Alan Langstone

Rex Thompson Homes of Charleston's newest neighborhood Blackstone is located in the heart of Berkeley County just off Cypress Gardens Road.

Blackstone community will features 190+ home sites with 3/4 of the lots backing to green space or wooded area. The community will featuring single family style homes with 2 to 4 bedroom homes, ranging from 1000 - 2200 sq ft, and prices will start in the low $100k's.

Blackstone features a unique location where it is very easy to take advantage of the renowned natural beauty, local landmarks, lakes and rivers, and vibrant recreation all within minutes of your front door.

"For the individuals and families wanting to get back to the basics, enjoy leisurely strolls on the sidewalks which will meander through the neighborhood. Appreciate more adventure, by taking in the extraordinary quality of life offered by Berkeley County - a center for the good life!"

Another new 50+ acre development on the corner of Cypress Gardens Road and Hwy 52 will create a village atmosphere of mixed commercial uses including a grocery store along with various retail and office space providing a central location for work, play and shopping...

The neighborhood is within minutes of Summerville, Goose Creek and Interstate 26 and Highway 52 access.

The community is in Berkeley County School District, so the available schools will be Whitesville Elementary, Berkeley Middle and Berkeley High School, with an option of Northwood Academy (Private School).

Beaches and downtown Charleston are only 30 minutes from your door!

The Rex Thompson model's available are;

The prices above should be only used as a guide, as these may vary.

Other Rex Thompson Homes developments include Martin's Creek off Clements Ferry Road, (almost next door to my office), Charleston Farms (located in North Charleston, minutes to I-26 and I-526), Carlton Place (in Hanahan, off Foster Creek Road. Convenient to I-26 and I526) and Meadow Run (located just off of Old Orangeburg Road, 4 miles outside the town of Summerville).

For more information on any of the above please contact me.

The Oakland Plantation Shopping Center off Highway 17N just passed Highway 41, north of Mount Pleasant is finally coming to completion. The Oakland Plantation Shopping Center is an $80 million dollar commercial development on the northern edge of the town of Mount Pleasant.

It has benn constructed on 75 acres located at the corner of Porchers Bluff Road and Highway 17N. The remaining 225 acres of the historic Oakland Plantation will be set aside as a conservation easement.

The Oak Plantation shopping center will have much the same feel has the current Towne Center shopping center in central Mount Pleasant with it's streets, trees and decorative lighting.

Super Wal-mart, Kolhs and a Wachovia Branch Bank have been open for business for several months already.

Now the rest of the shop units are either awaiting tenants or are being shop fitted at present.

There looks to be a mix of the usual food and retail stores that have already committed to open.

This new shopping complex is primarily going to servive communities off Hwy 17 and Hwy 41 like Dunes West, Park, West, Rivertowne, Planters Pointe, Ivy Hall and Charleston National to name but a few.

It paves the way for further development along Highway 17N and for the completeion of the development around the New Wando High school which has been teaching the local children for the last 4 years.

In the center grassed area of the courtyard inspired section of this new development is a statue celebrating the production of Sweetgrass baskets.

This is something the local Gullah community has produced and sold for years, many of these can still be seen being sold along the Hwy 17 corridor and in the market place in Downtown Charleston.

The art, craft and skills involded in producing these baskets are passed from generation to generation and date back to pre slavery, to there origins in Africa.

The following are the new homes available from David Weekly Homes as from 6/5/2008

Should you need any further information please contact me.

For those of you who travel the area frequently, you will have noticed that a new Stop Light has been installed at the intersection of Clements Ferry Road and Cainhoy Road, Berkeley County.

This is an improvement to the junction of these roads, especially if you are turning from Cainhoy Road on to Clements ferry Road towards Mount Pleasant. The reasoning behind it, I'm not sure. There have been a few accidents at that spot and there is more traffic coming down Cainhoy Road with the addition of new subdivisions like Brightwood Plantation.

The thing that I have found strange about this new Stop Light, which as from today is fully functional, is this.

I saw the workmen put in the Stop Lights, I have seen them hanging there for a couple of weeks, I even noticed when they were a flashing yellow signal.

So why oh why do I not see them when they are RED.

No crash or No accident or No jumping a red light, just some hard braking. Luckily no one was following me.

So my message is, even if you know it's there still be careful!

The following are the new homes available from David Weekly Homes as from 5/20/2008

Should you need any further information please contact me.