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Carolina Forest is where we live (in Plantation Lakes) and where our Eagle Realty office is located and is currently the hottest property in the Myrtle Beach area. The schools are second to none, and you are still within ten minutes of the beach. There are some great golf courses and the Highway 31 Bypass makes everything convenient that Myrtle Beach has to offer. Broadway at the Beach is the place to go for restaurants and shopping and is within a five minute drive.
As Jerry C. Ausband states in his article on MyrtleBeachBuilders.com, “Carolina Forest points with pride to its community high school, middle school and elementary school. Carolina Forest Elementary School opened in 1996, with the middle and high schools opening on the same campus two years later. Waccamaw Elementary School and Palmetto Elementary School were later added to the Carolina Forest attendance area, a testament to the growth of this popular area.
In fact, it hasn’t taken long for the high school to outgrow its home. The high school has grown from 575 students in its first year to 1,362 in 2003. So the Horry County Board of Education has decided to push the size of the school to 2,000 students, pending approval of sales-tax-based building bonds. The middle school will be replaced on land already set aside for up to nine schools, with the high school taking over the entire upper-grades building.
Education is the glue that unites the people of Carolina Forest, a planned community like few others – very few – in the United States. But Carolina Forest is more than outstanding schools. Located just 10 miles from beautiful South Carolina beaches, this community boasts shopping, banks, churches, a U.S. Post Office, public golf courses, a new Horry County Fire Station, and much more, all surrounded by the natural beauty that has been so diligently preserved.
Just over a decade ago, IP Realty began selling blocks of land to developers and builders, a move that resulted in a mixture of home styles – something for just about everyone. But it remains, above all, a community where hundreds of acres of parks crisscrossed with hiking trails and the preservation of the environment continue paramount to the lifestyle.
By and large, the individual neighborhoods in Carolina Forest are designed for specific financial needs, family sizes and appropriate geography and landscaping. Each builder/developer has its own sales office and model on-site, but some real estate firms have set up businesses that advertise sales in more than one – and maybe several – Carolina Forest neighborhoods.
For those who love golf, you’re in luck at Carolina Forest. Man O’ War Golf Club plays over, above, through and around an attractive 100-acre lake. The lake features many islands, finger lagoons, inlets and tributaries, all lending to the challenge of the course. From the clubhouse, which is built on pilings over the water, there are pleasant views directly across the lake to The Wizard, one of Man O’ War’s sister courses. The third course in the Carolina Forest trio is The Witch. World-renowned architect, Dan Maples, designed all three courses.
For families that crave convenience, Carolina Forest fits the bill. At the south end of the community, commercial areas are already in up and running to support the growing population. At the north end, land is being cleared for a new retail center called Towne Centre. Carolina Forest may even build its own hospital to make it more self-contained.”