Crescent takes leap into home building

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Charlotte-based Crescent Communities, one of area’s most prominent developers, is launching a new single-family home building division.

Fielding Homes, as the new subsidiary is called, is making its first project Fort Mill’s Masons Bend.

Fielding will develop 64 lots near downtown Fort Mill. Homes range from 2,800 square feet to 4,000 square feet and start in the mid-$300,000s.

The company will offer more than a dozen floor plans and 6 exterior options in all. More details will be available on the company’s web site, which as of Feb. 17, was not launched.

According to an Observer report, Crescent CEO Todd Mansfield said Fielding Homes is a natural progression for the company, which until now, has focused on apartments and subdivision site prep on which other builders building out the communities.

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The partial site plan for Masons Bend, showing first-phase home sites.

When completed, Masons Bend will be a 650-home community that will preserve and embrace nature among its homes. Amenities will include pool, walking trails and a clubhouse.

Fielding Homes, Saussy Burbank and The Cunnane Group are the builders on the project. Saussy Burbank’s houses will be priced from the high $300,000s to the low $400,000s. Cunnane’s houses start at just under $420,000.

The 550-acre site plan includes 6 future residential phases, 3 commercial development phases. The community, which is west of Interstate 77 along the Catawba River, abuts the future site of the new Fort Mill Medical Center.

Model homes should be completed in spring and some first-phase homes will be move-in ready during the summer.

For more details on Crescent’s new division and the history of the company, see the Observer report.

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