I'm generally shy about having my photo taken, but Tom was so polite I couldn't help posing with Marge.
Inside, Front Street Brewery was bustling. The restaurant's Kiss High Prices Goodbye campaign featuring $5.99 lunches and $6.99 dinners has been a huge success, bringing visitors and locals to the restaurant regularly to enjoy the well-prepared, reasonably price meals in a convivial downtown Wilmington establishment.
Marge had gorgonzola salad with grilled salmon.
Ty Downing and I both had pulled chicken nachos. I'd heard good things about this dish. (They were right!)
FSB's owner Tom Harris had southwestern salmon.
There are many fine places to eat in the greater Wilmington, NC area. Approximately 1,100 according to some sources. Try 'em all, but when you want dependable, yummy food in a hip atmosphere where you won't bust your wallet, be sure to go where the locals go . . . to Front Street Brewery. 
From the front the house looks like the other homes on the street, but state-of-the-art solar panels on the back roof provide all the energy used by the house.
Jennie Steele, Stevens Fine Homes Marketing Director took a few minutes to welcome us also.
As did Cynthia Rehberg, on-site sales specialist.
And Stan Powell, the other on-site sales specialist, here talking and laughing with Marge.
Brian Sartan of the Home Builders Association was on hand.
And happy to say a few words:
We also ran into old friend Lin Spears, Sales Manager of the local Countrywide office
With the introductions made and the good info about solar homes and environmentally-conscious building digesting, it was time to party. As you can see from the photo below, Craig Stevens and I were certainly ready!
Middle of the Island, the always-popular catering company, provided the food. It was tasty!
We even had a visit from one of Leland's finest, checking up on the music and the commotion.
You do have to pass a security gate to get in, but once you do, the Discovery Center is the first building on the right. You can go in on your own, but if you do and it's as a result of this blog, please mention my name. Otherwise I'd be honored to give you a personal tour of Compass Pointe and other Leland and Wilmington area communities.
Directly across the street from the sales center there are homes being built, some of which are models (with generous lease back deals for investors) and others for immediate occupancy.
When we arrived on Thursday this truck was also delivering golf carts for a huge promotion they're having this weekend.
The building below is the sales center, with a parking lot on the right.
We met with Angela Batchelor, Compass Pointe's excellent REALTOR relations coordinator.
Before we scurried back to get our lunch (yeah, Alfred, you're right) we stopped to look at the large scale topographical table map of the community.
When we met in a conference room a community map on the wall came in handy.
In the main room is a list of recent sales. It looks during March most of the sales came from people from CT, NY, NJ, PA, and NC with a few others. Overall approximately 45 homes are under contract in this brand new community. Eventually the total will be close to 4,000!
Later Thursday afternoon I went to downtown Wilmington for a REALTOR event at the new Brunswick Forest sales office located on Market Street. This sales office is right next door to the Wilmington office for Compass Pointe - maybe they'll rename that block Leland Street.
Inside the Brunswick Forest downtown sales office window you'll see a neat 3-wheeled bicycle. According to the sales folk during Easter weekend they could have sold that bicycle many times over.
Inside the new office were a passle of Brunwick Forest sales agents and staff as well as some pretty fine food.
And that was Thursday. 
The first neighborhood we visited was Belshaw, with four new models, each an updated version of popular home models Premier Builders has developed based on buyer experience and preferences.
We also toured a new townhome community called Ashwood with two furnished models and 6 models in the unique village-y Shelmore.
Our office is located in the hottest area of one of the most-moved-to counties in the U.S. If you're looking for an area ripe with opportunity, for employment, for business, or great living, call me.
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