'World's First' 3D-Printed Homes Coming To Rancho Mirage

RANCHO MIRAGE, CA — Think your home is state-of-the-art? A new $15 million development project in the Coachella Valley might be a step above.

Beverly Hills-based Palari Group, a development company focused on sustainable building, and Oakland-based Mighty Buildings, a construction technology company, announced Wednesday they have started development in Rancho Mirage on "the world's first community of 3D-printed zero net energy homes."

Fifteen eco-friendly homes built utilizing the "3D-printed panelized Mighty Kit system" by Mighty Buildings are going up on a 5-acre parcel near Sunnylands, in the area of Ginger Rogers Road and Key Largo Avenue, according to a joint news release.

Each 1,450-square-foot home on a 10,000-square-foot lot will feature three bedrooms, two baths, a swimming pool and a deck. The presale price is $595,000. A few of the homes will feature an additional 700-square-foot building with two bedrooms and a bathroom. Those properties will go for $850,000 - $950,000.

The homes will offer a high-tech wellness system by New York-based Delos that improves indoor air quality while providing water filtration and circadian lighting.

Upgrade options will include pergola decking, cabanas, hot tubs, firepits and outdoor showers, as well as EV charging stations.

The project is expected to wrap up in about a year.

Palari announced it intends to build similar communities up and down California in the near future.

Palari founder and CEO Basil Starr said 3D printing "allows us to build faster, stronger and more efficiently, making it integral to our platform of streamlining home-building process centered on sustainability of construction, materials, and operations."

Mighty Buildings will provide the 3D-printed panels using a process that eliminates much of the waste associated with traditional homebuilding, according to Alexey Dubov, the company's co-founder and chief operating officer.

"This will be the first on-the-ground actualization of our vision for the future of housing — able to be deployed rapidly, affordably, sustainably, and able to augment surrounding communities with a positive dynamic," Dubov said.