Middleburg Communities to Develop 211-Unit Single Family Rental Community in Johns Island, South Carolina

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Hamlet Maybank to be built on Johns Island, one of the fastest-growing submarkets in the MSA

VIENNA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Middleburg Communities (“Middleburg”) today announced it has closed and plans to commence construction on a 211-unit single family housing community on an approximately 46-acre land parcel in Johns Island, South Carolina, one of the fastest-growing submarkets in the Charleston Metropolitan Statistical Area. Middleburg plans to leverage its in-house construction capabilities to transform the land into a vibrant neighborhood community that will offer individuals and families the opportunity to partake in the benefits of single-family living without the hassle of property maintenance and upkeep. The community, to be known as Hamlet Maybank, is a joint venture between Middleburg and Parse Capital (a subsidiary of The Wolff Company).

“Hamlet Maybank promises to deliver an exceptional single-family living experience in the heart of one of America’s most active submarkets”

Hamlet Maybank will be a low-density multifamily development that will feature a mix of detached cottages, duplexes and townhomes with floorplans designed to cater to today’s active lifestyles. Middleburg plans to commence construction in early-2023, with units coming online beginning mid-2024. All homes in the community will feature best-in-class amenities with environmentally friendly designs and private backyards that will allow residents the opportunity to enjoy the outdoors – a luxury that is unavailable in most traditional multifamily developments.

“Hamlet Maybank promises to deliver an exceptional single-family living experience in the heart of one of America’s most active submarkets,” said Selim Tay-Agbozo, President of Middleburg Development. “The value proposition our Hamlet brand offers is unmatched – all of the comforts of home ownership with the ease and flexibility of renting and no down payment required – and that is why we are experiencing overwhelmingly strong demand in the other high-growth Southeastern markets where we are developing this prototype. We have no doubt we will experience similar interest at Hamlet Maybank, especially as more and more individuals choose to relocate to hotspots like Charleston and seek out traditional neighborhood environments to raise families.”

In addition to several high-quality interior features that Hamlet Maybank will offer, including spacious kitchens with islands, granite countertops and stainless-steel appliances, Bluetooth keyless entry, Nest thermostats and large walk-in closets, the community will also offer its residents a number of resort-style amenities, such as a freestanding clubhouse and pool, walking paths, tree-lined streets and professional landscaping. Floorplans will range in size from 785 to 1,694 square feet, with monthly rents starting at $1,930.

The proposed site of Hamlet Maybank, located at 2029 Harlow Way in Charleston, sits just 20 minutes from Downtown, more than 68,000 jobs and a number of the area’s main attractions, including beaches, golf courses, restaurants and nightlife. What’s more, given its natural beauty, welcoming lifestyle and economic development, Johns Island has experienced a 50 percent increase in population growth over the past 12 years and is projected to continue being a preferred destination for people of all ages.

Financing for Hamlet Maybank was provided by First National Bank.

About Middleburg Communities 
Middleburg is a leading investment firm maximizing value through a fully integrated approach to the acquisition, development, construction and operations of high-quality attainable rental housing. Since 2004, Middleburg has acquired and developed more than 22,000 apartment units, executing over $3 billion in transactions. The Middleburg team shares a vision for greater value creation through community impact. The firm’s success is rooted in a genuine desire to serve its local communities in thoughtful and holistic ways. Middleburg embraces people, property, and partnerships to enhance the lives of others, contribute positively to its neighborhoods and maximize real returns for partners. For more information, please visit www.middleburgcommunities.com.

About Parse Capital 
Parse Capital, a subsidiary of The Wolff Company, is a provider of joint-venture and preferred equity alongside sponsors for the development, recapitalization, and acquisition of residential communities within the United States. Since 2013, Parse has made over 75 investments for a total of $1.2 billion in equity deployed. The Wolff Company is a fully-integrated real estate firm that traces its legacy back to 1949. Wolff focuses its investment activity within the residential sector and has acquired or developed over 50,000 residential units since inception. For more information, please visit Parse at www.parsecap.com and The Wolff Company at www.awolff.com.

North Charleston Police Ptl. Caroline Yeargin gets “Lifesaving Award”

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Please join NCPD in congratulating Ptl. Caroline Yeargin, the recipient of our agency’s “Lifesaving Award” and “Employee of the Month” for August 2022. On August 3, Ptl. Yeargin responded to a call from a woman in distress. Officer Yeargin prevented the woman from harming herself.

Great job!

(Pictured with Ptl. Yeargin is Major Aiken.)

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Congratulations to the Joint Base Charleston Airman Leadership School Class of 23-A Graduates

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JB Charleston’s Airman Leadership School Graduates Class of 23-A

By Airman 1st Class Caleb Parker – Joint Base Charleston Public Affairs JOINT BASE CHARLESTON, S.C. – Congratulations to the Airman Leadership School Class of 23-A graduates.

