Sustainable Design Practices
Milestone Ventures assists clients in making design choices to effectively utilize their available project budget to maximize energy efficiency and sustainable design practices. We stay abreast of changing technology and construction techniques to ensure our clients end up with the best possible product.
Milestone Ventures has developed projects with sustainable environmental site design features including saved trees, native landscapes, rain gardens, and pervious pavement. Other green features have included solar power, hybrid water heating systems, high efficiency insulation and construction techniques, high efficiency lighting, heating, and cooling, and more.
Green Building Certifications
Milestone Ventures is a leader in developing affordable rental housing that achieves green building certifications. Our developments have received LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), NGBS (National Green Building Standard), and Energy Star certifications.
In 2009, we broke new ground serving as the Development Consultant for Country Trace, the first-ever new construction LEED for Homes Certified apartment building in Indiana.
We were also the Development Consultant for Crawford Apartments, which was Indiana’s first LEED Platinum Certified affordable multi-family housing community. Crawford Apartments was the 2013 winner of the Indiana Green Building Council’s Green Building Award for the State of Indiana.
Development | Certifications | Year Completed |
Country Trace Apartments, Palmyra | LEED Certified | 2009 |
Plum Tree Gardens, Noblesville | LEED Gold | 2009 |
Spicewood Garden Apts., Sheridan | LEED Silver | 2009 |
Hawthorn Glen Supported Living I, Charlestown | Energy Star | 2010 |
Providence Place V, West Terre Haute | Energy Star | 2010 |
Covered Bridge Apartments, Washington | Energy Star | 2011 |
Ivy Lane Apartments, Vincennes | Energy Star | 2011 |
Liberty Place & Single-Family Rentals, Linton | LEED Silver | 2011 |
Millstone Pointe, Greencastle | Energy Star | 2011 |
Newbury Pointe II, Edinburgh | Energy Star | 2011 |
Spicewood Garden Apts. II, Sheridan | LEED Gold | 2012 |
Crawford Apartments, Bloomington | LEED Platinum | 2013 |
Prince Street Cottages, Princeton | LEED Silver | 2014 |
Warren Village, Terre Haute | LEED Silver | 2014 |
Main Street Cottages, Princeton | LEED Gold | 2015 |
Miller Asbury Apartments, Greencastle | LEED Gold | 2015 |
Stonecutters Place, Bedford | LEED Gold | 2015 |
Benet Hall Apartments, Ferdinand | LEED Gold | 2016 |
Crawford Apartments II, Bloomington | LEED Platinum | 2017 |
The Mercantile, Alexandria (New Construction Only) | LEED Certified | 2017 |
Aurora View, Valparaiso | LEED Gold, NGBS Gold | 2018 |
Campaign Quarters, Rushville | NGBS Gold | 2019 |
IndyEast Homes, Indianapolis | NGBS Gold | 2019 |
Warren Village II, Terre Haute | NGBS Silver | 2019 |
Blue – Mozingo, Indianapolis | NGBS Silver | 2020 |
Southern Knoll, Bloomington | NGBS Silver | 2020 |
The Union, Indianapolis | NGBS Bronze | 2020 |