Completed Harbour Village community viewed from above in Carlisle

Documented August 2023–July 2025

Carlisle, Pennsylvania

From five open acres to forty new homes.

Follow Harbour Village from heavy site work to a completed affordable community built around connection, stability, and place.

Explore the construction story
Community
40 affordable homes
Built form
Six residential buildings
Visual record
Five documented stages

The project

Housing shaped around connection.

Harbour Village brings apartments, townhomes, shared outdoor space, and a community building together on South Spring Garden Street. The visual record makes the project’s full scale legible—from earthwork and utilities to framing, enclosure, landscape, and daily life.

Development by Safe Harbour · Construction by JEM Group · Architecture by UpStreet Architects

Construction milestones

A community assembled in clear stages.

Aug 2023Site work
Jan 2024Buildings rise
Feb 25, 2024Community takes shape
Mar 14, 2025Exterior complete
Jul 2, 2025Finished community

August 2023

The ground is opened and the plan becomes visible.

Early earthwork establishes the development’s footprint, road network, and building pads. Wide aerials connect field operations to the larger five-acre site and create the baseline for every chapter that follows.

Purpose
Site-work baseline
Coverage
Footprint + context
Harbour Village site work underway in August 2023
Site development · August 2023
Active earthwork viewed from the new access road at Harbour Village
Active work fronts face the new access road.
Excavation equipment moving across the Harbour Village building pads
Equipment shifts across the future building pads.
Top-down view of early site work at Harbour Village
The future community footprint, before vertical construction.

January 2024

Vertical construction spreads across the site.

Framing, roof trusses, and sheathing establish the development’s mix of apartment buildings and townhomes. Aerial coverage records both individual building progress and the coordination required across a multi-building site.

Sequence
Framing + dry-in
Reading the site
Buildings + circulation
Harbour Village buildings under construction in January 2024
Buildings rise across the development · January 2024
Apartment building framing at Harbour Village
Enclosure advances building by building.
Ground-level view of a long residential building under construction at Harbour Village
Ground-level view of framing + dry-in.
Harbour Village internal street during construction
The internal street begins to read as a neighborhood.

February 25, 2024

One development, several building types.

Repeated flights reveal how six residential buildings, the community building, parking, paths, and open space resolve into one coordinated plan. The community’s scale is clearest from above.

Harbour Village community taking shape in February 2024
Community scale · February 25, 2024

The transformation

The same site, nearly two years apart.

The early earthwork view and the July 2025 flight make the full shift unmistakable—from an active construction field to a connected group of finished homes.

Harbour Village site during early work in August 2023
August 2023 · Site work
Completed Harbour Village community in July 2025
July 2, 2025 · Community complete

July 2, 2025 · Finished community

Architecture gives way to everyday place.

The final visit moves between the full development and the details people experience on foot: front porches, stone entries, planted walks, the playground, pavilion, and shared green space. Construction is complete; the community is now the story.

Completed entrance to Harbour Village
Completed streetscape · July 2, 2025
Completed Harbour Village townhomes with stone and gray-blue siding
Townhome architecture
Harbour Village community pavilion
Shared pavilion
Completed Harbour Village apartment building and entrance sign
Completed apartment building + entrance

Final project film

Harbour Village, complete.

A concise aerial and ground-level tour of the finished community, presented at full HD web quality.

Sunlit Harbour Village within the Carlisle landscape

Community context

A new neighborhood tied into Carlisle.

Wide flights place Harbour Village beside existing roads, services, recreation, and the surrounding landscape. The final aerials document not only what was built, but how the new community belongs to its setting.

The documented arc

Progress made legible across five site visits.

Purpose
Affordable family housing
40 residences
Built form
Apartments + townhomes
Six residential buildings
Method
Aerial + ground documentation
August 2023–July 2025

Project team

Development
Safe Harbour
General contractor
JEM Group, LLC
Architecture
UpStreet Architects
Photography + film
Visual Destinations