New development planned in West Ashley
Despite the downtown in the housing market, the Bees Ferry Road area on Charleston's northwestern edge continues to be a hot spot for new development.
A Virginia-based real estate company has laid out plans to develop a new community called Verdier Pointe, with up to 468 homes and 180,000 square feet of commercial space, on the west side of Bees Ferry Road adjacent to the Grand Oaks development.
"It creates a mixed-use kind of Main Street area off of Bees Ferry Road that would have commercial, and residential units above stores," said Charleston's Planning Division Director, Christopher Morgan. "It would have things like drug stores and restaurants."
The "commercial village district" in the plan would feature on-street parking and public plazas and squares. The development plan also calls for an apartment complex with up to 304 units, and up to 124 single-family homes.
Charleston City Council has given initial approval to the plan and could sign off on the development as early as next week, clearing the way for the 102-acre property to be annexed into the city. If final approval is granted, construction could start in 6 to 18 months.
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Posted by Pillsbury on December 2, 2008 at 7:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)
You have to watch those "downtowns" on the market, hehe. Great more traffic on Glenn McConnell!!
Posted by jca on December 2, 2008 at 7:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)
more housing that we dont need
nor can we afford
stop destroying the forests freaks
Posted by dave3719 on December 2, 2008 at 8:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)
How about that company widen the damn roads before they start building! Bee's Ferry needs to be four lanes!
Posted by lowcountrydawg on December 2, 2008 at 8:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)
There's plenty of houses for sale in Shadowmoss, Drayton, Springfield, etc...
Why in the hell do we need another development in WA?
Posted by zoomru on December 2, 2008 at 9 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Hmm......
I wonder where the people are going to come from.....
I wonder if there is going to be a NEW Business or Industry announced in the near future for the AREA..??!!
I wonder if they are being enticed with FREE energy..????
Hmm....Follow the MONEY..??!!?
What major INDUSTRIAL land transactions have occurred in a 4 mile Radius....????
Hmm......
Posted by zoomru on December 2, 2008 at 9:17 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Hmm.....
"A Virginia-based real estate company has laid out plans ..."
..isn't Norfolk-Southern based out of ...VIRGINIA..??
Hmm.... wasn't there a LAND swap involving Biedler Forest...????
Hmm..... we have a NEW port where..?? Jasper...
Who sits on what BOARDS...and how does CSX and NS marry up..???
WHO IS GETTING SET...UP...???
Parker's FERRY..????
Posted by zoomru on December 2, 2008 at 9:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Connect the DOTS.....
http://www.thestate.com/nationalpolitics...
Hmmm....don't we have a Titanium Mine Co. moving into Laurens County..?? Didn't Laurens County Landfill just ....EXPAND..???
...who owns TRACK from Laurens to Charleston....???
What is Riley and Summey trying to do..??? ...along with County Council...???
The pressure to get a LANDFILL in Cherokee County involves a NEW rail LINE.....for CSX or NS...???
Citizens.....our leaders are bending US over royally because who is going to be paying taxes for DHEC .."oversight"? Subsidizing the Methane Lollipoop to Milliken..???
I wonder if the Motley LAW firm is up for a CLASS ACTION Lawsuit...???
The state taxpayers are getting...CREAMED....!!!!
MY...GOD !!!
Posted by mkris on December 2, 2008 at 11:01 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Yeee ha
More money for the City of Charlesttn and the South of Broad crowd. Thats all anyone who lives north of Broad Street is .. another of Joe's tax plantations.