Brief Bits

The Pate Realty Group headed by Brian Pate is moving from its office of several years at 1743 South Main Street to the heart of downtown Wake Forest. Tomorrow, June 1, the real estate business will be on the second floor at 225 South White Street, upstairs over For Old Time’s Sake Antiques run by Phil and Laura Cashwell.

The office will be open for tours and to meet Pate and his team during this week’s Friday Night on White.

Pate, a town commissioner, will no longer be able to keep his fellow board members abreast of the traffic situation on South Main at the Rogers Road intersection, but he might begin to comment on the foot traffic on the downtown as well as the parking.

The building at 225 South White was once Pope’s variety store and had several owners until Dino Radosta bought it in 2008 and renovated and updated it. He sold it to a Raleigh man two years ago.

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Two important Wake Forest buildings and services will close this fall though exact dates are still hazy. The Town of Wake Forest plans to expand the Northern Wake Senior Center, which it owns, and Wake County plans to almost double the size of the Wake Forest Community Library.

Miranda Strider-Allen with Resources for Seniors says the senior center programs and staff will probably be moving before September, but she does not have a date yet. Although Meals on Wheels still does not have a site for its services, Allen is using space in town-owned buildings, three assisted living homes, the American Legion and other sites for the programs, services and staff.

Valerie Pierce, the library manager, says the library will close and its staff will be assigned to other county libraries while the library building is expanded. The date of closing is still not exact but it will be later this summer or into early fall.

The library patrons can use the new Northeast Regional Library on Green Elm Lane in Wakefield.