Travis Pointe
Custom houses around a 1977 Bill Newcomb course, on land that was Omega Farms until 1969 — in Lodi Township, with Saline schools
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About Travis Pointe
Travis Pointe is a community of custom-built houses on large wooded lots around the private Travis Pointe Country Club, between Ann Arbor and Saline. The land was a working property called Omega Farms until 1969, when Connie and Cliff Simmons bought it. Construction began in June 1976, the club was founded in 1977, and building has continued in phases ever since.
The jurisdictional picture is worth establishing before anything else, because three different names attach to the same houses. The municipality is Lodi Township, which sets the tax rate and supplies services. The mailing address is Ann Arbor. The school assignment is Saline Area Schools. None of the three can be inferred from the others, and a buyer working from the mailing address alone will get both the tax and the school picture wrong.
- —Built on farmland called Omega Farms, purchased in 1969
- —A 1977 course by Michigan architect Bill Newcomb, who also worked at Barton Hills
- —Nearly fifty years of custom construction, so no two streets repeat
- —Lodi Township taxes, Ann Arbor mail, Saline schools — three different answers
- —Club membership is separate from home ownership
From Omega Farms
The property was farmland under the name Omega Farms until Connie and Cliff Simmons purchased it in 1969. Seven years passed before anything was built: construction began in June 1976, and the country club was founded in 1977.
The golf course dates from that founding year. It is a par-72 layout with six sets of tees, measuring 7,326 yards from the back tees, and it was built in 1977 by the Michigan golf architect Bill Newcomb — who had worked on the course at Barton Hills Country Club a few years earlier, in 1972.
Houses followed the club rather than the other way around, and they have kept coming. Construction spans from the late 1970s to the present, which means this is not a single-era community; it contains nearly fifty years of building, including detached condominiums and the newer Gardens of Travis Pointe section.
The homes
The housing is custom-built and varied by design: single-story ranches, Tudors, traditional and contemporary houses, on generous and often wooded lots, many bordering the course or overlooking ponds and fairways. Detached condominiums and the Gardens of Travis Pointe add attached and lower-maintenance options with their own arrangements.
Custom construction across five decades means two things a buyer should hold onto. First, quality is not uniform — different builders, different budgets, and different levels of owner involvement produced a genuine range, so a thorough inspection matters more here than in a single-builder subdivision. Second, build year drives the systems picture entirely: a 1979 house and a 2015 house are at opposite ends of the replacement cycle.
Lot relationship to the course is a real and unevenly distributed value component. Fairway frontage, a pond view, and an interior lot are three different products. It is worth walking rather than reading off a plat map.
Lodi Township, Ann Arbor mail, Saline schools
Take the three separately. Lodi Township is the municipality: it sets the property tax rate and provides services, permitting, and inspections, and township rates run below city rates. The Ann Arbor mailing address is a Postal Service routing decision and carries no governmental meaning whatever. And Saline Area Schools is a district boundary drawn independently of both — the district serves the City of Saline plus Pittsfield Charter Township and portions of Bridgewater, Freedom, Lodi, Saline, and York townships.
This combination is common enough in western Washtenaw County to be a pattern rather than an oddity, but it still catches buyers. The listing will name all three — mailing city, municipality, and county are standard fields. What the listing will not do is tell you they diverge, or which one drives what. Lodi Township sets the tax rate; the Ann Arbor address drives nothing at all; and the Saline assignment is the one that most often decides the purchase.
It also governs comparable sales. The best comparables are inside Travis Pointe; after that, other Lodi Township properties with Saline school assignment. A City of Saline house or a City of Ann Arbor house carries a different tax bill and, in the Ann Arbor case, a different district entirely.
The club
Travis Pointe Country Club is the community's recreational center, with the golf course alongside tennis, swimming, and dining. Founded in 1977, it marked its fortieth anniversary a few years ago.
Membership is separate from home ownership. Living in Travis Pointe does not by itself confer club access, and anyone for whom the club is part of the reason to be here should confirm what membership requires, what it costs, and whether it is currently available — before an offer rather than after. This is the single most common assumption buyers make about golf-course communities and the one most likely to disappoint.
Saline and Ann Arbor from here
Travis Pointe sits between two centers and belongs administratively to neither. Downtown Saline is a short drive south — a working Michigan Avenue, which here is the old Chicago Road, chosen as a town site in 1824 by the surveyor Orange Risdon and platted by him in 1829. Summerfest, Oktoberfest, and a weekly farmers market run there through the year, and Rentschler Farm Museum preserves eleven outbuildings on the National Register at the east edge of town.
Ann Arbor is roughly fifteen minutes north, with the University of Michigan, Michigan Medicine, and a downtown of its own. Very few communities in the county sit this squarely between two distinct town centers while paying township taxes to a third jurisdiction.
It also means the neighborhood competes in two directions. Some buyers weigh Travis Pointe against Saline addresses and some against Ann Arbor ones, and those comparisons carry different price expectations and different tax assumptions. Knowing which buyer a particular house is likely to attract is most of the work of positioning it.
Schools
Travis Pointe is served by Saline Area Schools despite its Lodi Township location and Ann Arbor mailing address. That assignment rests on district boundaries rather than municipal or postal ones.
Getting around
The community sits between Ann Arbor and Saline in Lodi Township. Downtown Saline is a short drive south and downtown Ann Arbor roughly fifteen minutes north, with the University campuses and Michigan Medicine beyond that. US-12 and US-23 handle regional travel, and Detroit Metro Airport is about half an hour east.
Buying or selling in Travis Pointe
Read the three jurisdictions off the listing and hold them apart in your head, then price on build year, lot, and condition. A community with fifty years of custom construction does not reduce to a price per square foot, and a comparable sale that matches on size but not on year or lot character will mislead.
For buyers, budget for a careful inspection and find out who built the house and when. Walk the lot. Read the association documents that apply to the specific section — the detached condominiums and the Gardens have arrangements the single-family houses do not. And separate the club question from the housing question entirely.
For sellers, the case is the combination rather than any one element: custom houses on wooded lots around a Bill Newcomb course, at township tax rates, with Saline school assignment, fifteen minutes from Ann Arbor. Buyers who want that are choosing it deliberately over city addresses. State the township and the district plainly instead of letting the Ann Arbor mailing address do ambiguous work, name the builder and the year, and document what the house has had done.
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