Rock Hill, Fort Mill, York look to add over 400 new homes across the county
Plans for more than 400 new York County homes come from Rock Hill, Fort Mill and York.
The county planning commission will hear details on all of them April 14. Two new neighborhoods would replace long-time mobile home properties. Another would build on a site zoned for homes almost two decades ago.
Here’s a look at the latest plans:
▪ JCM Corporation of York County proposes 129 homes and 95 town homes near Rock Hill. The Newport Commons subdivision would go on 85 acres along Old York Road, near Hands Mill Highway. The site is just west of Adnah Church Road.
The property was zoned to allow a subdivision in 2008. Newport Commons will have a clubhouse and pool, two small playgrounds and nearly 10 acres for commercial development.
There are three streams, three ponds and several wetlands on the property. Two homes there will be removed as part of the project.
A sketch plan shows the commercial area fronting Old York Road. The clubhouse and pool area is closer to Adnah Church Road. Larger homes are on the western side of the site. Town homes are closer to the commercial piece.
Prestige Land & Site Works out of Stanley, North Carolina, bought the properties for Newport Commons in November for $4.7 million.
▪ McAfee Redevelopment submitted plans for a 103-home subdivision on 156 acres between York and Rock Hill. The site is on the south side of York Highway, between South Shiloh Road and Topaz Lane. It was previously the McAfee Mobile Home Park.
The new project is called Holler Estates. Lots will be an acre or more, with four new roads running between them. There are neighborhood subdivisions all around the property with Derby Downs, Gray Dove Landing and Whispering Woods. Two streams in along the property lead to Fishing Creek.
The former mobile home park had more than 60 lots. Three years ago, property owners tried unsuccessfully to put a 409-home subdivision on the property. The size and traffic issues related to that manufactured home proposal led to a denial from the county.
Count land records show the site hasn’t been sold since 2007.
▪ Stanley Martin Homes applied to rezone 14 acres on S.C. 160 West to allow for senior living town homes. The 75 units between Fort Mill and Tega Cay would be age-restricted to owners 55 and older.
The Harmony Senior Living Townhomes project involves eight parcels and seven landowners. It’s about 250 yards south of the North Carolina state line along the highway, but only 200 feet from the line at the nearest point. The properties are mostly vacant, but two of them have mobile homes on them.
A sketch plan shows two entrances off the highway and town homes connected in rows of four or five units apiece. There’s a retention pond and a pump station proposed on the northern end of the property.
A letter to county planners from an attorney for the project notes town homes will be “market rate high end” products with half-brick and Hardie board facades. They’ll have one- or two-car garages, sidewalks and open space at the center of the community.
After the planning commission makes its recommendation on the rezoning, York County Council will hold a public hearing May 5. Council would have to approve the rezoning three times.
▪ Changes for a small piece of property in Rock Hill could lead to much bigger ones. The owner of nearly 2 acres at 3463 Mount Gallant Road applied to rezone the site to match an adjacent property. The same owner has nearly 24 acres there. Rezoning the smaller piece would allow the properties to be combined in for one residential project, and have frontage along the main highway.
The property owner has had the site since at least 2008. The owner noted an intent to combine the properties, but didn’t submit plans for what might go on the site, or when.
This story was originally published April 10, 2025 at 12:26 PM.
