Tag Archives: Bundoran Farm
Bundoran Farm Foreclosed on, Continuing On
Bundoran Farm, having been foreclosed on by Wells Fargo, looks to continue on as a preservation development. Hopefully. Continue reading
Bundoran Farm on Virginia Public Radio
From Joe Barnes with Bundoran Farm : Virginia Public Radio recently aired a segment on Bundoran Farm and our efforts to preserve the character and use of the 2,300 acres of this legacy landscape, promote on going environmental stewardship and craft a great place for people to live in and enjoy the countryside of Charlottesville, Virginia and Albemarle County region. WVTF’s Sandy Haussman reports on this new model of conservation development we refer to as “Preservation Development.” In addition to providing as high level overview of the development concepts, you can hear first hand comments from Fred Scott, the previous owner of Bundoran Farm, Mary Tillman, one of Bundoran Farm’s Founding Stewards and Ed McMahon, a Senior Fellow with the Urban Land Institute. Here’s a link to the podcast Continue reading
Nature, Children, Play and Neighborhoods
I learned a tremendous amount from listening to the discussion on Sunday’s Wake-Up Call on WNRN as Kate and Rick discussed nature, interacting with nature, play, roaming, neighborhoods … this post will be expanded with show notes when I make time to listen to it again, but here is my question –
Particularly if you live in the Charlottesville area, which areas or neighborhoods do you perceive to be best located, designed or implemented to take advantage of nature?
I mentioned Belvedere, Farm Colony and Bundoran Farm, (Bundoran Farm) but surely there are others that are … Continue reading…
Bundoran Farm – Preservation Development Near Charlottesville Virginia
Disclosure: my firm, Nest Realty Group, is marketing Bundoran Farm in conjunction with three other firms in the Charlottesville area. I would be posting about them regardless of any affiliation I might have; I was talking about them in 2007, long before I was with Nest. I was then and am now genuinely interested in and intrigued by the project (it’s hard to call it a "development").
The New York Times says today in Growing With the Crops, Nearby Property Values:
And in more rural areas, developers are buying big tracts of ranchland and selling small lots
Bundoran Farm – How All Development Should Be
This is a pretty great note about the Bundoran Farm preservation development in Albemarle County: (click through to read the whole thing)
I received this nice letter below from Joe Barnes at Bundaron (sic) Farm after posting about his wonderful conservation development. I want to share it with you. I love his comment about the TV reporter. This is how all development should be
More on Bundoran Farm:
Search for land for sale in Bundoran Farm. If you have any questions, please contact me anytime.… Continue reading…
Geobarn at Bundoran Farm
If you’re not paying attention to what’s happening at Bundoran Farm, you should be. They are building, and blogging about, their Geobarn as they develop the Baldwin Center for Preservation Development.
* This is a test post – I’m trying out a few new things … the search module you see below as well as the video box to the top right … thoughts/feedback welcomed.
Update: RSS readers need to click through to see the video.
Update 2: Broken link fixed.
