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Will there be a purple home in Ricky Beauchamp’s new Gathering Rock development in Waynesville, NC?

December 20th, 2007 Categories: Gathering Rock

Ricky Beauchamp’s new Gathering Rock mountainside development, in compliance with the Town of Waynesville’s Board of Adjustment, and Ricky Beauchamp’s standards, will adhere to strict rules governing building materials and home colors for the clustered village homes as well as the estate homes. Purple will probably not be included!

Naturally, not everyone is happy about the possibility/eventuality of this new 254-acre residential development, but Gathering Rock certainly appears to be gathering no moss…

“The town’s board of adjustment, after a public hearing, gave the development their endorsement, though there are several hurdles yet to face. The project has come with the strong endorsement of town leaders and has been endorsed by the community appearance commission as well.”

It is sounding like an aesthetically pleasing development to me… and I’ll continue ‘gathering’ info!

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Gathering Rock gated mountain residential development in Waynesville, NC will have a Community website!

December 18th, 2007 Categories: Gathering Rock

Developer Ricky Beauchamp, according to a press release, selected Seedspark, a website development company based in Charlotte, NC, to create a consumer-friendly interactive site for his new residential community development, Gathering Rock, which is in the initial planning/development phase in Waynesville, NC. The first site is being created for Mr. Beauchamp’s development company, Torchlight Properties, to initiate the branding of the developer in anticipation of the next phase of the new gated mountain residential real estate development. The actual Gathering Rock community website will follow, with a June 2008 launch.

“Buying a home site or a home is an active, exciting process. Today’s consumers nearly always visit the community’s website before visiting the actual property. “The Internet has changed the way people shop for everything from books to new homes,” states Brian Smerdell of Seedspark, a website development company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. “It’s our job to create a helpful and fun shopping experience.”

Developer Ricky Beauchamp believes that you must be committed to excellent communication with your residents while they’re still prospects. “The buying, building and moving processes can take a long time. We want our future residents to be able to immerse themselves in their new community and lifestyle immediately,” says Beauchamp.”

Sounds like Mr. Beauchamp is tech savvy!

 

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Want to see architectural drawings for Waynesville, NC’s new Gathering Rock development?

December 16th, 2007 Categories: Gathering Rock

Now that the Town of Waynesville’s Board of Adjustment has issued conditional use permits to Torchlight Properties for the new gated mountain development called Gathering Rock, work on the project can begin. Gathering Rock was formerly known as Waynesville Overlook. According to a recent article in the Citizen-Times:

“The development had to meet a number of criteria to get a conditional use permit for building above 120,900 feet, including: providing a geotechnical survey demonstrating that construction is safe, restricting vegetation removal, using building materials and colors that blend with the landscape, and keeping home sites spaced at a distance of one lot per four acres. Construction is contingent on each part of the project continuing to meet town requirements.

Previously, the hillside development ordinance forbid building above 120,900 feet, but these guidelines were added to allow projects like Gathering Rock at higher elevations as long as they follow the town’s conditions, Waynesville Mayor-elect Gavin Brown said.”

Here are more of the drawings that were released depicting the planned development on Eaglenest Mountain in Waynesville, NC:

A new “North Carolina high!”

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Gathering Rock, new gated Waynesville, NC, mountain development, receives conditional use permits by Waynesville’s Board of Adjustment! Annexation next.

December 14th, 2007 Categories: Gathering Rock

Now that the conditional use permits were issued by the Waynesville’s Board of Adjustment at Tuesday night’s Town of Waynesville meeting, Torchlight Properties, the developer of the new Gathering Rock development on the eastern edge of Eaglenest Mountain, can begin work. Say goodbye to Waynesville Overlook; hello to Gathering Rock!

A petition for annexation of the property to ensure water and sewer service is next on the agenda.

Waynesville Mayor-elect Gavin Brown, who was also ’sworn in’ Tuesday evening, commented about the issuance of the conditional use permits:

“To me, it was very beneficial in the sense that it allows property to be used, but it’s in a way that has to be aesthetically pleasing and physically sound.”

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Torchlight Properties’ Ricky Beauchamp selects architect for Waynesville project Gathering Rock on Eaglenest Mountain, NC.

December 13th, 2007 Categories: Gathering Rock

A recent press release from Ricky Beauchamp’s Torchlight Properties announced that Stephen Fuller was selected to design all of the homes and amenity structures for their Waynesville residential development, Gathering Rock. Mr. Fuller has been featured in Southern Living, Better Homes & Gardens, and House Beautiful, among other publications.

“Fuller has studied the historic architecture of Waynesville for inspiration. He will not be creating log homes or modern art. Instead, he is creating a collection of home plans that can be characterized as Cottage, Arts and Crafts, and Mountain Traditional. “Every home in a community should not only be a beautiful structure itself, but should also enhance the entire streetscape.”

If you would like to read the press release in full, click this!….. Architect chosen for Torchlight Properties Waynesville NC Eaglenest Mountain Development

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Gated mountain community, Gathering Rock, seeking final approval in Waynesville, NC.

December 11th, 2007 Categories: Gathering Rock

Final approval for Gathering Rock, formerly named Waynesville Overlook, is going before the Town of Waynesville tonight (December 11). The Eaglenest Mountain project would consist of approximately 150 homes on the eastern edge of the Mountain pictured below, located in Haywood County. Photo credit: Josh Boatwright.

A lodge, observation pavilion, parks, trails and wooded campsites are also proposed. According to the Citizen-Times, a conditional use permit for building above 120,900 feet will require that the developers meet a number of criteria.

This could take some of the heat off of the Cataloochee Wilderness Resort… momentarily. BuckingtheRealEstateTrend will stay on top of this story!

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