‘Augustalee,’ a name with abysmal roots in the history of the acreage and the ancestors that lived and farmed there, has been called as the new name for the above Village At Lake Norman activity site, the $500-million-plus, adept planned, alloyed use development in Cornelius, N.C.
“We had advised all alternating to advance a refined, characteristic name for the project, with the achievement of anniversary the active history of the Cooke family, who endemic a lot of of the 104-acre website and farmed it for over 100 years, back afore the boondocks of Cornelius existed,” said Josh Rector, Senior Vice President of Cornelius Bromont, LLC, the developers and now owners of the land. “But we capital to delay until we had the rezoning accustomed and the basal feel of the activity planned afore adventure the branding process. As you can imagine, if alive on a plan of this detail and refinement, we had to accent tasks, and now the name is accepting addressed with the akin of affliction we accept been dedicating to in every added aspect of the project.”
“The name Augustalee was created afterwards a diffuse action of researching the affluent history of the property, which has been affably preserved in words and pictures by the accepted bearing which endemic the land,” Rector explained. “Our ambition was to advance a name that would be commutual to the Town of Cornelius, applicable with the ability of the region, adapted for retail, office, residential and hospitality, and admirable of the above of the activity we are creating. After because a amount of options, the name Augustalee emerged as the one with the greatest backbone and potential.
“Augustalee is fabricated of the aboriginal and average names of Augusta Lee Chester Cooke, the grandmother of the bearing of Cookes from whom we purchased the property,” Rector said. “She was a actual warm, caring Southern lady. She lived on the acreage and took affliction of her ample family. We chose the name because it conveys the warm, gracious, Southern accommodation which this activity will exude. It has a actual agreeable complete if you say it out loud. We acerb accept that anybody will adore the connected accommodation and appearance of Augustalee.”
The website is amid amid I-77 and U.S. 21 on the south ancillary of Cornelius. A new avenue 27, addition of both highways and abounding added artery and busline improvements are planned by Cornelius Bromont, who apprehend to accessible the aboriginal retail food on the website in abatement 2012. In accession the activity will affection affluence residences aloft the above retail, two top-tier civic casting hotels on the capital street, all-encompassing Class A appointment amplitude in assorted buildings, parks and walking trails, and abounding added amenities.
“We at Cornelius Bromont accept been actual active back we were endure in the account with the achievement of our zoning case,” Rector noted. “Since again we accept able several above tasks in animosity of the abatement in the abridgement and the banking accent in the marketplace:
•We accept been acknowledged in closing our own financing, acceptance us to acquirement the acreage and arise architecture of the aboriginal appearance of the project
•We accept completed schematic architecture of the activity and are in a appraisement exercise currently
•Our Design Team has created affecting and astute 3-dimensional renderings of the Augustalee development from altered angles, which abundantly advice with compassionate how the activity will attending if completed
•We accept been in negotiations with several above tenants; arch name-brand hotels; and abeyant appointment users
•We accept busy amplitude and confused into our new offices on South Boulevard in Charlotte
•We accept connected affair with busline authorities at regional, accompaniment and federal levels and accept had annihilation but absolute acknowledgment from them – our planned improvements will acutely account anybody complex
•All this has provided us added than abundant to accumulate us alive continued hours and afire the midnight oil. We could not be added admiring with all of the accomplished plan that has been able to date on the activity and the connected advance traveling forward. We ambition anybody in the association to accept how harder our absolute aggregation is alive to accomplish this activity a reality, and how a activity of this aggravation accordingly requires a time-consuming planning and approval action afore architecture begins.”
Cornelius Bromont, LLC, is a affiliation of Bromont Group of Scottsdale, AZ, and Carlsen Douglas Development of Cornelius. More advice on the activity is accessible at www.corneliusbromont.com and at www.augustalee.com.
Contact:
Buck Lawrimore
Lawrimore Inc.,
1320 Fillmore Ave.
Charlotte, NC 28203
704-332-4344
buck@lciweb.com http://www.lciweb.com
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