Balsam Mountain Preserve Home Gains Highest Green Certification
SYLVA, NC - July 20, 2010 - A 5,800-square-foot vaulted timber-framed home recently completed at Balsam Mountain Preserve is only the second project in Western North Carolina to gain a prestigious LEED-H Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council as well as earn the highest statewide accreditation point count of any N.C. HealthyBuilt Home Gold project in history. Click Here to Read More >> |
Balsam Home Featured In The Asheville Citizen-Times
 "Having spent a life in furniture, Dave Walters appreciates craftsmanship. And he loves beautiful wood. Even more, he loves it when the two come together, as they do in his timber frame home at Balsam Mountain Preserve near Sylva. The N.C. HealthyBuilt Mountain Rustic house, sided in local stack stone and reclaimed Sinker Cypress, is LEED certified, meaning that it was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance in energy savings, water efficiency, CO2 emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts".
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Balsam Home Awarded Top Certifications
 There are nearly 60 homes completed now at Balsam, and one its newest has earned the highest statewide accreditation point count of any N.C. HealthyBuilt Home Gold project in history. It is also one of the first homes in western North Carolina to achieve LEED-H Gold status from the U.S. Green Building Council. The homeowners have recently formed a green building "dream team" consultancy company to help other families navigate through the process of building environmentally focused and ultra-energy efficient homes.
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Business NC Magazine
Balsam Ranks High Among Best Courses In The State For 2010, #2 In The Asheville Area
 "For the fourth consecutive year, the North Carolina Golf Panel is proud to partner with Business North Carolina magazine to publish its rankings of the best golf courses in what we believe is the best state for golf. Our list of the top 100 courses is determined by a scoring system that asks panelists to consider a course's conditioning, routing, design, strategy, memorability, fairness, variety, and aesthetics."
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Smoky Mountain News
New Owners Take Long View On Balsam Mountain Preserve
 "With other mega developments spiraling into bankruptcy and foreclosure across the mountains, lenders and developers are taking notes as they watch the turnaround of Balsam Mountain Preserve. One key is a high-quality development to start with. The other is a savvy and well-leveraged lending firm behind the scenes, which, like TriLyn, was willing to take the reins when the developers floundered".
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The Mountaineer
Balsam Mountain Preserve Makes A Comeback
"In an unprecedented turn of events in today's economic times, an upscale development on the Haywood/Jackson county line that hit rocky financial waters has made a comeback. After a six-month hiatus, Balsam Mountain Preserve has resumed club operations and marketing and sales of its remaining 120 home sites".
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Asheville Citizen- Times
Balsam Mountain Preserve Club Re-opens
"Amid all the gloom and doom reports about the golf course/real estate development business locally and worldwide emerges the rise from the ashes of Balsam Mountain Preserve, which went from foreclosure to re-opening in just more than six months. A 4,440-acre private community between Sylva and Waynesville that includes an 18-hole Arnold Palmer designed golf course, BMP opened to rave reviews in 2008".
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Ken Costanzo Named Balsam's New President
 An international resort industry veteran will oversee the next phase of development and operations at Balsam Mountain Preserve, the luxury residential community in the heart of the Great Smokey Mountains near Asheville, North Carolina.
Ken Costanzo, the former president of Gary Player Real Estate, has been named President of Balsam, which features an Arnold Palmer golf course and 4,400 acres of nature preserve surrounding 354 home sites, seventy percent of which have already been sold. Costanzo will be accountable for all club operations, managing the community's extensive facilities, and the sale of its 123 remaining available homesites.
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Links Magazine
Balsam Named One Of America's Premier Properties
 Balsam Mountain Preserve was recognized by Links Magazine in its December, 2009 "America's Premier Properties" edition. Balsam was given special recognition as one of the Best Communities For Outdoor Pursuits, along with communities in Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah, and Montana, just to name a few. Links noted, "Sure, golf is an outdoor sport, but it can't match the exhilaration that comes with activities like mountain biking, whitewater rafting, or hunting. Many of Links' Premier Properties provide access to lakes, rivers, trails, and mountains, and if you're just as apt to pack your rod and reel as your golf clubs, check out one of the following 14 properties".
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Asheville Citizen-Times
The first annual Balsam Mountain Preserve Charity Golf Tournament exceeded expectations in a big way. The goal was to raise $10,000 for three local charities and the new Jackson County Library, but thanks to an overwhelming response from sponsors and participants, over $30,000 was raised for these worthy causes!!
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