Portfolio
Unique Places enhances land values across the Southeast.
The Unique Places Portfolio includes conservation communities with limited development, conservation partnerships that result in protected parkland, and conservation design projects that preserve family farmland. We engage in a projects located across the Southeast that range in scope from 25 to 5,000+ acres.
Unique Places partnered with the N.C. Chapter of The Nature Conservancy to add 59 acres to the Conservancy’s renowned Bluff Mountain Preserve, located near the North Carolina/Virginia border.
Unique Places partnered with Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy to add 239 acres of biologically significant land to the scenic Chimney Rock State Park in Western North Carolina.
Unique Places created a watershed plan for Cypress Creek in North Carolina’s Franklin County. The plan will serve as a statewide model for watershed planning. Partners include the N.C. Department of Transportation, the N.C. Farmland Preservation Trust Fund and the N.C. Clean Water Management Trust Fund.
Unique Places worked with the Harris Family in North Carolina’s Franklin County to preserve their 3,200-acre family farm with a combination of forest and farmland easements.
Unique Places worked with Durham County to preserve 50 acres of working farmland and 32 acres of bottomland in the Little River Watershed, which feeds into the drinking water source for citizens in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Unique Places developed a master plan—including stream restoration, carbon offsets and a developing Sustainability Campus––for protecting this 5,500-acre farm located near Fayetteville, North Carolina.
Unique Places worked with the N.C. Coastal Land Trust to help the Whitehurst family preserve a significant portion of the 1,600 acres they own near New Bern, North Carolina.