Updated January 22, 2020
Northern Wake Senior Center will open to its members and the public on Feb. 3, 2020. We are assured everyone will be thrilled by the new space and all the improvements.
The reconstruction is adding 9,000 square feet plus renovations throughout the original center on East Holding Avenue. There will be a new entrance to the building, an expanded parking lot and a new parking lot entrance on the extension of Brooks Street which has finally connected Elm Avenue to East Holding. Among the new features will be an addition to the exercise room, a new roof and a new multipurpose room.
Focus Design Builders won the $3.9 million contract – it is being paid through the bonds approved in 2014 – and the target date for completion was May 1, 2019. Focus Design won the contract because it promised to complete the work within 269 days – nine months – when the other bidders’ numbers were 300 to 365 days.
Nine months late, but it will be open.
Future projects–Technical Review Committee
Future Projects – Design Review Board
The Design Review Board met on Jan. 10 and considered a request by McGahey Design Inc. for a major architectural design review for a proposed building for Moffat Pipe Inc. at 0 Burlington Mills Road.
Streets, Roads, Greenways and Transportation
*Preliminary work by the contractor, Fred Smith Company, began March 5 on the Stadium Drive Complete Street project. The town board approved the $6,789,876 contract with the Fred Smith Company in December. Utilities have been moved. The project will be complete early in 2020..
The project includes resurfacing North Avenue. There is a roundabout at the intersection of Stadium, North Avenue and Wingate Street. A center turn lane has been added to Stadium along with turn lanes at intersections and driveways and bump-outs for buses. From Glencoe Drive to the Richland Creek bridge there is a 10-foot multi-use path on the south and a 5-foot sidewalk on the north. From the bridge to Wingate Street there are sidewalks on both sides.
Ligon Mill Road Operational Improvements There will be some action later this year. Jonathan Jacobs, the town’s transportation engineer, said in an email on Sept. 12, “This project is going to be re-bid in December. We are ready to bid now, but with the winter months coming, it is better to bid at the end/first of the year with a late winter/early spring start date. We are targeting March 1 for a notice to proceed.”
The project for the section of Ligon Mill Road west from South Main Street to a new section built just past the Walmart driveway will provide a center turn lane and turn lanes for driveways and entrances. Acquiring the right-of-way from several owners has been one reason the project has stalled at times. It also went out for bid once and there were no bidders.
Commercial plans under review as of November 2019
*Wegmans grocery store on Forbes Road and the N.C. 98 Bypass.
*Wheat Field Shopping Center at 1009 Forestville Road will be retail.
*Eagle Stop will be a gas station at 11670 Northpark Drive.
*Eagle Stop will be a gas station at 8824 Ligon Mill Road.
*Forbes Property Infrastructure Plans on Forbes Road for the planned unit development on both sides of NC 98 Bypass on land that was the Forbes family farm.
*City of Raleigh Water Quality Lab at 10700 Star Road will be an office and lab.
*Rookie’s Restaurant is planned at 11200 Capital Boulevard.
*Super Deal Tire and Muffler offers auto services at 538 South White Street.
*Finger Lakes Drive Lot 3 is a plan for a light industrial building. Finger Lakes Drive runs east from Unicon Drive and the lot is serves abuts Burlington Mills Road.
*1628 South Main Street will be office and retail.
*Heritage Corner Retail at the corner of South Franklin Street and Rogers Road will be shops and restaurants.
*Puryear storage yard on Unicon Drive will be an industrial use.
*Wake Preparatory Academy on Harris Road will be a school.
*Sweere properties at 2804 Crusher Run will be an industrial use.
Residential plans under review in November 2019
*Kinsley on both sides of North Main Street and along Stephen Taylor Road in Franklin County, 203 acres in all with a new number of dwelling units – 401 single-family lots and 411 townhouse lots – 812 in all. This may not reach the planning board until mid-2020.
*Kitchin Farms Phase 2 on Burlington Mills and Ligon Mill roads for 123 single-family lots. The master plan has been approved.
*Austin Creek Phases 6 & 7 on Wait Avenue are for 67 single-family lots.
*Ledge Rock Green would be a 22-lot single-family home subdivision on NC 98.
*Averette Subdivision on Averette Road would have 687 single-family lots and 294 townhouses, 981 in all. This could be heard by the Wake Forest Planning Board in February or March.
*Meridian Rogers Branch Apartments on Rogers Branch Road is planned for 264 units. The Wake Forest Town Board has approved this project.
*Greenway Village at Heritage on South Franklin Street has been approved for 108 apartments.
*Siena Drive Phase 1 & 2 Revisions is for a townhouse development with 96 units.
*Cottages at Cardinal Hills at 850 Wait Avenue is for 30 single-family lots.
*Legacy Heritage, an apartment complex of 307 units at the N.C. 98 Bypass, Heritage Lake Road and Friendship Chapel Road, has been approved by the town board.
*Holding Village South Lake Phase 4 along South Franklin Street is for 25 single-family lots.
*Crenshaw Trace will be a four-story apartment building with 68 units for people 55 and older who will not have to pay more than 30 percent of their income for rent.
*Everly amendment for the subdivision on Stephen Taylor Road to increase the plan to 173 lots.
*Brewer Circle subdivision calls for nine lots.
*Stonegate at St. Andrews is asking for 30 single-family lots of Rainy Lake Street.
*Devon Square on Capital Boulevard will have 127 single-family lots at the rear of the lot and 156 townhouse lots facing the highway.
*Willows Phase 3 on Traditions Grande Boulevard calls for 16 townhouses.
*Wait Avenue Condos calls for 56 units in a multi-story building.
*Holding Village North Lake Phases 5-8 along South Franklin Street is planned for 208 single-family lots and 156 townhouse lots. The developer will also be constructing the new section of Franklin which will meet the N.C. 98 Bypass.
*Radford Glen is planned for the south side of Wait Avenue with 172 single-family lots.
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