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being built where, please call 556-3409
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answer it. For large residential
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'planningzoning_subdivisions.aspx?rld=308
and look for “plan review information.”
We will update information
as we get it.
We answer your questions
From Allen:
“What’s coming on the corner of New
Falls and Capital? That’s a large tract
being surrounded by orange fencing.
Answer:
It will be the Rex Health Park at
Wakefield. There will be a
39,500-square-foot wellness center and a
113,000-square-foot multi-specialty
ambulatory care center.
The wellness center will be
similar to those Rex operates in Cary
and Garner, with a gym, heated pools,
physical rehabilitation services and
nutrition and exercise programs.
The ambulatory care center
will provide therapeutic and diagnostic
services, heart, vascular and oncology
services. It will not be an emergency
room. The WakeMed North Healthplex at
the corner of Falls of the Neuse and
Durant roads, already provides an
emergency room for the area.
In the future, the health
park will be part of a larger
development that will have retail space,
a library, hotels and other commercial
uses.
When representatives from
Rex introduced the plan to the Wake
Forest commissioners last summer – see
the June 7, 2006 issue of the Gazette –
clearing was to begin later in the
summer.
The main entrance to the
health park will be on Forest Pines
Drive.
From Chris:
Nice article on the TND. Something I
did not see – where are these children
going to school? Is a school planned in
the development?
I’m not well educated enough
about the development. I know we have
to grow, but it seems that this is just
another “plan of the day,” another
“commerce center” to draw business away
from downtown Wake Forest.
While I like convenience, I
miss going to the rodeo where Home Depot
now sits and actually being able to
drive down South Main in less than 20
minutes (or longer). We are no longer a
small town – that’s for sure.
Answer:
The editor has lost her crystal ball and
does not have a clue where all the
children in Holding Village or Reynolds
Mill or Austin Creek or Bowling Green or
… well, pick your favorite subdivision …
are going to sit or where all the
teachers are coming from, to name a few
of the looming questions.
She did send the question on
to Lori Millburg, the District 1 school
board member, and we will see what she
says. Given the decision by the county
commissioners Monday, she may be as much
at a loss as the rest of us. But we all
know there have to be seats, teachers,
books and all that a school offers for
all the children who will pour in the
doors.
Maybe it is time for an
adequate facilities ordinance in Wake
County, stating that adequate roads,
schools, water and sewer have to be in
place or on schedule before homes are
built for new residents who would
require all those facilities.
From Robert:
I would like to know if you know what is
going on with the building on Rogers
Place in Rolesville where we reside and
also at the corner where a Lowe’s Food
and Harris Teeter are building on U.S.
401?
Answer:
Robert did not say that all the pine
trees on the south side of Rogers Road
behind Eckerd’s have been stripped away.
It appears it may be called Rogers
Place. Anyway, right where the new
Granite Falls Boulevard meets Rogers
Road there is a new strip or flex
building with three bays. Rolesville
Planning Director Bryan Hicks said it
would house small retail stores and the
developer plans to build some townhouses
behind it.
There is a lot of activity
at the U.S. 401-Forestville Road
intersection – the biker bar is closed,
too – but nothing but signs about the
two grocery stores as yet. A call to
local Harris Teeter headquarters was not
returned.
Future restaurants
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There may be a Texas Roadhouse, a
Chili’s and a Red Robin at the
Shoppes at Caveness Farm. The
shopping center is on Capital
between the entrance to Wal-Mart and
Caveness Farm Apartments.
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A Steak and Shake is possible at
Wake Pointe Shopping Center
(Wal-Mart) next to O’Charley’s.
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The building Bennigan’s left after a
very short stay in Wake Forest is
still vacant, but another restaurant
chain is reportedly interested in
moving in.
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There will be a Wendy’s on Capital
Boulevard just south of Wake Forest
Crossing Shopping Center (Lowe’s
Foods).
