PIERCE COUNTY, Wash., Oct. 18, 2006 - Cascadia Development has selected John Harbottle III to design the first of the community's three 18-hole, championship golf courses. Harbottle, one of the most sought after golf course architects in the Western United States, has created some of the nation's top facilities, including the Olympic Course at Gold Mountain, Bremerton, Wash., site of the 2006 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship. Other credits include "Golf Digest" Best New Course award winners: Genoa Lakes near South Lake Tahoe, Nev., Ridgecrest Golf Club, Nampa, Idaho, and Stevinson Ranch, Stevinson, Calif. Current Harbottle projects include Timilick Tahoe in Truckee, Calif., and Washington State University's Palouse Ridge Golf Club.

"We selected John not only as an award-winning architect but because he has a passion for creating golf courses that are beautiful and pleasurable for all golfers," said Patrick Kuo, Cascadia president and chief executive officer. "He builds golf courses like the old masters."

Of his role with Cascadia, Harbottle said, "We look forward to working with Patrick and his Cascadia Development team, and share their vision of creating one of the nation's finest golf course communities.

"The land at Cascadia is well suited for great golf course design. The terrain has an undulating contour, which will allow for tremendous variety within the course and views to Mount Rainier, yet its contour is also subtle enough to walk.

"The site will lend itself to a minimalist design approach," Harbottle continued. "We intend to create a course which fits the topography in a natural way, like the Donald Ross classic, Pinehurst No. 2." Pinehurst's Course No. 2, in North Carolina, was designed by the pre-eminent Scottish golf course architect and has been the site of more championships than any other U.S. course, including the 2005 U.S. Open.

The 18-hole Cascadia course will be located to the east of the community's entrance and include a first-class clubhouse and state-of-the-art golf teaching facility. The 219-acre golf complex also will include a resort hotel with complete conference facilities. Nearby residential homesites will offer golf-course views as well as access to natural buffer space. Cascadia is reserving 1,280 acres for parks and open space.

Harbottle is nationally recognized for his commitment to environmentally sensitive design and has received awards for preserving wetlands, sensitive habitats and scenic beauty as well as conserving wildlife. He is a member of the American Society of Golf Course Architects and serves on its environmental committee. His award-winning projects led "Golf World Magazine" to call him one of the nation's "artists most in demand and builders of courses you most want to play."

In addition to new courses, Harbottle has a distinguished reputation for restoration, including major renovations at the Los Angeles Country Club, Stanford University Golf Club, Big Canyon Country Club, Newport Beach, Calif., and Hirao Country Club, Nagoya, Japan.

About Cascadia:
Cascadia, 12 miles southeast of Tacoma and 18 miles from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, is a new 5,000-acre community in Pierce County. It will provide 6,500 home sites, a business and industrial park, a resort-quality hotel and conference center, up to three 18-hole golf courses, a town center with retail stores and restaurants, seven schools and some 1,280 acres of parks and open space. At the foothills of Mount Rainier and with views to Commencement Bay, Cascadia has been inspired by the world's greatest communities and is dedicated to offering a totally balanced living environment. Classified as an employment-based planned community, Cascadia will be Washington's largest planned community, creating an estimated 10,000 jobs over its 20-year build out. Development financing for Cascadia is provided by Seattle-based HomeStreet Bank.