MARTHA STEWART CHOOSES CARY FOR FIRST RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY

CARY , NC – Cary , North Carolina has been chosen as the hometown for the first residential community designed and built by Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia and KB Home.  The new Cary community will be called KB Home Twin Lakes: Homes Created with Martha Stewart and will feature approximately 650 single-family homes ranging from 1,500 to 4,100 square feet and priced from the low $200s to the mid $400s, inspired by Martha Stewart’s own homes in New York and Maine .

“The KB Home/Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia partnership will be great for Cary , and we’re very proud to have been chosen to be the first in the country,” said Cary Mayor Ernie McAlister.  “Martha Stewart and KB Home make quality their top priority, which is a perfect fit for Cary where we pride ourselves in offering our citizens the highest quality of life possible.”

McAlister will appear with KB Home representatives at a 2 p.m. news conference today to discuss details of the project at the Cary Chamber of Commerce, 307 North Academy Street in downtown Cary .

Founded in 1871, Cary is a beautiful, thriving community in the heart of North Carolina adjacent to the renowned Research Triangle Park.   Tree-lined streets, well-groomed subdivisions and office parks, and numerous environmental accolades show that Cary has grown the right way as it reached 111,000 residents and became the state’s seventh largest community, a community that’s still officially named the Town of Cary.  

Cary is currently ranked the ninth safest of 354 large cities in America and the safest in the South, and Cary has been in the Top 10 safest cities in the nation since 2000.  The Town’s police, fire, and emergency medical services are all nationally accredited as is its parks, recreation, and cultural resources department. 

Being no further than 20 minutes from major universities such as Duke, North Carolina State, and the University of North Carolina, it's no wonder that education is an important part of Cary life.  In fact, more than two-thirds of adults in Cary hold a college degree, and Cary is purported to have more PhD’s per capita than anywhere else in North Carolina .

Other Select Cary Superlatives

The first municipality in the state to save drinking water by reclaiming treated wastewater for irrigation and industrial use;

A perennial recipient of the Tree City USA award because of its long-term commitment to urban forestry;

Recipient of the Outstanding Planning Award from the N.C. Chapter of the American Planning Association for our Open Space & Historic Resources Plan;

The Triangle's "bike friendliest community" and consistently named a National Bicycle Friendly Community;

Now in its 30^th year, Cary ’s Lazy Daze Arts & Crafts Festival was 2004 Overall Regional Event of the Year by the North Carolina Association of Festivals and Events and the South Carolina Festival and Event Association; the event draws 50,000 people to see and buy art from throughout the nation.

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