News Title:The Blue Heron Retreat Community Sign has been constructed and many of the roads have been established
As of late March 2025, most of the roads have been development and the Blue Heron retreat Community Sign has been constructed!
Ashton Woods continues to work towards a timeline that will start presales in Blue Heron Retreat in the early part of the summer of 2025.
Preliminary plans from Ashton Woods in Blue Heron Retreat are showing approximately 74 single family homes - named the Blue Heron Retreat: Oasis Series. Within the Blue Heron Retreat: Oasis Series of single family homes, preliminary plans from Ashton Woods are showing 65 these single family homes to be situated along the Intracoastal Waterway. Preliminary plans from Ashton Woods are also showing an additional 210 villas (Blue Heron Retreat: Villas) – some with pond views. Future community amenities in Blue Heron Retreat by Ashton Woods will be a swimming pool, pickleball courts and a day dock on the Intracoastal Waterway.
Blue Heron Retreat: Oasis Series Homes will feature:
Single-family homes
3 to 5 bedrooms
2 to 4.5 bathrooms
1 story homes
2 to 3 car garages
8 home plans
Square footage from 1,590 to 2,983
Pricing from the $400's
Blue Heron Retreat: Villas will feature:
Villas
3 to 3 bedrooms
2 to 3 bathrooms
1 to 2 story homes
1 car garage
1 home plans
Square footage from 1,058 to 1,551
Pricing from the $300's
A new home community location along the Intracoastal Waterway is obviously appealing, but proximity to the Robert Edge Parkway that feeds right into the heart of North Myrtle Beach likely further increases that appeal. Robert Edge Parkway extends from SC Highway 90 west to US Highway 17 at Main Street in North Myrtle Beach and includes a bridge over the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway and an interchange at Carolina Bays Parkway. The Robert Edge Parkway (named after Robert Edge) opened in September 2009 and was the final project in Horry County’s initial Road Improvement and Development Effort (RIDE) program. Robert Edge is a well-known name in the Grand Strand. Robert Edge, Sr. was the first mayor of North Myrtle Beach in 1968 when the beach towns of Ocean Drive Beach, Crescent Beach (of which Robert Edge Sr. had been the mayor) and Windy Hill came together to form North Myrtle Beach.
Ashton Woods is an award-winning luxury home builder. Ashton Woods might be relatively new to the Myrtle Beach area, but the company began building homes in 1989 and now Ashton Woods is building design-forward homes in thoughtfully selected communities across the country. Ashton Woods is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, but sells new homes in not only the Myrtle Beach area, but also in Atlanta, Austin, Charleston, Dallas, Houston, Orlando, Phoenix, Raleigh and San Antonio. In 2017, Ashton Woods launched Starlight Homes for those who always felt the dream of home ownership was just out of reach. Now, over 50,000 families have had the privilege of calling an Ashton Woods or Starlight home their own.
Blue Heron Retreat will be the second Myrtle Beach area new home community under the name Ashton Woods. Ashton Woods has been currently building homes in Carolina Forest - in the new home community named Trieste at Bella Vita.
Under Ashton Woods' Starlight Homes brand, there are two new home communities in the Myrtle Beach area: (1) Andalusia in Longs, and (2) Plantersfield in Conway.
