The Body Shop, which is leaving town and moving its headquarters to New York City, will have a great sale of its products the last weekend of the month. The firm is donating lots ot bath, body, fragrance, skin care, accessories and men’s products to the Body Shop Foundation, which will sell them at “silly prices (usually 75 percent off the retail price).”
The sale will be at Capital Warehouse 2727-101 Capital Boulevard in Raleigh. On Thursday, July 30, the sale hours are 2 to 7 p.m. with the last entry at 6:30 p.m.; on Friday, July 31, the hours are 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with the last entry at 1 p.m.; and Saturday the hours are 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. with last entry at 1 p.m. and then 2 to 4:30 p.m. with last entry at 4 p.m.
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Commissioner Jim Thompson, who is the town board liaison to the Historic Preservation Commission, said Tuesday night that yes, there is a leak in the roof covering the historic Forestville Baptist Church at 1350 South Main Street. There is small blue tarp on part of the northside roof. The entire roof needs to be replaced and the congregation is trying to raise money to do so. Interested people may want to drop a check in the mail.
The church was built in 1860, the third church building for Baptists in northern Wake County. The first was New Light Baptist Church built in the 1770s. The second was Wake Union Church built on land donated by nearby landowner Col. Ransom Sutherland in 1779. Four congregations – Baptist, Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian – each used the building one Sunday a month.
Forestville Baptist is rare in that the original Greek Revival exterior and interior have, for the most part, been maintained. As a local historical landmark it falls under the care of the HPC.
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Senior Planner Michelle Michael is the staff liaison for the HPC has been informed her application for a Stedman Incentive Grant of $10,000 for the rehabilitation of the Ailey Young House on North White Street has been approved and will be awarded during a conference in September.
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The Wake Forest Planning Department’s Technical Review Committee met on June 18 and reviewed three plans:
*A conditional district rezoning and site master plan for a general commercial use on five properties, 2.95 acres, along South Main and Mangum Avenue between the site where the new Valvoline building is going up and Carter Street. Lat Purser & Associates are asking for conditional use highway business zoning.
*A site plan for Legacy Wake Forest, a multi-family apartment project on 26.68 acres off Durham Road and Debarmore Street. The applicant is GCI Residential LLC and the existing zoning is RMX (FL-WMA).
*BNK, the applicant, is asking for an amendment to the rezoning and master plan for the Lakestone subdivision on the north side of Wait Avenue. The request is to include additional single-family lots in an area that was thought to be buffered.
