ceriano could support the best recommendations by describing what cannot be seen in the provided images: what are conditions below ground?
Some mention was made on another post, but I gather not everyone here has already visited there. Speak to the soil quality, or - better - show us what an open hole looks like!
Is this the driven sand of a seaside resort? The 11 - 12' deep Maury silt loam of the famed central Kentucky Bluegrass thoroughbred horse farm region? Caliche, like in (I think) Texas or New Mexico? Perhaps it is anaerobic gray hydric soils from a wetland?
I suspect (since a Streetview image showed new construction next door) that whatever topsoil the original site came with is long gone. There is probably a poorer draining B horizon subsoil with fresh sod on top, which means that great plant selections might have to take a reality check back seat to very tolerant plant selections. This doesn't mean one can't grow anything, and it doesn't mean one can't go out on a limb (!) with some wishful gardening thinking.
It does mean one should have clear-eyed expectations, and know what the chances are that a Cornus florida will just grow with abandon - despite it being a perfectly at-home native species in this part of Virginia. Local plants are going to do fine in unadulterated local conditions, but severely disturbed/compacted/irretrievably altered conditions require a different approach.
I see that I've become even more pessimistic than my predecessors - without meaning to. I would consider this wide open site to be more akin to a new highway cut - a pioneer species landscape. Around here, that means Juniperus virginiana, Rhus glabra, and Robinia pseudoacacia. I think you will likely be able to do somewhat better than that, but knowing what you have to work with and thinking about species that actually want to grow in those conditions can often lead to satisfaction on the first try - and certainly a LOT less effort on your part.
**Liquidambar styraciflua clones
**Nyssa sylvatica (as mentioned, with many exceptional clones like 'Red Rage')
**Taxodium distichum/Taxodium ascendens/Metasequoia glyptostroboides
**Quercus michauxii, Quercus phellos, Quercus lyrata
**Magnolia virginiana and its many selections
**Betula nigra
