Update: During March the staff in the Wake Forest Planning Department were reviewing seven commercial requests and 10 plans or requests for residential housing, including the first neighborhood in Holding Village and the proposed Tryon subdivision.
The request for a special use permit to build a Sam’s Club has also been reviewed by the Technical Review Committee. Sam’s East Inc. wants permission for a 134,550-square-foot building on 12.95 acres on Caveness Farms Avenue. The request may require substantial street/traffic improvements.
That first Holding Farm neighborhood would be called South Lake at Holding Village on South Franklin Street and is for 374 townhouses and single-family lots in the traditional neighborhood development. The master plan
Tryon subdivision is planned for 287 single-family home lots and 126 townhouses on Copper Beech Lane south of Oak Grove Church Road. Priest, Craven and Associates will be applying for GR10 (CD) zoning for the 131.49 acres (now apparently in four separate parcels) where an unnamed developer proposes to locate 287 single-family lots and 126 townhouses on what appears to be land fairly well cut up with small streams. The project was reviewed by the Wake Forest Planning Department’s Technical Review Committee on Feb. 20.
The third large project is the first phase of Capital Creek Apartments, calling for 214 apartments out of a total 315. The complex would be built at in the southeastern quadrant of the Rogers Road and Heritage Branch Road intersection. The master plan was approved in 2012.
Other residential plans under review are for approved or existing subdivisions. Those are a 19-lot addition in Bowling Green, 67 lots in Regency at Heritage on Forestville Road, 62 lots in Reynolds Mill, 16 lots in St. Ives, 71 lots in Stonegate at St. Andrews, and 62 lots in Stone Mill Falls on Rogers Road.
The other commercial plans are for the Discovery Point Day Care on Heritage Links Drive, the Wakefield United Methodist Church on Star Road, the expansion of the Wake Forest Baptist Church, the Southeastern Baptist Seminary master plan for the campus, a U-Haul on Capital Boulevard with self-storage and a warehouse, and an office addition to the building housing the Wake Forest Health Club on South Main Street.
In addition
**The Paschal subdivision on Durham Road, 27 single-family lots on 14.37 acres, was withdrawn from consideration in late March 2014 and the owners plan to sell the property to Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary.
**Expect to see infrastructure construction and lot sales in Holding Village later this year. Wheelock Street Capital, which is developing the first phase of Traditions, has a multi-year contract to build the residential portion of Holding Village. It is the town’s only traditional neighborhood development, approved in 2007 but without any activity since then.
The plan calls for 305 townhouses, duplexes and live/work units along with 583 multi-family units and 462 single-family homes. In addition, there was 25,000 square feet planned for civic, church and club activities, 48,000 square feet of retail activity, and 40,000 square feet for business and office use. The 256 acres lie south of the Dr. Calvin Jones Highway (N.C. 98 Bypass), east of the CSX rail line, north of Rogers Road and west of parts of Heritage.
The 254 acres were part of the 900-acre Holding Dairy Farm owned by W.W. Holding Jr. and passed on to his sons, Walter and William. Some of the land is now part of Heritage; some is difficult to develop because of rugged topography and streams; and the Holding Village portion has been fallow except for haying for over 20 years.
**A multi-use development currently called Hilltop Development is being planned for 160 acres that lie south of N.C. 98 (Durham Road) and east of Capital Boulevard (U.S. 1) with a connection possible on an extended Galaxy Drive. The land belongs to Druly LP, which is Jodi Totten and her sons, descendants of the Crenshaw family which once raised acres of cotton on the fields.
**Villagio on Star Road was approved for 248 units on 21 acres along Star Road in 2012 but there has been no further action.
**There are still approved plans for three projects. Olde Chestnut Townes on West Chestnut Street was approved in 2008 for 33 townhouse units on 4.01 acres. Bark Development LLC has not begun any construction.
Sedgefield Park North was approved in 2005 for 63 single-family homes on 30.51 acres along North White Street. Millridge Investments has not begun construction.
Traditions West – Traditions Retirement Community is planned by the Ammons family for 376 acres west of the reservoir along Gillcrest Farm Road. The plans approved in 2008 and 2009 called for 439 single-family homes, 193 senior single-family homes, 63 senior townhouses and 90 apartments. There has been no construction, but the Wake Forest commissioners approved a one-year extension for the townhouses and apartment units in August of 2012.
