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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.
Making a buck and tending to the environment are not necessarily at odds.
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.
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.