Public meeting on proposed Kinder Morgan expansion

Here’s your chance to get involved and ensure you and your neighbors have clean air!  The City of North Charleston is holding a public meeting on Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 6:30 pm to discuss the proposed expansion of Kinder Morgan, a massive energy transportation company which transports coal into Charleston.   The company doesn’t have the best environmental record, so it’s [...]

Vince Graham’s Market Report for the First 8 Months of 2008

Value
“These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.”
          ~Oscar Wilde
Through the first eight months of 2008, the media has been reveling in stories about how we’re in a major disaster because house prices are going down and mortgages are increasingly harder to obtain. Unfortunately, few reporters put these stories [...]

I’On Concert for Change on October 11

This comes from our friend William Hamilton…

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Concert for Change Announced for October 11 in Mt. Pleasant
For Immediate Release
Mt. Pleasant, SC- Music of Hope and Community focused on the November elections will fill the air at the Amphitheater in the I’On Community in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina on Saturday, October 11 [...]

Park(ing) Day a Success

In case you missed the story in Saturday’s Post & Courier, here’s an excerpt:
“People who think too much public space is devoted to parking set out to make their point Friday in an annual event known as Park(ing) Day, which in Charleston involved laying down sod and setting up lawn chairs and a pingpong table [...]

More Park(ing) Day Pics

Just to reiterate: Park(ing) Day 2008 was incredible!  Alys Campaigne, our intern Jimmy, and I all had a wonderful time staking out parking spots for people.  It was especially fun seeing babies and dogs enjoying themselves in what are usually such inhospitable places.  It just goes to show the huge potential we have here in [...]

Neighborhood Update from Chad Besenfelder, I’On’s General Manager

The following is an update from Chad, I’On’s manager.
The I’On Company, SCDOT, and the Town of Mount Pleasant are now working together to create a new landscape design for the Mathis Ferry Roundabout.  DOT denied our initial request for an oak tree.  The I’On Assembly agreed to help with the design and planting should begin [...]

Park(ing) Day in downtown Charleston

How much space do you think those metered parking spaces downtown take up?  How much space in any city is ceded to cars and their needs, instead of people and THEIR needs?  On September 19, you can catch a glimpse of what those parking spaces could become, if only we citizens would work together to [...]

I’On Progressive Home Tour and Lowcountry Boil Sept. 4

Join us in I’On on September 4 from 5:30 to 7:30pm for a Lowcountry Boil and tour of 6 beautiful I’On homes.  You’ll enjoy a progressive dinner with appetizers, the boil, and desserts at different homes as you move through the tour.  The builder of two of the homes will be on site to answer [...]

I’On continues to “hold its own” in a slow market

So the Post and Courier reported today in the cover article of the Business Review.  As the numbers show, despite the overall market slump, I’On’s home sales are down only slightly from last year, compared to the Charleston region as a whole, which has endured declines of 30-50% from the real estate boom peak.  For [...]

Not just an outdoor room – but an outdoor DINING room

Ever hosted an outdoor dinner party?  How about one smack in the middle of your sidewalk or street?  Well, this article in today’s New York Times Home and Garden section says that many New Yorkers have literally taken their entertaining to the streets, hosting everything from “backyard” barbecues to lavish dinners on 18th century tables in what [...]