in an open situation."

The development team found healthy, established plants and trees that could successfully be moved to a planned park location inside the neighborhood rather than cleared and replaced.

"As a landscape architect I was thrilled to find such beautiful, healthy plants and trees that were planted with the tender loving care ofthe owners," said Phillips. "As a member of a development team I was also thrilled that Bob Adams Homes was willing to relocate them though the cost was somewhat higher than clearing and replacing them. Though more expensive, the added value to the neighborhood of having these beautiful, mature plants and trees is immense," said Phillips. "It would have taken years for replacement plants to reach this level of maturity."

The Bob Adams Homes Development Team recently attended a seminar sponsored by the National Arbor Day Foundation, which teaches practical ways to use existing trees when developing land. The result, with an arborist's help to insure the health of the transplants, over 100 trees, shrubs, vines and flowering plants have been relocated to different parts of the neighborhood, including a one-acre park area. Bob Adams Homes plans to add nursery trees and plants as well to enhance what's already these.

"Lexington Park is a real treasure," says Phillips, "we are so excited to be able to use these beautiful trees and shrubs and are certain the original owners of the land will be equally as pleased."