You can still catch glimpses of old Indian Land driving down U.S. 521, but it’s getting harder as midrise apartments, single-family homes, townhouses and commercial centers increasingly crowd the corridor.
A who’s who of homebuilders have signs along the highway advertising their new homes coming soon to the area. Pulte Homes, underway on its Kinsdale community off 521, touts that its Indian Land homes “combine South Carolina’s unique cost of living and education benefits with Charlotte convenience.”
In some ways, growth and new housing options were what leaders of Indian Land sought when they wrote their land regulations in 2016: They figured that growth into Lancaster County was inevitable, so it made sense to steer development toward Indian Land — which is immediately south of Ballantyne — rather than to less-populated parts of the county with inadequate infrastructure…