A Message From Burton’s Founders

Development Team

Pace Lynch is an Atlanta-based development, investment, and brokerage firm devoted to creating remarkable places. With a focus on building walkable communities with unique lifestyle offerings, Pace Lynch and its principals have led a wide array of creative projects including luxury residential, high-end commercial, mixed-use, and more. Pace Lynch’s development philosophy is deeply devoted to quality and born from a belief that things don’t get better by chance, they get better by change. Pace Lynch’s projects have been the recipient of extensive honors including Best Mixed Use Community of the Year (both nationally and regionally), numerous OBIE awards for building and design excellence, and other regional design awards.  The firm is actively engaged with the National Town Builders Association, the Urban Land Institute, and the Congress for New Urbanism.

Lew Oliver Inc. is an urbanism, master planning, town planning, building design firm with over a decade of experience advancing New Urbanism and residential design. The firm produces “whole town solutions,” envisioning, designing and implementing whole towns. Master plans are designed with each community’s values, local vernacular, and climate in mind. The pedestrian experience, respect for the land, sharp-witted attention to detail, and celebration of many family make-ups and backgrounds underpin all LOI endeavors. LOI considers how to enrich both the landscape and its inhabitants. The physiological and psychological wellness of residents in LOI’s communities is paramount.Oliver, Principal of Lew Oliver Inc., is a preferred design consultant of renowned Duany Plater-Zyberk, having undertaken over 40 charrettes internationally. He was instrumental in the design and development of Trilith, Downtown Woodstock (GA), Southlands, Vancouver (BC), Vickery (GA), Rosemary Beach (FL), Celebration (FL), Serenbe (GA), Lost Rabbit MS, Village at Hendrix AK, and more. He is celebrated for extraordinary attention paid to form, detail and proportion, making for beautiful, timeless, innovative designs. His design collection is versatile and comprised of highly marketable plans with stylish exteriors.

P. Allen Smith has parlayed a lifelong passion for the natural world into a career that allows him to share garden, home, and lifestyle knowledge and insights with a worldwide audience. As a conservationist, author, and television host, he is a trusted resource for tried-and-true methods as well as cutting-edge knowledge in small farms, gardens, and ecological communities. Whether it’s old-school flocks, eating local, or green innovations, he combines them all at the farm he designed at Moss Mountain—a place grounded in history, inspired by his southern upbringing, and guided by modern-day application. He has designed landscapes around the US for over 30 years, all with a unique regard for the environment.

Sales Team

Ansley Developer Services offers a powerful platform for new-construction and condominium-conversion sales, combining local-market expertise with national and international reach.Their firm brings together the skills, relationships and knowledge of partners with more than 60 years of sales, marketing and advisory experience, to deliver strategic solutions that minimize risk and maximize returns for residential real estate developers.Backed by one of the largest independent brokerage firms in the U.S., with proprietary technology and agency-quality in-house marketing, Ansley Developer Services is an invaluable partner throughout the development process, from conceptual planning through sellout. Executive Team:  Bonneau Ansley (Managing Partner), David Tufts (Managing Partner), Scott Fischbach (Vice President), Tucker Sarkisian (Marketing Director)

MG Farris
404.354.5880
mgfarris@ansleyre.com
Scott Johnson
404.909.6341
scottjohnson@ansleyre.com
Denise Miller
678.296.7022
denise@ansleyre.com

Builders Guild

Winner of over 60 Obie awards for regional excellence, McKinney is the leading builder in the nationally award-winning Trilith community and the historic leading builder of the Serenbe community, in addition to two additional award-winning communities - the Village at Williams Park in Smyrna and the Gardens at Arbor Springs in Newnan - both recognized as "Community of the Year" by the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association. The company has established itself as one of Georgia's most decorated builders, recognition as a Professional Builder magazine "Housing Giant" among America's top 250 builders by revenue for five consecutive years, and notably received the 2024 21st Annual Avid Award Cup for achieving the highest customer ratings among all Custom Home Builders in North America.

Led by a team of 3rd generation custom home builders dedicated to their craft, Redwood Home Builders is a leading luxury home builder with decades of experience delivering exceptional craftsmanship and innovative design. As a testament to their commitment to excellence, Redwood has received more than 20 OBIE Awards from the Greater Atlanta Home Builders Association—the premier honor recognizing outstanding achievement in new home construction, remodeling, and renovation throughout the Atlanta region - and has been named Contractor of the Year by the National Association of the Remodeling Industry.   Experts in energy-efficient construction and geothermal systems, Redwood is committed to building homes at Burton that are as sustainable as they are beautiful, reducing operating costs and promoting healthier living.

Hafner Construction has specialized in building luxury custom homes at Lake Burton and around metro Atlanta for more than 20 years. Led by founder Grant Hafner, the firm has completed over 300 distinguished projects across the Southeast in partnership with architects, developers, designers, financiers, and clients.  The celebrated firm emphasizes precision craftsmanship, quality materials, clear communication, professional project management, and a collaborative approach to bring complex builds from concept through completion, producing timeless homes that reflect design integrity and lasting value.

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