Dimensions Annual Review 2014 - 5

Building Communities
from the Ground Up
Walton Targets Major Growth Corridors
The Walton Group of Companies, a multinational, family-

southern Maryland, Dewberry is providing rezoning

owned real estate investment and development group, is

assistance and engineering services for a 1,100-acre new

known for its vision in designing and planning dynamic

community. The development draws inspiration from the

new communities. The company's forward-thinking

area's rural character and natural setting, with a focus on

strategies have led to high-profile residential and mixed-use

conserving land and water resources and helping to solve

projects throughout the U.S., including several in or near

local and regional connectivity issues.

major urban centers along the East Coast.

Planning for the Active Adult

In Northern Virginia, Dewberry's projects for
Walton include Heritage Woods, a 378-acre residential
community in Spotsylvania County; and Sherwood,

In the fast-growing region of Central Florida, Walton is

a 1,190-acre community in Stafford County. Two new

planning two communities that reflect high standards

communities are proposed near Charlotte, North

for land conservation as well as a focus on designing

Carolina: the 619-acre Dutchman's Creek in Mount

neighborhoods that promote an active lifestyle for adults

Holly, and the 141-acre Willowside Grove in Gaston

and traditional neighborhoods for families. A new phase

County. In Georgia, Dewberry is providing due diligence

of Ridgewood Lakes in Polk County, just west of Orlando,

and master planning services for Winslow Park in

will retain a significant amount of the 2,136 acres as

Athens-Clarke County, and permitting assistance for

open space and parkland, with recreational trails and

Arcade Meadows in Arcade.

bike paths winding through the community. Dewberry is

"Walton takes a patient and disciplined approach

providing planning, site/civil engineering, surveying, and

to land planning and development. When we invest in

environmental services for the project, which is currently

a project, we make a generational commitment to the

planned for single- and multi-family homes as well as

region and work together with local stakeholders to

retail, commercial, and institutional space.

design communities that everyone can be proud of," says

Further north, Dewberry has also begun

Edward Fleming, president of Walton Development and

preliminary planning for Walton's new Panasoffkee

Management, USA. "While each region is different, by

Preserve in Sumter County, Florida. Located a mile west

working with respected and national firms like Dewberry,

of I-75, the proposed development consists of more

we are able to consistently design projects that meet

than 1,000 acres of land. As currently envisioned, it will

the needs of the local community while preserving the

feature single- and multi-family homes, an amenity that

natural character of the land and creating amenity-rich

favors the active-adult lifestyle, and large expanses of

neighborhoods."

open space.

High-Quality Investments
With strong in-house resources in market research
and analysis, Walton has invested in several growing
communities in the eastern U.S., with projects underway
in Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. In
Spring 2015

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