The John L. Levitow Award:

SrA Sydney Mcdougal, 15 AS

Academic Achievement Award:

SrA Harrison Winchell, 1 CTCS

Commandant Award:

SrA Abigail Fernandez, 437 APS

Distinguished Graduate Award:

SrA Kristin Brandenburg, 437 MXS

SrA Aleea Barreras, 14 AS

SrA Kody Barrett, 14 AS

SrA Lake Benjamin, 437 OGS

SrA Sergio Sanchez-Penate, 437 MXS

SrA Trey Cook, 437 MXO

SrA Jeremy Stroud, 437 AMXS

SrA David Altman, 437 AMXS

SrA Michael Cox, 437 AMXS

SrA Isabella Pierro,437 OSS

SrA Dexter Brown, 560 RHS

SrA Victoria Young, 94 MSG

SrA Keenan Washington, 315 AMXS

SrA Zachery Sweeney, 38 APS

SrA Samantha Caughman, 38 APS

SrA Carl Murphy, 81 APS

SrA Amanda Brown, 143 OSS

SrA Alexis Olson, 114 MX OPS

SrA Daniel Hernandez, 1 CTCS

SrA Amanda Miller, 628 FSS

SrA Stephanie Groszek, 628 SFS

SrA Zachariah Abdul Aziz, 628 SFS

SrA Chelsea Craddock, 28 SFS

SrA Tae Kwon Hector, 628 LRS

SrA Megan Vann, 628 LRS

MN3 Stephen Swann, NWS Charleston

YN2 Zachary Seligson, Joint Base Charleston

IT2 Cole Reber, Joint Base Charleston

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Goose Creek, SC Domino’s gets a new Chevy Bolt EV

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The Goose Creek Domino’s is one of the newest recipients of the newly rolled out Electric Vehicle fleet of cars being rolled out by Domino’s nationwide.

Domino’s recently unveiled 800 Chevy Bolt EVs across the nation and Goose Creek was one of the locations chosen.

Thank you, Kerri Hayman, Franchise Owner for Charleston, SC, and Augusta, GA for this share.

The vehicle looks great!

Learn about Septima Clark, the “Mother of the Movement” – Johns Island’s Native Daughter

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A pioneer in grassroots citizenship education, Septima Clark was called the “Mother of the Movement” and the epitome of a “community teacher, intuitive fighter for human rights and leader of her unlettered and disillusioned people” (McFadden, “Septima Clark,” 85; King, July 1962). 

The daughter of a laundrywoman and a former slave, Clark was born 3 May 1898 in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1916 she graduated from secondary school and, after passing her teacher’s exam, taught at a black school on Johns Island, just outside of Charleston. For more than 30 years, she taught throughout South Carolina, including 18 years in Columbia and 9 in Charleston. 

Clark pursued her education during summer breaks. In 1937 Clark studied under W. E. B. Du Bois at Atlanta University before eventually earning her BA (1942) from Benedict College in Columbia, and her MA (1946) from Virginia’s Hampton Institute. Clark also worked with the YWCA and participated in a class action lawsuit filed by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) that led to pay equity for black and white teachers in South Carolina. In 1956 South Carolina passed a statute that prohibited city and state employees from belonging to civil rights organizations. After 40 years of teaching, Clark’s employment contract was not renewed when she refused to resign from the NAACP. 

By the time of her firing in 1956, Clark had already begun to conduct workshops during her summer vacations at the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee, a grassroots education center dedicated to social justice. Rosa Parks participated in one of Clark’s workshops just months before she helped launch the Montgomery bus boycott. After losing her teaching position, Myles Horton hired Clark full-time as Highlander’s director of workshops. Believing that literacy and political empowerment are inextricably linked, Clark taught people basic literacy skills, their rights and duties as U.S. citizens, and how to fill out voter registration forms. 

When the state of Tennessee forced Highlander to close in 1961, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference(SCLC) established the Citizenship Education Program (CEP), modeled on Clark’s citizenship workshops. Clark became SCLC’s director of education and teaching, conducting teacher training and developing curricula. King appreciated Clark’s “expert direction” of the CEP, which he called “the bulwark of SCLC’s program department” (King, 11 August 1965). Although Clark found that most men at SCLC “didn’t respect women too much,” she thought that King “really felt that black women had a place in the movement” (Clark, 25 July 1976; McFadden, “Septima Clark,” 93). 

After retiring from SCLC in 1970, Clark conducted workshops for the American Field Service. In 1975 she was elected to the Charleston, South Carolina, School Board. The following year, the governor of South Carolina reinstated her teacher’s pension after declaring that she had been unjustly terminated in 1956. She was given a Living Legacy Award by President Jimmy Carter in 1979 and published her second memoir, Ready from Within, in 1986.

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8 Affordable Apartments coming to Liberty Hill, the oldest community in North Charleston, SC

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The Lecque Legacy lives on.

The Lecque Family is one of the four founding families of Liberty Hill. Founded in 1871 by 4 freedmen, Liberty Hill is the oldest community in North Charleston. As the City of North Charleston continues to grow, the Lecques are doing their part to ensure that long-time residents of Liberty Hill can continue to live affordably in their neighborhood.

