Established
1999
Acres
435
School District
CHCCS
Village Center
Meadowmont Village
About Meadowmont
Meadowmont is a 420-to-435-acre New Urbanism community on the east side of Chapel Hill, off NC-54. It opened in 1999 and was the Triangle's first master-planned community to mix single-family homes, townhomes, row houses, cottage homes, condos, apartments, and a retirement community on a single site. The community sits on the historic DuBose estate, a 19th-century property with roots in the Barbee family plantation.
Meadowmont Village is the commercial anchor. Harris Teeter anchors the center, alongside restaurants, shops, and services. The UNC Wellness Center at Meadowmont and The Cedars of Chapel Hill life-plan retirement community are both on-site. The Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center, used by UNC Kenan-Flagler for executive education, occupies the original DuBose estate house — a 20,000-square-foot home on the National Register of Historic Places. The North Carolina Symphony performed its inaugural concert on the DuBose estate in 1940.
Meadowmont is built out. Resale inventory is active across all housing types. Occasional custom infill on older lots happens, but no new phases are planned.
Developer and Origins
East West Partners, led by Roger Perry, developed Meadowmont. Perry is one of the most influential developers in Chapel Hill, with a portfolio that also includes East 54 and Village Plaza. The DuBose family approached Perry about developing the land after inheriting the estate, and asked that the development be named Meadowmont — the name Mrs. DuBose gave the property in the 1930s.
The DuBoses purchased the property in 1931 and built their estate house in 1933. They bequeathed it and 27 surrounding acres to UNC-Chapel Hill in the late 1980s, which later built the Rizzo Conference Center there. Roger Perry developed the surrounding 400-plus acres into Meadowmont. McAdams engineering shepherded the approvals through the Town of Chapel Hill.
Architecture and Design
Meadowmont applies the same New Urbanism principles as Southern Village a few years later and at a larger scale. Streets are walkable and sidewalk-aligned. Front porches face the street. Residential blocks mix housing types within walking distance of each other rather than separating them into single-use pods. The community pairs single-family homes, townhomes, row houses, cottage homes, condos, apartments, and The Cedars life-plan retirement community on one continuous site — a range of building types that was unprecedented in Chapel Hill when Meadowmont opened in 1999.
The architectural language sits squarely in the regional Southern vernacular: pitched roofs, painted siding, generous front porches, modest setbacks. The DuBose estate house was preserved as the Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center, which keeps a piece of the site's earlier architecture intact at the historic core of the community. Compared with Southern Village, Meadowmont reads slightly quieter — more residential, less retail density on the village street.
What's Inside
- Meadowmont Village — Harris Teeter, restaurants, shops, professional services
- UNC Wellness Center at Meadowmont — on-site
- The Cedars of Chapel Hill — life-plan retirement community, on-site
- Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center — UNC executive education, original DuBose estate house
- Meadowmont Swim and Tennis Club
- Greenway trails connecting to Chapel Hill's broader trail network
- Multiple housing types: single-family, townhomes, row houses, condos, apartments
Schools
| School | Type | Grades |
|---|---|---|
| Rashkis Elementary School | Public | K – 5 |
| Culbreth Middle School | Public | 6 – 8 |
| East Chapel Hill High School | Public | 9 – 12 |
District: Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools (CHCCS). Verify boundaries before purchase.
Common Questions
No. Meadowmont is resale only and built out. Occasional custom infill on older lots happens, but no new phases are planned.
The land Meadowmont sits on was part of the historic DuBose estate, purchased by David St. Pierre DuBose and his wife Valinda in 1931. They named the property Meadowmont for the meadows surrounding the hilltop. The original 20,000-square-foot estate house is on the National Register of Historic Places and is now the Paul J. Rizzo Conference Center, used by UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School for executive education.
Rashkis Elementary, Culbreth Middle, and East Chapel Hill High — all Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. Verify your specific lot assignment with CHCCS before purchasing.
Meadowmont is on the east side of Chapel Hill; Southern Village is on the south side. Both are New Urbanism communities from the 1990s. Meadowmont has the UNC Wellness Center on-site and tends toward a quieter village character. Southern Village has more retail density on Market Street and Lumina Theater. School assignments differ — Meadowmont is Rashkis and East Chapel Hill High; Southern Village is Mary Scroggs and Carrboro High.
East West Partners, founded by Roger Perry. Perry also developed East 54 and Village Plaza in Chapel Hill.
Meadowmont is part of the broader Chapel Hill real estate market. See the Chapel Hill market overview.
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