
A September 2011 aerial photo by Cam Finley is marked by the developer with key landmarks and information.
By CHIP DAWSON
DavidsonNews.net

Barbara and Buddy Ferrell stand on the site of their future home. (Photo by Carrie Settle, Cunnane Group)
What courage! Setting off into the unknown to make a new life. Wilderness all about and the only shelter still to be built.
Meet Buddy and Barbara Ferrell, the first residents of Antiquity. In 2007, the Ferrells, who already lived in Mecklenburg County, read about Antiquity in the Huntersville Herald and decided to take a drive. They came down South Street from the north, crossed the covered bridge – which impressed them, they said – and decided to buy what was then a field with a “for sale” sign sitting in it. When they closed on their new Cunnane Group home on March 10, 2008, they beat the next resident by just seven days.
Today, four years after the Ferrells moved in and five years after the project was approved, the couple has been joined by 207 other households on the 130-acre site. Originally planned for 1,000 units and with Town of Cornelius approval for 702 combined single-family and multi-family properties, the current full build-out target is 413 for-purchase residential units plus 94 apartments — roughly half the original plan. Continue Reading