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OTP Block Party set for May 22nd
It’s time to celebrate! On May 22nd we’re getting together with the folks from the Sustainability Institute to celebrate winning the Home Depot Foundation Award of Excellence for Sustainable Community Development.
Come out to the FREE event for food, fun, games and more. Meet our green home builders and take a tour of OTP. All of [...]
OTP Best New Development 2010
…and 2009. Thanks to the Charleston City Paper for honoring Oak Terrace Preserve for two years back-to-back. From the City Paper, “Oak Terrace won this honor last year, too, and North Charleston’s new signature community is still growing and getting recognition for green practices.”
Full story here.
OTP Builder Named EarthCraft Builder of the Year
Crescent Homes SC was recently named EarthCraft Builder of the Year by the Greater Atlanta Home Home Builders Association and Southface.
“The Builder of the Year award recognizes an EarthCraft House builder that constructs projects above and beyond standard code-built homes and establishes best-building practices to decrease energy consumption in a new home. A team of [...]
The Home Depot Foundation Award of Excellence
The City of North Charleston and The Sustainability Institute have been awarded the 2009 Award of Excellence for Sustainable Community Development from The Home Depot Foundation. Oak Terrace Preserve was a major part of North Charleston being chosen as a winner.
WATCH THE AWARD VIDEO HERE
The Foundation sent a team of experts to over 30 cities [...]
Charleston City Paper Lists Oak Terrace Preserve as ‘Best New Development’ for 2009
The Charleston City Paper, the Lowcountry’s alternative weekly newspaper, recently announced that the green built Oak Terrace Preserve neighborhood in North Charleston was voted “Reader’s Pick – Best New Development for 2009”. This is the first time that the City of North Charleston-owned project has received this honor.
The Charleston City Paper story read, “Green is [...]
Oak Terrace Preserve Wins Award from Green Builder Magazine
Green Builder Magazine focuses exclusively on residential sustainable development and construction. For the first time, the magazine has named its picks for the Green Builder Home of the Year Award. Out of submissions from around the country, Oak Terrace Preserve made the cut to win this year’s award with 11 other projects. Out of the [...]
Oak Terrace Preserve Featured in “Living Green”
The next “Living Green” episode will be aired November 29th on FOX 24 (Comcast channel 6) at 12:00 PM and again on December 6, 2008 at 11:30 AM on MyTV (Comcast channel 13). Along with Beezer Molten of Half-Moon Outfitters, the show will feature Elias Deeb from the Noisette Company discussing the “green” aspects of the Oak Terrace Preserve (OTP) neighborhood. Along with Elias, [...]
Noisette’s John Knott Interviewed on Fox News
Noisette’s own John Knott was interviewed on the Fox Business segment called “In the Green.” John spoke about the success of the Noisette project even during tight economic times. A great moment of publicity for Noisette and Oak Terrace Preserve. Check out the video.
Oak Terrace Preserve Resident in Charleston Magazine
Oak Terrace Preserve resident Ben Leigh is part of a feature article on the Sustainability Institute located just down the road from Oak Terrace. The article gives a short overview of the ways this North Charleston non-profit helps individuals and businesses make a difference for the environment and their pocketbooks through energy efficiency.
The Sustainability institute is also [...]
Building Sustainable Communities Conference Visits Oak Terrace Preserve
This week the Southeast Watershed Forum is meeting in downtown Charleston holding a conference called Building Sustainable Communities. A couple hundred participants have come together to talk about their successes and challenges to building sustainable futures for all of us. Oak Terrace Preserve project manager, Elias Deeb gave a tour of the neighborhood to a smaller group [...]
Oak Terrace Preserve is an earth-friendly community with great parks and schools, Park Circle’s dynamic nightlife, restaurants and shopping a bike-ride away. Embraced by beautiful trees, each home is built combining the latest technology in efficiency, sustainability and value – all the natural ingredients for the good life.
