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Vuilder Program Debuts and Design Center Opens at The Cliffs

BUILDER PROGRAM DEBUTS and DESIGN CENTER OPENS at THE CLIFFS
Homebuilding and decorating decisions made easy through expert assistance

Travelers Rest, SC (January 9, 2006) – Two new services for property owners are now fully operational and already helping families realize their dreams of building a semi-custom or custom home at The Cliffs Communities: a Signature Builder Program and an interiors-focused Design and Selection Center. See www.cliffscommunities.com/signatureseries and www.cliffscommunities.com/designcenter. “With our buyers coming from 45 of the 50 states and six international countries, developing services that will assist them in designing, building, and decorating their home here, from afar, are top-of-mind for us,” stated Ken Costanzo, Chief Operating Officer of The Cliffs Communities.

“Through the Signature Builder Program and our new Design and Selection Center, we can equip homesite owners with a series of semi-custom home plans preapproved by our communities’ Architectural Review
Boards and connect them with experienced professionals in architecture, land planning, construction, and interior and landscape design,” continued Costanzo. “Leaning on a team they can trust allows the homebuilding process to go smoother, on time and on budget.”

The Cliffs Signature Builder Program leverages The Cliffs’ relationships with the best custom homebuilders in the Western Carolinas to present a collection of semi-custom, high-quality home plans designed to complement each of The Cliffs’ four private, master-planned residential communities. Through the Signature Builder Program, owners may enjoy a significant reduction in design costs and a more hassle-free, streamlined homebuilding that includes onsite consultations, material selection, and guidance on the many important decisions that accompany custom homebuilding. Currently, The Cliffs Signature Builders include Allora LLC; Bergeron Builders, Inc.; Gabriel Builders, Inc.; Pendleton Homes; and Tyner Construction. The Design and Selection Center at The Cliffs offers property owners one source for an umbrella of fine goods and services:

• Installed Furnishings: This includes cabinetry, countertops, appliances, faucets and showerheads, flooring and carpet, doors, fireplaces, cabinets and door hardware, lighting, windows, custom closets, landscape design and installation. Featured lines include Wood-Mode and KitchenCraft (cabinetry), Hurd and Marvin (windows), Herbeau and Phylrich (plumbing), and Viking, Sub-Zero and Gaggenau (appliances), Rocky Mountain and Emtek (hardware), Beam Central Vac Systems, Fusion Systems (home theater), Organize It (custom closets), along with dozens of others.

• Furniture and Accessories: Including custom made and special order furniture, decorative accessories,
lighting, paintings, rugs, and silk greenery. Featured lines include Bernhardt, Fairfield, Stanley, Sam Moore, Art as an Antique, Theodore Alexander, Ralph Lauren, Lexington, Haberstam, Flat Rock Furniture, and Pulaski.

• Soft Furnishings: Custom made and special order bedding, upholstery and pillows, draperies, shades and shutters. Featured lines include Custom Bed and Drape, Eastern Accents, English Home, Lili & Co., and Sweet Dreams.

• Interior Design Consultation: From on-staff, inhouse experts with over 40 years of experience in fine goods sourcing and interior design.

Providing the customer competitive pricing at multiple price points, the Design and Selection Center at The Cliffs carries the very highest grade industry brands. Designers and vendors meet with clients in the Center, facilitated by inhouse client service specialists, allowing selection processes typically taking weeks to happen simultaneously and within days.

The Design and Selection Center at The Cliffs includes a 2,800 square-feet Inspiration Villa at The Cliffs Valley community, and an 8,000 square-feet receiving and storage warehouse that will soon house a window selection center and furniture showroom in Travelers Rest, SC, with significant expansion plans in the coming years.

About The Cliffs Communities
Founded in 1991 by Jim Anthony, The Cliffs Communities is devoted to the sensible development of luxury
residential communities and other properties, within the United States and around the world, in accordance with a philosophy of protecting the integrity of pristine environments while offering its residents and members the very best lifestyle provisions and amenities.

The Cliffs' domestic properties include four premier, private master-planned residential communities located along the leading edge of the Blue Ridge Mountains between Asheville, NC, and Greenville, SC, collectively bordered by over a million acres of national forests and state parks. The Cliffs offers homesites from $200,000 to over $2,000,000 and custom homes from $600,000 to over $4,000,000.

To discover panoramic living at The Cliffs, call 1-866-435-5123 or visit www.cliffscommunities.com/pr.

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Contact:
Jamie Prince
Director of Corporate Communications
The Cliffs Communities
jprince@cliffscommunities.com | 864.239.3526