Palmetto Dunes Real Estate
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About Palmetto Dunes
Combine a world-class vacation resort with private residences, and Hilton Head Island's Palmetto Dunes emerges. Developed in 1967, this plantation borders the Atlantic Ocean and is located directly across from Shelter Cove Harbour. PD contains two privately gated neighborhoods, the Leamington community and the Mariner's section, as well as luxury resorts by Marriott, Hilton, and Disney. Here you will also find the island’s deepest yacht basin at Shelter Cove, three miles of beaches, an 11-mile lagoon system, approximately six miles of bike paths, three golf courses, and plenty of tennis courts. The Palmetto Dunes community has even been recognized by Forbes magazine as one of the Top Eleven Family Resorts!
Security Features
Palmetto Dunes has two security gates operating 24 hours a day. Access into the private residential areas, as well as the resort areas, is strictly controlled.
Palmetto Dunes: History
The Hilton Head Agricultural Company owned the only land left on Hilton Head not already owned by Hack, Fraser, or McIntosh, 1,900 acres of hunting land. The tract finally sold to the Palmetto Dunes Corporation (outbidding Fraser) in 1967 for $1,000 per acre. The Palmetto Dunes community was intended to outshine any previous island projects as a much more intense vacation experience. While other plantations were either major resort destinations or private residential areas, Palmetto Dunes incorporated both ideas by building a second internal gate dividing its private residential sector from the ritzy resort areas.
Later, in 1971, Phipps Land Company and Trans International Properties Corporation of New York together purchased and incorporated the resort. (PLC had earned a successful reputation as the first major financial provider for Sea Pines Plantation). Palmetto Dunes was then sold to Greenwood Development Corporation (formed in 1978 by Jim Self of Greenwood Mills) in 1979, after which ownership and management of the community has finally transferred to the Palmetto Dunes Property Owners Association on January 1, 2006. The final change occurred after an extremely long lawsuit, based on the POA’s claim that GDC refused to explain its assessment spending since 1979. In the settlement, Greenwood Development Corporation agreed to transfer both ownership and management by 2011 (GDC acquiesced early).
