Parade of Homes Spring Festival starts Friday in Oklahoma City area
by Richard Mize
EDMOND — The Parade of Homes Spring Festival, delayed for a month because of the coronavirus, kicks off Friday.
Nearly 100 new houses will be open free to the public from 1 to 7 p.m. daily through Sunday, and again June 5-7. Parade books are at OnCue locations. Details and maps to the houses are at https://www.paradeofhomesok.com/.
New houses will be open across the Oklahoma City area, from Edmond to Norman and from Yukon to Choctaw, but the featured community is in Edmond:
Cross Timbers, which has three neighborhoods — the Ridge, the Lakes, and Creekside — on the south side of Covell Road between Sooner Road and Coltrane Road. Parade builders in Cross Timbers are Authentic Custom Homes, Shawn Forth Custom Homes, Alder Fine Homes, Ripple Creek Custom Homes, and Bill Roberts Custom Homes.
Corporate sponsors are Oklahoma Natural Gas Co. and Wilshire Cabinet + Co.
Other sponsors are SWM & Sons Homes, Choctaw; Brookfield Custom Homes, Norman; McCaleb Homes, Edmond; Landmark Fine Homes, Norman; Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co.; OnCue; and Cross Timbers.
Builders are glad to be a part of the reopening of business, said Rusty Appleton, executive director of the Central Oklahoma Home Builders Association, the organizer.
"Since construction was deemed essential, our industry was working away while most folks were stuck at home. As we have moved toward summer, many builders are reporting increases in showing traffic and sales, which is an excellent sign. But, no one knows if that will hold out into the third and fourth quarters of 2020," Appleton said.
People touring the parade homes should be ready for restrictions related to the coronavirus, he said.
"Builders have been given guidance on sanitation and maximum crowd size based upon information provided by the Oklahoma Department of Commerce," Appleton said. "It looks like we will be moving into Phase 3 of the governor's plan during the parade, so restrictions may lessen as we go. Masks are not required, but are encouraged. Having said that, some builders may have more stringent requirements than others, so the public should be prepared to meet those requirements."
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