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The single-family homes provide needed housing in Springfield at prices near the median home price for the city. Woodland Ridge is expected to include 350 houses when finished. It is now about halfway built out.
Lisa Foster and her husband moved into a newly built home in the Woodland Ridge community in Thurston two weeks ago. Coming from Southern California, they were looking for a more affordable home in a quiet neighborhood.
“Nothing could compare to what the value for the money here was,” the 65-year-old retiree told Lookout Eugene-Springfield.
Foster said they bought the three-bed, two-bath, single-story house on Holly Street for $479,000. The beautiful views are a plus, she said. The neighborhood in southeast Springfield overlooks rolling hills of the Willamette Valley.
“This same home would probably be a million dollars” in California, she said.
Hayden Homes, a Redmond-based development company, acquired the property in 2020 and began construction in 2021. It has built nearly 170 houses so far, and about 150 of those have sold. The development is nearing its halfway mark and is adding needed housing stock in the city.
Hayden Homes marketing director Katie McGowan told Lookout Eugene-Springfield the company has another 180 homesites still to be built on in the neighborhood, which extends from Squirrel Street to Holly Street and South 49th Place to South 53rd Place.
On Wednesday, Aug. 13, construction workers paved new sidewalks on Cedar View Drive in front of homes in various stages of development. Many of the houses had red and white “Sold” signs in their windows. Nearby, a dump truck dropped dirt on lots awaiting construction and a compactor leveled the soil.
Selling prices for the homes range from $395,000 to $545,000. The houses are one to two stories, with three to five bedrooms and two to four bathrooms. They all have a two-car garage. Homebuyers can pick from already built homes, or they can choose a floor plan for a home to be constructed on an empty lot.
According to Zillow, the current median sale price for a home in Springfield is $431,000.
McGowan said Hayden Homes provides “new homes to price-conscious, value-driven homebuyers in underserved, secondary markets” throughout the Pacific Northwest. She said Woodland Ridge has been attracting a range of buyers, from people purchasing their first house to those “drawn to the peaceful setting and easy-to-maintain homes.”
The development adds needed housing in Springfield. According to a city housing snapshot updated in spring 2025, housing is hard to find in the city due to a low vacancy rate, which was 0.4%. A 2% rate is considered “healthy.”
Also, Springfield’s housing inventory is aging, with only 4.2% of housing in Springfield being built since 2010, according to the city. Fewer homes were built in the last decade than in any decade since 1940.
The city issued building permits for 1,756 housing units during the last five years (about 350 per year). Springfield needs 470 new housing units every year for the next eight years to meet state housing production targets, according to a 2024 Oregon Housing Needs Analysis.
Of the 3,760 units that need to be built over the next eight years there needs to be:
- 37% for households earning the least income (0-30% of the area median income)
- 21% for families earning 31-60% of the area median income
- 23% for households earning 61-120% of the area median income
- 19% for families earning greater than 120% of the area median income
Other recent large-scale developments in the city include Marcola Meadows, a large neighborhood of single-family homes built by D.R. Horton in north Springfield, and Alma Apartments, an affordable housing complex being built by Cornerstone Community Housing.