Brightleaf at the Park Photos - January 2008 (Durham: for sale, houses)

[sneezecake]

Been looking very seriously at Brightleaf and took some photos I thought I'd share - NRG's are great but a lot of building has been completed since then!

Enjoy!

Entry to Brightleaf from 70


Entry road - maybe 3/4 mile in length


Brightleaf Club Construction - I was told they are targeting Memorial Day 08 for opening but they concede that is aggressive - Still, I'd expected 09 or something


More BL Club construction


Main Entry Circle


Road from Main Circle to Standard Pacific section


One of the Standard Pacific Models


Standard Pacific Neighborhood - Brightleaf Bluffs


More Brightleaf Bluffs


The future Northern Durham Parkway - splitting Bluffs from Crossings (Also SP)


Looking..uh..away from 70 so I guess East. They've done quite a bit of work on this since I last saw (a few mos.)


Looking West


A Standard Pacific basement home - can't really tell but the woods behind are probably 1000 feet away and 20-30 feet below the level of this home - very nice view (but they are building something big back there in those woods and I can't tell what it is)


Crossings (SP) is the section of the smallest homes in Brightleaf


St. Lawrence Model


Drees Model 1 ~2600 square feet


Drees Model 2 ~3000 square feet


One of the St. Lawrence homes that backs up to the lake (barely seen here)


Drees and St. Lawrence section (I don't know the name of the sub-neighborhood)


Drees inventory home for sale - I think this is about 379k and 3000 sq feet


A Drees/St Lawrence Cul de Sac


More Drees/St. Lawrence


Brightleaf Crest - these are available lots and they've just built a few new Drees/StLaw. Homes on this street


Shea Model - ~3200 square feet


A Shea home (Brightleaf Ridge)


St. Lawrence homes in Brightleaf Ridge


More St.L


And another St.L Ridge section


Looking down on a Shea section of Ridge


St.Lawrence inventory home (Somewhere in the 400-450k neighborhood I think)


StL/Shea homes that back up to the access road


Access road to allow the homes on the main street (Golden Belt Parkway) have rear-driveways and side entrance garages


Shea circle and homes in the Ridge

[htj]

great pics, sneezecake! although i think you mean "2008" :-)

A friend of mine lives out there and i really like the development. Plenty of trees, set far back from 70, nice houses. If people can get past their durham-phobia, it seems like a great place to live.

[shigdon3]

thanks for the pics. a lot of construction going on right now out there. should look really nice when they get some of those larger things like the club and the northern durham parkway complete.

also, the construction that you referenced of something very large in the woods set back behind that basement home in the crossings is an elementary school that they are targetting to have complete for the upcoming school year i believe.

[christinabean]

Sneezecake- thank you for the wonderful pictures! You captured a great cross-section of the homes in Brightleaf.

I may be wrong, but I am thinking that the Crossings section doesn't have the smallest homes in the development-we just purchased one of the homes that you got a pic of, and it is 2875 square feet. We looked at several by Drees that were smaller...I do however know that one of the next phases of SPH homes will be larger than the one we just signed contract on

Thanks again!

[christinabean]

Shigdon- the agent at SPH told us that the school will be a junior high school...they think that it will even be done in time for school in the fall-pretty ambitious?!

[NYCinNC]

Love the Front Porches

[sneezecake]

OOPS - 2008 is right - Mods can you please change!?

Christinabean - I will reply to your DM, but you are right, I know the home you are talking about and it is BEAUTIFUL! We walked around back when it was for sale. The Crossings has that strip along the wetlands that are very nice/upscale - I should say the Crossings is home to the smaller SP homes, but is not exclusively comprised of those. I think that's where one of their 2000 sq. foot models was, though.

[ibeg4sushi]

Wonderful pictures. Thanks SO MUCH! for sharing. Pictures are always a big help.

[christinabean]

Sneezecake- I think that you are right about the smaller homes-as a general rule-they are located in the Crossings section of Brightleaf! I think most likely that is because SPH generally has built smaller homes in Brightleaf, and that section is only SPH.

I am really hoping that as the agent at SPH mentioned, larger homes will will shortly be built in that section, which will only help increase the value of everyones property

[autumngal]

Originally Posted by sneezecake

OOPS - 2008 is right - Mods can you please change!?
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Done . And don't forget to put a link to these in the photo thread .
Thanks for taking them, good stuff!