Village Grove is a Forestar community on Old Bramlett Road in Greenville, South Carolina. It is the most involved Mitchell Metals has been in a single community’s amenity package, and it is the clearest example of what the system can do when a developer specifies all of it at once.

Three structures went in: shade covers beside the pickleball courts, a gable picnic pavilion between the pool and the playground, and an 18-box back-to-back mail kiosk cover. Same Bronze finish, same 6×6 extruded aluminum, same roof detail on all three.

Why specifying them together matters

A community that buys its mail cover from one vendor, its pavilion from a second and its court shade from a third ends up with three structures that do not match. Different bronzes, different post profiles, different rooflines — sitting within a few hundred feet of each other where every resident and every prospective buyer sees all three at once.

Specified together, they read as one piece of neighbourhood architecture. That is the whole argument for handling an amenity package as a package, and Village Grove is the project that demonstrates it.

The pickleball shade is the unusual one

Court-side shade is a different problem from a mail cover. It has to shelter people watching and waiting without casting shadow across the playing surface, and it has to sit close to the fence line without crowding the run-off area behind the baseline. A long, shallow flat cover on 6×6 posts does that — depth enough for a bench and a bag, footprint small enough to stay out of the game.

Everything here is extruded aluminum, so nothing rusts beside a pool or a court. All three structures are engineered to ASCE 7-16 wind and snow loads and designed to meet ADA and IBC requirements, with the mail center laid out to the USPS Builders/Developers Guide.