After many years of legal zigs and zags the first phase of the Oakpointe Communities master planned development in Black Diamond is under construction.

Oakpointe, formally YarrowBay, had a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday at the site, 23201 Roberts Drive.

CEO Brian Ross said the project, which was known as The Villages, has been renamed Ten Trails because it better reflects the development. The entire project when complete calls for 4,800 homes with parks, schools, retail and trails. Phase one is designed for about 320 homes. In January Oakpointe projected the first residents would move into the homes in about two years.

“We are well into construction,” Ross said Tuesday at the ceremony. “We are in the midst of building a really great place.”

Goodfellow Bros. from Maple Valley has been building roads on the site and completing the infrastructure.

In December Ross announced Oakpointe gained a financial partner, the Chicago based Crown Community Development. It is the first venture into land development in the Pacific Northwest for Crown.

During the ceremony Ross said Oakpointe gave $1,000 each to the Enumclaw Schools Foundation, the PTA, the Black Diamond Community Center and $2,000 to the Black Diamond/Maple Valley Kiwanis Club backpack program.

The other YarrowBay master planned development in Black Diamond is Lawson Hills, which includes about 1,250 residence and is located east of the Ten Trails site.