Calabash, N.C. – We knew it was going to be big. When you hear talk of a new subdivision that will actually be located in two states, hurdling the Carolina border, you knew the development was going to be truly unique.
In the November issue of the Just For Buyers Realty newsletter we told you of the sudden announcement that the Farmstead Golf Links in Brunswick County was closing down.
The course was famous to golfers across the country because it included one of the rare par 6 holes. The old 18th at Farmstead measured a whopping 767 yards with players teeing off in Little River, South Carolina and aiming at a green that was located in Calabash, North Carolina.
The golf course was open for more than 20 years, but in October terms were reached to sell the land to a developer with plans to build a high-end residential neighborhood. According to published reports that transaction was for an estimated $2.85 million.
Late last month the developers submitted official blueprints to the Brunswick Planning Board.
The new community will be called Coastal Club of the Carolinas.
On the northern side of the border it will include 630 single family homes with 144 semi-attached units to be designed in either a townhome or duplex style. Plans have not been formally submitted in South Carolina, but according to the paper work filed in Brunswick County, the new development will include at least another 400 single family homes on the southern side of the state line.
Brunswick County Senior Planner Marc Pages told the Wilmington StarNews that the project will be similar in style to Leland’s Waterford community, with interconnected waterways built throughout the development allowing kayak access.
Coastal Club of the Carolinas will have multiple entrances on both sides of the state line. In Calabash the plans call for one entrance to be located off Hickman Road with another being built off McLamb Road NE.
If plans are approved construction could start late summer or early fall. When complete it is expected to add at least 7,400 vehicle trips per 24-hour weekday volume to the western part of Brunswick County.