Grand View Commons Video

[mcdude]

Grand View Commons is the name for the new homes being developed out at the old Wolfeboro Airport. The video is a promotional thing for the real estate company but the photography and music are pretty good.

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Photo from photopost - By throttleman 2005

[Lin]

Thanks Mcdude, it was a very pretty video with music. It will be interesting though how many of those trees and shoreline shrubs will be left intact after this development using the shoreline protection act. Did you read any of the documents like the covenants/restrictions? Check out those prices?

[Waterbaby]

Originally Posted by mcdude

Grand View Commons is the name for the new homes being developed out at the old Wolfeboro Airport. The video is a promotional thing for the real estate company but the photography and music are pretty good.

Ohhhhhh Nooooooooo! I didn't know the property had been sold and was being developed, I have such good memories of that place! They go back years, but make me ....... seems like every bit of land is being developed now, and where the heck are the people coming from?

[Lucky2Bhere]

The video was beautiful but the prices are not! I can't believe what they're asking for views that are not even the best on Wolfeboro Neck. There are homes directly facing the Belknaps that are appraised less than the land price alone in Grandview! Add in Wolfeboro taxes and the association fees for so much shared green space and the cost must be mind boggling. It doesn't seem that there is a community marina or beach for all of the land locked lots.

[ApS]

Some news: a "cam" has since been added. In addition, the speed limit at Carry Beach has been reduced from 30- to 20-MPH.

Originally Posted by Lin

Thanks Mcdude, it was a very pretty video with music. It will be interesting though how many of those trees and shoreline shrubs will be left intact after this development using the shoreline protection act. Did you read any of the documents like the covenants/restrictions? Check out those prices?

The convenants included a large tract of forest "...that shall remain intact in Perpituity...". The property has since been bought by the Marriott family, so who knows where that's going.

The future's not going in favor of the many dog-walkers: the formerly-open roads towards the lake are now closed off. (Those roads were opened by Grand View Commons in 2005).

This month, there are new occupants of the one "exhibit" home. I'll have to guess that last week's impromptu biker road-race has resulted in the closing of those roads.

One private road uphill—away from the lake—remains open, but people live in year-round homes there, and are likely to report any further abuses of these few miles of private roadways.

Unresolved is the future of Camp Ossipee's ancient forest: In researching that, I stumbled upon this little blurb that might be of interest to those campers who formerly attended Camp Wyanoke a short walk down the street:

"...In the 1950s and ’60s, the Irons family spent summers on Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. Mrs. Irons managed the private Camp Ossipee at the tip of Wolfeboro Neck while her husband coached tennis and ran the counselor-training program at nearby Camp Wyanoke, where the sons were all campers and then counselors..."

[RI Swamp Yankee]

I presume the road still open is Forest Road which, if I remember correctly, had a portion relocated to be part of Grand View but served residences that were there when Grand View was still the airport.

[ApS]

Originally Posted by RI Swamp Yankee

I presume the road still open is Forest Road which, if I remember correctly, had a portion relocated to be part of Grand View but served residences that were there when Grand View was still the airport.

The remaining part of Forest Road skirting the former runway was officially renamed "Forest Road Extension".

Paved by the Town to the middle of the airport runway decades ago—it is now "Private".

An early-morning walk unexpectedly turned up some answers:

1) Dog-walkers and dog-runners—take heart! The blockage of the road is only between sunset and sunrise.

How can this be managed long-term anyway...??...it's like the toll-road in Blazing Saddles.

2) Camp Ossipee remains intact.

They are not directly involved in the airport sale to the Marriotts; however, a large tract of abutting forest is likely doomed to development, which will impact Camp Ossipee's privacy.

"Nestled" in deep forest, nobody even knows Camp Ossipee exists.

3) I'm told—but have not witnessed for myself—that another night-time blockage extends to the private road uphill.

4) Paving new roadways around the old (now-bulldozed) runway have actually improved aircraft approaches to the old clearing. What an opportunity to build a new runway and surrounding the runway with a "Hanger Community" of homes!

However, long-term plans are for the tract to be gradually developed as the Marriott family grows.

5) To sort-of answer a "disappeared" question from yesterday:

For landing aircraft on the runway, much of the "Broads" lakefront forest in that tract was cut in the late 1940s. I don't know how this impacts any new structures regarding "basal measurement" of existing (or missing) lakefront trees.

Perhaps DES maintains a "minimum-average" of trees? If not, wouldn't that be "A Good Thing"?

[ApS]

Originally Posted by Acres per Second

Dog-walkers and dog-runners—take heart! The blockage of the road is only between sunset and sunrise.

Zot!

There definitely have been some changes since the new owners took over!

Not only is the chain left across the road permanently but joggers, walkers, the many dog-walkers and dog-runners are now physically and legally blocked from entry.

If hundreds of yards of newly-planted 6-foot White Pine trees and new 2-foot boulders weren't enough "notice", the entire area is now officially "posted" against entry.

One-hundred-and-one-acres-±..."off-limits".