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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.
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.”