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Why East Brady?
East Brady has been pulling people to the river for generations. Long known as the "Playground of the Allegheny," this stretch of the river has been a summer getaway for boaters and campers for decades, with nine miles of deep, unlimited-horsepower water and some of the region's best fishing for walleye, muskie, catfish, and bass.
Just outside town, the Armstrong Trail follows the river for miles along a former rail corridor, connecting riders and walkers to the Brady Tunnel and the panoramic views at Brady's Bend Overlook. For those who want to go further, paddlers can kayak the 57 miles from East Brady all the way to Pittsburgh — or just enjoy the river from their own backyard.
It's a place people have chosen to slow down for a long time. Waterway Estates gives you a reason to stay.
Preston & Bria Saxton, Founders
Bria has spent more than 30 years on the Allegheny — a third-generation boater on this exact stretch of river, long before any of it had a name like Waterway Estates. This part of town was once known as "Bums Hollow," a name that traces back to the days when its quiet woods and old railroad beds served as a stopping point for travelers and transient rail workers passing through. It's a stretch of land with a working history as real as the river itself, and one Bria's family has known intimately for generations.
The husband and wife duo are real estate investors with a decade of experience between them. When the opportunity to purchase this land finally came, the decision wasn't really a question — it was personal. "We knew we had to share it with the community," Bria says. "We didn't want just one family to get to experience life on this river. We wanted to build something for an escape from the 9-to-5, a place to retire, a place to bring your kids for summers they'll actually remember."
That's also where the townhomes came from — designed with natural materials and colors meant to sit into the landscape rather than on top of it, never cookie-cutter.
The two of them split the work the way they split the river view: Preston manages the project on the ground — construction, site logistics, the day-to-day of turning land into homes — while Bria leads the marketing and design vision, shaping how Waterway Estates looks, feels, and tells its story. Different focuses, same goal: a riverfront community that feels like it was always meant to be there.
Vision
Waterway Estates is a riverfront community on the Allegheny, built around direct access to the water and the Armstrong Trail. Townhomes and custom single-family lots are being developed with one goal in mind: let more than one family experience what this stretch of river has meant to ours for generations.
Land History
Before it was Waterway Estates, this land was something quieter — wooded riverbank and old railroad grade, the kind of overlooked stretch that locals once called "Bums Hollow." For more than 50 years, it served as a tucked-away campground, known more to boaters and longtime locals than to anyone passing through on Route 68.
In 2011, the land began its transition into a development of individual lots. The people who bought in were a mix of locals, retirees, and city folks — all drawn by the same thing: a real getaway on the river. Many loved it so much that one lot wasn't enough. Owners bought a second lot, or partnered with a neighboring owner, just to have the room to build something bigger — a place to make memories with their family for generations, host friends and show them what river life is really about, retire in tranquility, and raise kids and grandkids the way it was meant to be lived.
Waterway Estates picks up that same thread. We've seen firsthand what people love most about life along the Allegheny, and our goal is simple: give people the real opportunity to live it — not just a lot with a view, but a place built around everything that view was always meant to hold.
Design Philosophy
Waterway Estates isn't being built from a template. Every townhome and home plan draws on natural materials and earth-toned palettes meant to sit into the landscape, not stand apart from it — wood tones, stone accents, and rooflines that work with the tree line instead of against it.
The same thinking shapes the lots themselves. Rather than maximize density, the development is laid out to preserve sightlines to the river and space between homes, so neighbors feel like neighbors and not just the next driveway over.