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 in, and few neighborhoods are as green as Oak Terrace (Preserve) in Park Circle. Each home in the still-growing hood is EarthCraft® certified”.

“The ‘Best Of’ honor shows how far Oak Terrace Preserve has come over the last two years,” injects Elias Deeb, Project Manager for OTP. “This is special in that the readers of the Charleston City Paper select the winners, not a panel of industry professionals. So, that shows that the development’s concept as a green community is growing in local popularity.”

Oak Terrace Preserve is a 55-acre, wholly green built neighborhood located in North Charleston’s Historic Park Circle. The neighborhood development is owned by the City of North Charleston, and managed by The Noisette Company, LLC. The development is projected to have 374 homes and town homes upon completion.

Currently, Oak Terrace Preserve has 36 homes completed and occupied, with 10 sales under contract and an additional 16 homes for sale. Each home at OTP must meet EarthCraft® certification standards of the Southface Energy Institute of Atlanta, GA.

Last December, Oak Terrace Preserve was honored as the only neighborhood in the nation, named by Cincinnati, Ohio-based Green Builder magazine, as one of the leading green developments.

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