Work has begun on the Retreat at Renaissance, the 80-unit townhouse project proposed by Craig Briner and East Elm Partners and approved in the summer of 2013. Five of the townhouses will front on Renaissance Plaza near Over the Falls Deli and will be live/work units. Clearing is nearly complete for the short section of Brooks Street to finally link the street all the way from Roosevelt Avenue to East Holding Avenue.
The lack of that short section has been an irritant for years. Back in 1990 Bbel was trying to get town approval for a 60-bed nursing home where Brooks now meets East Holding. Developers had been nibbling away at the northern edge of the Holding farm property then owned by Holding Farms Development Corporation. After a tremendous wrangle about who and when should pay for the street extension, Bbel tired and built the nursing home on Wait Avenue.
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The Tuesday, Oct. 6, meeting of the Wake Forest Planning Board has been cancelled for lack of business. The Wake Forest Board of Commissioners will hold its regular monthly work session that afternoon at 5:30 p.m. in the second-floor meeting room.
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Publix Super Markets Charities out of Lakeland, Florida, will donate $4 million to Habitat for Humanity affiliates in the southeast to build 40 new houses in 2016 and increase support to the affiliates it currently funds. Unfortunately for the very active Wake County Habitat the only funding in North Carolina will go to the Charlotte Habitat. Perhaps once there are two Publix stores in Wake – Cary and Wake Forest – the funding will be extended here.
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Despite the rain, drizzle and fog the area has experienced for several days, the weekly update from the state Division of Water Resources shows Wake County and its surrounding counties are still in a moderate drought. The severe drought, however, has worsened in the Charlotte area and extending westward along the South Carolina boundary. The Murphy are and a few coastal counties are the only parts of the state not having some degree of dryness and/or drought.
Go to http://www.ncwater.org/Drought_Monitoring to see for yourself.