The restaurant is being constructed
on land belonging to Southeastern
Baptist Theological Center along
Agora Drive, the name for the new
street that runs east from where
Wake Union Church Road meets Capital
Boulevard.
Ryan Hutchinson,
the senior vice president for business
administration at the seminary,
said, “SEBTS still owns the new tract,
but this particular parcel will
be taxable. SEBTS is doing a ground
lease on the Wendy’s site as well as a
yet-to-be- determined second
tenant to the south of Wendy’s.”
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There will be a Hooters, we hear,
but it will be somewhere in
Wakefield.
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Lone Star is constructing a new
building in the southwest corner of
N.C. 98 (Durham Road) and Retail
Drive.
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Plans for a Carolina Ale House have
been approved at the corner between
the N.C. 98 bypass, the extension of
Retail Drive into the North Park
office buildings and the ramp from
the bypass to Capital Boulevard.
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There may be a Japanese Steakhouse
coming as a second tenant in the new
building on Retail Drive.
New stores
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There may be a Steinmart at the
Shoppes at Caveness Farm, and some
of the other national stores looking
at Wake Forest are Kohls, J.C.
Penney, Marshall’s and T.J. Maxx.
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Despite the rumors and statements
about an Eckerd’s drug store and a
Food Lion at the corner of Jones
Dairy Road at the N.C. 98 bypass,
those do not appear to be
materializing. Planner Ann Ayers
said she does expect some type of
neighborhood shopping development at
the intersection of the bypass and
Heritage Lake Road, and she expects
to see the plans very soon.
Commercial projects
It has been a year since the
planning and town boards approved the
plans, but a three-story, 118-unit
apartment building for active seniors is
now under construction – grading and
ground work – on the east side of South
Main Street just south of the N.C. 98
bypass.
The project is now called
the Wake Forest Retirement Residence,
but that will probably change. Curry
Brandaw in Salem, Ore., is the developer
and has about 300 similar facilities
throughout the country, about 15 in
North Carolina including ones in
Charlotte, Greensboro, Wilmington and
Cary.
The apartments will not have
kitchens. The residents, who are
expected to be single people in their
80s who do not need assistance, will eat
meals in the communal dining room.
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Crews are clearing land on
the south side of Rogers Road behind the
BB&T Bank and The Factory for a
32,000-square-foot, two-story building
that will be Heritage Medical Park. Andy
Ammons said he sold the land two years
ago and the developer now is a group
called Vanguard, headed by George
Venters of Raleigh. One of the tenants
will be a specialized pediatric dentist.
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A new flex building is being
constructed on Retail Drive across from
Chick-Fil-A. One tenant is expected to
be a Radio Shack. Caribou Coffee, which
was named as a tenant at one time, has
apparently backed out.
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At the end of South Main,
between it and Capital Boulevard, the
former Weavexx tract will be transformed
in 2007 into Glenn Boyd’s Nissan
dealership. He also owns Crossroads Ford
in Cary and Wakefield Ford in Wake
Forest.
Housing projects approved for more water
Alexan at Ligon Mill will be
a 288-unit apartment complex south of
Caveness Farm Apartments, north of the
Wal-Mart store and east of the Shoppes
of Caveness Farm shopping center. The
increased water allocation for the
project was approved by the town board
in December. Once it has all the
approvals, construction may start in
2007. The developer is Trammell Crow
Residential. See the Nov. 29 and Dec. 20
issues of the Gazette for details.
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Holding Village will be a
1,200-home traditional neighborhood
development that includes shops and
services south of the N.C. 98 bypass,
east of South Main Street and the CSX
rail line, west of Heritage North and
north of Heritage Wake Forest. The town
board approved the increased water
allocation in October, and the proposed
change to the town’s zoning ordinance to
allow for a traditional neighborhood was
recommended by the planning board last
week and is on the town board’s agenda
for Jan. 16.
The developers plan to start
the first phase on the land nearest the
bypass in 2007. See the Oct. 18 issue of
the Gazette for details. |