Metanoia is proud to be partners with the Lecque Family to construct Golden Dream Townhomes, consisting of 8 affordable apartments in Liberty Hill. Bringing this project to life advances neighborhood goals to establish quality housing and generate economic development.

So many neighborhood partners were supportive contributors in making this dream a reality!


Photo Credit: Sirena White-Singleton

United Airlines orders 100 Dreamliners with an option for 100 more

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United Airlines has ordered 100 new Boeing 787 Dreamliners in a contract with an option to add 100 more — the largest widebody aircraft order by a U.S. carrier in commercial aviation history, according to the company.

This order will bring United Airlines total aircraft to roughly 700 new narrow and widebody passenger aircraft by 2032 to support its global fleet.

“Boeing is our largest exporter (with) high-tech manufacturing jobs — the very kinds of jobs we are working hard to repatriate to the United States,” said Scott Kirby, chief executive officer at United Airlines.

Approximately 100 planes in the widebody order are expected to replace older Boeing 767 and Boeing 777 aircraft, with all 767 aircraft removed from the United fleet by 2030. United also exercised options to purchase 44 Boeing 737 MAX aircraft for delivery between 2024 and 2026. It ordered 56 more MAX aircraft for delivery between 2027 and 2028.

United expects to take delivery of the new widebody planes between 2024 and 2032 and can choose among the 787-8, -9 or -10 models, providing flexibility to support a wide range of routes.

Boeing’s Dreamliner program is based in North Charleston, which is one of two final assembly locations for the 787-8, -9 and -10.

Executives said the order will support United Airlines’ move in expanding its global fleet and adding more international flights, in line with the company’s United Next plan.

In the last two years, United added 13 new international destinations, 40 new international routes and extra trips to 10 existing international routes.

The Boeing 787 Dreamliner promises a premium flight experience. More than 90% of the United Airlines international widebody planes already feature the United Polaris business class seat and big seats that turn into beds along with luxury blankets and pillows.

The new planes will be more fuel efficient with an expected 25% decrease in carbon emissions per seat for the new planes compared to the older planes they are expected to replace. Kirby noted that supply chain issues have improved in the last six months, giving executives confidence that the Dreamliners will be delivered on or close to schedule.

“While the supply chain is challenged at both Boeing and Airbus — and we’re already a little bit behind on aircraft deliveries this year — we’re going to take delivery of an awful lot of airplanes in the next few years, even if some of them get pushed to the right a little bit,” said Kirby. “We’ve already taken into account some expected delays.”

The order is expected to lead to increased hiring at United Airlines. The Chicago-based company hired 15,000 people in 2022 and is on track to add another 15,000 next year.

The airline hired about 2,400 pilots and plans to add more than 2,500 pilots in 2023, with a goal to add 10,000 pilots in the next decade. United will hire more than 18,000 new flight attendants in the coming years with more than 4,000 expected to join the team in 2023.

More details about the United Airlines-Boeing announcement will be available later today following a media tour of Boeing South Carolina.

Contact Jenny Peterson at 843-849-3145.

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Which Carolina Is Better? North Carolina Vs South Carolina

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About this video:

If the Carolinas were a single US State, it would be the nation’s 5th largest (only smaller than California, Texas, Florida, and New York). Of course, North and South Carolina isn’t a single state, I mean they were for a short time, but that was centuries ago.

North Carolina is the bigger state today, it has more people and businesses and it’s a top 10 US state by population. South Carolina is charming though, it has better natural attractions too, and with cities like Myrtle Beach, you shouldn’t be surprised to learn that South Carolina is the 7th most visited state in the US. In this video

I compare and contrast the states of North and South Carolina, breaking down which state is better and which state has a brighter future. Of course, I also take the time to explain why we have two Carolinas in the first place, as the Carolina rivalry is as old as the United States.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpFQz9zJU8g

The Philip Simmons Memorial Garden – Charleston, SC – New video by SouthCarolinaETV

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The Philip Simmons Memorial Garden or “Heart Garden” at the St. John’s Reformed Episcopal Church in Charleston, SC was a collaboration sponsored by the Spoleto Festival to celebrate two of South Carolina’s internationally known artisans: blacksmith Philip Simmons and topiary artist Pearl Fryar.

This was Philip Simmons’s church, and the grounds are surrounded by his decorative ironworks including this peaceful garden that is full of topiaries created by Pearl Fryar.

The Garden Club of Charleston now maintains this garden and has recently enlisted the expertise of property artist Mike Gibson, who worked with Pearl and who also brings in his unique style, to provide workshops for their members that demonstrate different pruning techniques ideal for these topiaries.

In this video, Clemson Extension Agent and host of “Making It Grow” Amanda McNulty talks with Philip Simmons Foundation member Rossie Colter about Philip, Pearl, and the history of the garden and then Amanda talks with Mike Gibson on the day of one of the workshops.