The fishing lake in Brechin Park was just one of several factors that led the Grant Moore family to their new home in Fayette County.

The Moores, who are moving to this area from Jonesboro, became the first residents of Brechin Park, a new neighborhood in Fayette County named for an ancient city in Scotland called Brechin (pronounced “Brecken”).

Grant Moore, Good Cents Program product and brand manager for the Southern Company, said the “time was right” for selling their old home, and the family started looking for a new home in Fayette County, where they had always wanted to live.

Moore and his wife, Jan, agreed that a major consideration was getting their 13-year-old son, Jared, into Fayette County's highly regarded school system. Brechin Park is across Ga. Highway 74 from Fayette County's newest school complex, which houses Starr's Mill High School, Rising Starr Middle School and Peeples Elementary School.

Jared is now an eighth grader at the middle school, and he is looking forward to attending Starr's Mill High School in the future. “Jared also likes the lake,” said Moore. “He's caught fish out of it every day since we moved here.

“We also wanted to select a builder we could trust when we made our new home purchase,” said Moore, whose family is now living in a home on Bontura Drive built by Ravin Homes.

“I've worked with Ravin Homes through the Good Cents Program for over 15 years, and I know the Rossetti family.” “I also liked the fact that the Ravin organization is active in their local home builders association and that they have supported the organization's program,” he added.

Moore said that while work was proceeding on the family's new home, he was able to work with Michael Rossetti, president of Ravin Homes, to include several “special features,” including a screened porch on the back which has a 15.5-foot-high cathedral ceiling and a detached four-car garage.

Brechin Park is being developed by Starrsville Development Corp., a joint venture of the two home builders there, Ravin Homes and Ray Wright Homes Inc. When completed, the neighborhood will have approximately 80 homes priced from the $200,000s to the $300,000s. Home sites are a minimum one acre, and some waterfront lots will be available.

For information about the Ravin Homes in Brechin Park, phone Donna Simpkins, the company's marketing representative in the neighborhood, at 770-716-7830.

The neighborhood contains two seven-acre ponds, Brechin Pond, which will belong to the homeowners association, and another pond which is owned by a private homeowner.

The community also will have a gazebo, park, nature trail, curbs and underground gutters, street lights, and will be served by county water lines and gas and electric lines.

There is a strict set of protective covenants and restrictions. Ravin Homes, which is building 40 of the homes in the community, was founded by Vince Rossetti, a veteran of more than 40 years in home construction, and has produced thousands of homes in Peachtree City over the past quarter of a century.

The family-owned company has also built in Eagle's Landing, White Oak and StoneBriar communities in Fayetteville.