Here’s where new, high-end Rock Hill residences may next be built
High-end townhomes and new homes near the Catawba River are the next part of residential growth in Rock Hill.
The city planning commission met Tuesday night. In addition to mostly industrial projects covering about 2,500 acres along I-77, the commission heard current and coming plans for homes.
Integrity Development Group applied to annex and rezone 23 acres along West Main Street and Heckle Boulevard. The property has frontage on both roads, but doesn’t include their intersection. The site is adjacent to Herlong Ridge community, just south of Huntington.
Plans include 90 new townhomes. The land is largely wooded now, with one home on a parcel. Access would come off Main, via a new public road.
“This would be a new public street that would come in and extend all the way down, with on-street parking on both sides,” said City Planner Dennis Fields.
Most of the frontage along Heckle sits in or near floodplains.
“There would be a lot of areas that they would not be able to disturb,” Fields said.
Lennar Homes would build the project. Johnnie Hastings with developer Integrity Development Group said the new sites won’t be typical townhomes.
“These are going to be three-story townhomes,” Hastings said. “They will start at a purchase price of $350,000. They are two-car garage.”
Canopy Realtor Association collects home sale data in the Charlotte and surrounding regions. Through August, the more than 1,300 closed sales this year in Rock Hill averaged $285,000.
There will be a fence and landscape buffers around the property. Hastings said initial thoughts were for 120 townhomes, but his group settled on 90 units to allow the alleyways and other features required by the city.
Rock Hill City Council will hear the project as early as this month, and will have final say on the annexation.
The new home portion of Marvell is ready to move forward, too. The community at 2114 Riverchase Boulevard will be a mix of boutique apartments and homes along the Catawba River. The entire property was zoned a year ago to allow those uses. The city approved site plans for the apartments, a first phase that involves the reconfiguration of Riverchase Boulevard, in September.
Now the Charlotte-based property owner is ready for the home portion. It will have 69 lots on 19 acres.
Another project will have to wait a bit longer. The planning commission had an application for property at Laurel Creek Drive and Twin Lakes Road on its October agenda, but it was deferred until November. CH Acquisitions has almost 32 acres there and plans to annex and rezone the property into a master planned development.
