Eddy Kicker's Blog: Greenville South Carolina News

Greenville South Carolina's latest luxury home development, Blackstone, has been announced and will be located on the Eastside of Greenville, just off Blacks Road. The 32 acre tract will include 16 homes with prices starting in the $900,000 and up. Styling will reflect an "Old World" theme and will be largely influenced by English-inspired architecture.

Lot sizes will vary from 2/3 acre to 1 1/2 acre with lot prices starting around $250,000.  Home sizes will be between 4,500 to 6,000 square feet. Four builders have been selected for Blackstone and any other builders would need to be approved by the architectural review committee.

This past Saturday the State of South Carolina held the Republican Presidential Primary. This meant the week leading up to the primary was an all out blitz by the Republican candidates. They all made use of extensive television ads and annoying telephone calls throughout the week. One day alone we had 10 calls at my home encouraging us to vote for their candidate. Now that the Republicans are off to Florida for the next primary, we have the Democrats heading to the state for their Primary which will be January 26th. Thank goodness for caller ID to help monitor the calls.

A welcome break from all the political activity occurred on Thursday when we had our first snow of the winter. In the south it doesn't take much snow for the kids to get excited and for…