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Unique Places: An innovative development firm in the Triangle helps landowners find creative solutions to suburban sprawl.
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August 1st, 2009
The map is spread out on a farm kitchen table, corners helddown with plates of pimento cheeseand chicken salad sandwiches. Clyde Harris lets his eyes roam over the aerial imagery, taking in the sweep of Franklin Countys greenwoods, the sinuous line that marks the Tar River, the checkerboard of farm fields and cattle pasture.
Eno River Association Protects 36 Acres in Durham County Through Transfer to State Parks
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January 15th, 2009
DURHAM, N.C. – On January 15, the Association transferred two adjacent properties, totaling 36 acres, to the Eno River State Park. These properties protect 1,750 feet of stream buffer along a tributary to the Eno River in Durham County, provide important buffer and access to nearby hiking trails and are designated as a Significant Natural Heritage Area.
Making a buck and tending to the environment are not necessarily at odds.
Unique Places offers 9 Beautiful Mountain Homesites for sale in Bridal Cove Preserve
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August 4th, 2008
Bridal Cove is a pristine mountain preserve with more than 100 acres of hills, forests, meadows, wetlands and riverfront designated for protection, plus shared access to hiking trails and fishing. All nine uniquely and sensitively designed large-acre lots offer spectacular mountain views. www.bridalcovenc.com
A native of Rougement, Guenevere was raised by parents who were green before green was cool. “My mom was hanging clothes out on the clothesline and had a compost pile.” With an interest in public policy and land conservation, and degrees from UNC and NCSU to match. . . .
Guenevere Abernathy had been working in land preservation with various land trusts for about 10 years when it hit her: A developer's profit and green space can live together to ensure more farmland, more open space and safer drinking water.
Bill Lee is an electrician-farmer who finishes many days of his double life sitting on the front porch of his white, two-story farmhouse in northern Orange County, mere feet from the Durham County line, looking out at the past and the future.
Coastal Land Trust and State Division of Forest Resources partner with the Whitehurst Family to conserve 181 acres along Upper Broad Creek in Craven County
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July 16th, 2008
NEW BERN, N.C. – The North Carolina Coastal Land Trust, a nonprofit conservation organization, in partnership with the North Carolina Division of Forest Resources recently purchased a landowner agreement on approximately 181 acres owned by the Whitehurst Family LLC along Upper Broad Creek in Craven County.
When the subject is Privateer Farms in Bladen County, be prepared to talk big numbers. “There’s a 500-pound bear running around my cabin,” says Sharon Valentine, the vivacious co- owner. “He’s eating all my deer.”
BOONE, N.C. — North Carolina’s newest state park gained more ground this month, as mountain conservationists acted quickly to protect tracts that were put up for sale only months ago. High Country Conservancy purchased the 26-acre Yount Memorial Park and the 68-acre Herbert Avery tract and transferred them to the state for inclusion in Elk Knob State Park outside of Boone.
Wetlands protected as part of complex land deal that keeps working farmland in the family
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December 20th, 2007
Conservation real estate firm builds unique public-private partnership that provides permanent protection for 89 acres in northern Durham County.
Public-private partnerships adds land to Nature Conservancy’s Bluff Mountain Preserve
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December 18th, 2007
DURHAM, N.C. –– Unique Places LLC, a conservation real estate company that works to protect natural assets, and the N.C. chapter of The Nature Conservancy today announce the addition of 59 acres to the Conservancy’s Bluff Mountain Preserve. The 2126-acre preserve is located in Ashe County and is widely recognized as one of the most ecologically significant areas in the Southeast.
Unique Places LLC of Durham is building a portfolio of properties across North Carolina flagged by state agencies and land trusts for conservation but also targeted by land developers for residential communities.
Unique Places LLC is a conservation real estate firm that works to protect natural and cultural resources. Founded in 2004 and managed by partners with more than 25 years of combined land protection experience, Unique Places is a for-profit business that harnesses private and public funds to protect land that has a high conservation value. Examples of conservation values include scenic views, water quality and wildlife habitat. After assessing these values, the company then develops conservation strategies to preserve them.