Cedar Hills development adds outdoor sauna, cold plunge to luxury amenities
Cedar Hills’ new mixed-use buildout pairs 369 apartments with an outdoor sauna and cold plunge, turning recovery into a standard luxury-rental perk.
The cold plunge at Cedar Hills was not being sold as a one-off wellness novelty. It was being folded into a full residential package, alongside an outdoor sauna, a spa, co-working rooms, a speakeasy, and a sports bar, in a project meant to replace most of the old Cedar Hills Shopping Center.
Construction got underway on the mixed-use development on May 4, 2026, with the site still in early construction and abatement phases. The plan calls for 369 apartments spread across three four- and five-story buildings, about 5,000 square feet of retail, surface parking, bike lanes, and first move-ins in late summer or fall of 2027.
For the ice bath crowd, the most telling detail is not just that a cold plunge is included, but where it sits in the amenity stack. The complex will have an indoor-outdoor fitness area with a full spa that features the plunge and sauna, putting cold immersion into the same category as the gym floor, the steam room and the recovery lounge. In other words, it is being treated less like a specialty destination and more like a baseline feature of premium housing.
The rest of the package makes the developer’s target clear. The project also includes a residents-only speakeasy and sports bar, a community greenhouse, conference rooms and a designated area for children. That mix suggests an audience of renters who want wellness, social space, remote-work infrastructure and family-friendly touches without leaving the property. Cold plunges are not usually sold this way in the stand-alone studio world, where they are often framed as intense recovery tools or part of a dedicated ritual. Here, they are part of a lifestyle pitch.
Developer Damin Tarlow said the project has to balance resident needs, neighborhood expectations and the challenge of finding long-term commercial tenants. That balancing act matters because it shows how amenity-driven housing is changing the feel of a neighborhood before the apartments even open. The wellness piece is not an afterthought; it is part of the identity the project is trying to build from day one.
Cedar Hills now joins the growing list of developments treating sauna access and cold immersion as residential infrastructure. For renters deciding where premium living starts, that is a meaningful shift, and it pushes the cold plunge further from the gym circuit and deeper into everyday life.
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