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Community Profile Location: Eight miles north of downtown Charleston Category: Adaptive reuse and infill Number of homes: 5,000-plus anticipated during the next 20 years What $300K will buy: A high-quality 1,800-square-foot cottage, with $50K left over Closest latte: Park Circle Coffee n' Cream
photography: Brie Williams
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Civic Pride The developer's tagline for Noisette—"The New American City"—is a bit misleading. A city already exists here: North Charleston, which has grown from 7 to 73 square miles and to a population of more than 85,000 since it was incorporated in 1972. At North Charleston's historic core, however, is a critical 3,000-acre zone that by the 1990s had mounting problems, including a deteriorating prefab-home neighborhood, run-down public housing projects, outdated utilities, and a decommissioned Navy Yard. Today, those 3,000 acres—dubbed Noisette, after an 18th-century botanist—are being reshaped in a massive effort that may indeed result in a model new city, where sustainability and quality of life are the top priorities. "Our decision-making process takes into account three things: people, planet, and prosperity," says Elias Deeb, a project manager for the Noisette Company, which created the master plan and is redeveloping the 340-acre Navy Yard. "We try to find the sweet spot where all three are represented equally." Cottage Connection: The Noisette Company LLC; 843/302-2100 or noisettesc.com | 
