The site construction plans for Capital Chevrolet, formerly Bobby Murray Chevrolet, to build a showroom and garage on land now occupied by a driving range at 9820 Capital Boulevard were among those reviewed Jan. 19 by the Wake Forest Technical Review Committee.
Several readers have asked the Gazette about plans for the dealership since it was approved in June of 2015 and a subsequent change in ownership. The town board split three to two to approve the annexation and master plan. The dealership will abut the Shearon Farms subdivision, and a sizable number of those residents objected to some of the road connections in 2015 and won several concessions from the applicant. The road situation is complicated by the state Department of Transportation’s nearly complete plans to make Capital Boulevard a limited access freeway with access roads on both sides. (See the June 3 and June 17, 2015 issues of the Gazette in the archives for more of the discussion at the planning and town board levels.)
The committee also reviewed a site construction plan for a Food Lion as the anchor for the recently-approved Crenshaw Corners commercial subdivision at the intersection of Durham Road (Business N.C. 98) and the N.C.98 Bypass (Dr. Calvin Jones Highway.
Suntrust plans to build in the Harris Crossing shopping center at 13620 Capital Boulevard, and the committee reviewed the site construction plan.
Also, a site construction plan was reviewed for Tidal Wave Auto Spa on 1.5 acres at 1030 Forestville Road, which is part of the Heritage Village shopping center anchored by Publix.
Finally, the board also reviewed a master plan for a one-story office building, the Forestville Development Building, at 1704 South Main Street. Owner Larry Ray asked for the 0.83 acre to be rezoned to conditional use neighborhood business a few years back, and said at that time that he wanted to build a dental office on the land.
There is an existing house on the land, and it has a history because it was once a small store, gas station (that is why it is so close to the road) and bar called Forestville Heights. It was just outside of Wake Forest by a mile and therefore became one of the bars situated on roads around town, which banned alcohol sales within a mile of the town limits.
(Editor’s note: I believe the owner of Forestville Heights was the person who brought town electricity and water to Forestville back in the 1940s when the village was a livelier place. He paid for the poles and wires, the water line to his business, then recouped much of that cost as others tapped into the wires and water line. I cannot recall his name or the exact dates. I know they are in my notes somewhere but there is not enough time this week to search for them. I’ll try to find them for next week.)
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Wake Forest needs to survey people with “What do you WANT to come to town?” and then go seek out those places. I cannot imagine people are clamoring for yet another Food Lion with two near here and a third only a few minutes up the road in Franklin Co. Nothing against Food Lion, but enough already.