23 December . 2022
2022 Year in Review
From welcoming new businesses and launching our final phase to winning Best Neighborhood in Chapel Hill for the seventh year in a row and continuing our focus on sustainability, 2022 was an outstanding year for Briar Chapel.
We won awards:
- Briar Chapel was named Best Neighborhood for the 7th year in a row by Chapel Hill Magazine. Several of our builders and Veranda businesses were also recognized, including Homes by Dickerson, David Weekley Homes, Breakaway Café, Town Hall Burger and Beer, Oya Cantina, Dermatology & Laser Center and 501 Pharmacy
- Briar Chapel won “Best Landscape Design” at the 2022 STARS Awards
- Myatt Landscaping, Briar Chapel’s landscaping partner, was honored with the 2022 Robert B. McLeod Partners in Placemaking award
- Brookfield Properties was awarded Development Company of the Year at the 2022 MAME awards for the success of our two North Carolina communities, Briar Chapel and Wendell Falls
We continued to be a sustainability leader:
- By third quarter 2022, we reached $8.9M, or 62M kilowatt hours (kWh) of electricity saved over the lifetime of the community, with an average annual home energy savings of $624, or 852 kWh
- We also avoided 15M pounds of carbon emissions by the third quarter of 2022, bringing our total amount of carbon emissions avoided over the lifetime of the community to 132M pounds
We welcomed new homes:
- The Knoll apartments joined the community and are now available for pre-leasing
- We started our final phase which will consist of 15 completely custom homes by McNeill Burbank and Homes by Dickerson placed on the largest homesites in the community
And new businesses:
- We added the monument sign for The District, an exciting new venture that will offer even more conveniences such as apartments, senior living, a community college, restaurants, medical facilities and more
- Food Lion opened in The District
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Located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Briar Chapel offers new homes from the $400,000s. Explore Briar Chapel's resort-style amenities, parks, trails, shopping and on-site schools, a community that has been named Best Neighborhood in Chapel Hill for seven years running!