HistoryThe Noisette Project In a unique public-private partnership, the City of North Charleston and the Noisette Company announced the Noisette Project in March 2001. The goal is to revitalize a 3,000-acre area where the City first began including about one fifth of the former Charleston Naval Base. The Noisette Company, a master community developer focused on sustainable revitalization of what is now known as the Navy Yard at Noisette, a 340-acre area that will be developed in a remarkably environmentally friendly way. The redeveloped brownfield will be an urban density mixed-use city center for North Charleston, and a leading example of building a sustainable community. The Noisette Community Master Plan looks at all aspects of built and natural infrastructure. Click here to view the full plan online. The Noisette Company and The Noisette Foundation The master planning effort revealed many persistent unmet needs within the community. As a result, the Noisette Company created the Sustainability Institute
(1999), the Michaux Conservancy (2003), and the Noisette Foundation
(2005). The Sustainability Institute educates the community
to think and live sustainably. The Foundation has healthy and restorative
pathways in six critical program areas created with the vision of
being the community steward for the surrounding environment, education,
human health, social justice, economic development, and the arts.
The Michaux Conservancy is the environmental “arm” of
the Noisette Foundation. Click below to find out more. The Sustainability Institute
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The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece
of land without
spoiling it.”
Aldo Leopold
