Magnolia Landing has two public parks in City of Charleston review, and neither comes with a building.
The newer one is a 3.5-acre waterfront park at 2329 Braswell St., on the Ashley River side of the 192-acre site. It first went to the city's Technical Review Committee in October 2025, then sat 13 months before engineers at Reveer Group refiled it. On Nov. 12 the answer was "Revise and Return." More changes, then back again.
The other, Magnolia Entrance Park, is 6.94 acres. It got the same answer in January.
Both belong to HR Charleston VII, the Highland Resources entity that owns this old wood treatment and fertilizer ground. Since breaking ground in February 2025, Highland has trucked in more than 250,000 cubic yards of fill, and a seven-story office building is in the same review pipeline. So the parks share the front of the line.
On a master plan this big, the usual order is rooftops first and amenities once rents can pay for them. Filing public parks in the first round flips that. This site has been a promise for about 20 years, and a park people can walk into beats another rendering. I think it's the right call. Over a build-out that runs to 2040, early goodwill is cheap insurance.
Plans call for about 25 acres of parks and 1.5 miles of public waterfront, with parks projected by 2028. Neither park has city sign-off yet.
Sources: the City of Charleston's Technical Review Committee (Nov. 12 results, waterfront park and review history; Jan. 15 agenda, Entrance Park), Live 5 News (groundbreaking, site history) and its June 2025 report (parks, waterfront), ABC News 4 (fill, park timing), REBusiness (2040 build-out) and Iskagna (office building)
