sports complex featuring indoor rock climbing, pickleball, basketball courts, and event space. “A lot of these schools don’t have indoor gyms to practice volleyball or basketball,” Fetterhoff explains. “They don’t have basketball teams because they don’t have space to practice.”The facility will serve both tourists and locals, providing schools with desperately needed athletic facilities. CUSTOM HOMES, OFF-GRID LIVING JPK’s residential projects embrace customization and self-sufficiency, reflecting the islands’ infrastructure realities and buyers’ desires for personalized luxury. “Our goal is to hopefully find a buyer that can enter into a construction contract that would allow them to make certain changes,” Fetterhoff explains.“How large they want their closets, what their bathrooms look like, what colors, what tile, what fixtures, whether they want to add a garage or a gym or an apartment.” Currently, JPK has a $4.5 million home 75% complete. “We’re right at that point where we want to find a buyer, otherwise we’re going to start painting it the colors we want and putting the tile that we want.” Self-sustainability defines every JPK home, driven by necessity rather than environmental idealism alone.“All of our water is collected in giant eight- to 10-foot-tall concrete rooms underneath our homes that collect water from our roof,” Fetterhoff details. “That’s the only way that we get water here. We don’t hook up to water lines or sewer lines.” Solar panels with battery backup and generators provide power independence, while septic systems handle waste management. Recent visits to the International Builders Show in Las Vegas introduced new technologies that could enhance these off-grid capabilities.“There’s so much unique technology and there were so many different products that we have never seen, heard of, or even thought existed,” Fetterhoff says. The company explores innovations in composites, stronger steels, and sustainable materials, even considering 3D-printed homes already tested in Trinidad and 21 BUSINESS VIEW CARIBBEAN VOLUME 12, ISSUE 07 JPK DEVELOPMENTS
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