Based on the November 2024 Monthly
Development Report, WF Planning
Updated December 17, 2024
The
town keeps a running tally of approved projects with counts of those completed.
The best inspections current estimate is that between seven and eight people
move to town each day, moving into newly-built houses, townhouses or apartments
and a few existing houses that were for sale.
Projects under review
1. 418 Jones Dairy Road SP-23-11 is a request by David
Williams Sr. to rezone 5.61 acres on the south side of Jones Dairy Road from RH
rural holding and LI light industrial to NB-CD conditional neighborhood
business to allow construction of two 24,502 square foot buildings side by
side, one restaurant and one an office. The plans call for space for a public
art statue and seven handicapped parking spaces. The Town Board voted
unanimously to approve at their October 15, 2024 meeting.
2. Hawthorne Wake Forest Phase 2 RZ-21-09 SP-21-41 is
a request for 48 (or 56 depending on the medium (electronic or written) units
on Star Road next to the approved Hawthorn Wake Forest Star Road which will
have 248 apartments on 29 acres. The current request will be on 6 acres, a
triangle with a tail that wraps around the City of Raleigh Water office.
3. Wake Union Church Road SP-22-02 was approved by the Wake Forest Town Board in
July of 2022. The plan submitted by Kimley-Horn is for 193,000
square feet of commercial space, 300 apartments and 89 townhouses along with
streets and parking areas which cover almost all of the 64 acres. There is no
indication where the contamination remediation is underway. Construction has
not begun.
This plan is on the
site of the former Parker-Hannifin (Schrader) site with a federal brownfield
designation because of the trichloroethene (TCE) and other chemical and
petroleum contamination in the groundwater, a contamination which has spread.
Parker-Hannifin has committed to remedying the problem.
4. Whataburger Drive-Thru on the NC 98 Bypass,
part of the Wegman’s project that will also extend Ligon Mill Road toward the
intersecting Durham Road. Formerly it was the Morris Subdivision, RZ-22-02, which was approved by the Wake Forest Town Board in
November of 2022. It will be a 76-lot subdivision of single-family homes on
both sides of North Main Street just south of the several parcels planned for
the Kinsley subdivision.
5. Burlington Mills Commercial RZ-23-12 will be a 23,500 sq.
ft. two-story building.
6. 306 S. Allen Road RZ-23-10 was approved by the Wake Forest Town Board on June 18, 2024 by a 4-0 vote
with Commissioner Keith Shackleford recused because of a possible conflict of
interest. The plan is to convert the old rest home into 32 apartments for people
62 and older.
This number in the list has been held by Marshall Station RZ-21-10 on Forestville
Road and Burlington Mills Road at Walkers Crossroads, and the request is to
build 186 townhouse lots on 44 acres. The engineer is Priest, Craven &
Associates, their client is DR Horton-Terramor and the requested rezoning is
conditional use general residential 10. The owner is the Marshall Family Trust.
7. Chick-Fil-A Off-Site Roadway Improvements is a Town of Wake
Forest infrastructure project.
8.
Foundation Drive Apartments SP-21-02 is at least the second proposal to build on the
drive that also leads to Heritage High School.
9. Sanford Creek Intercept Sewer is Infrastructure.
10. Capcom Lot 5 is an
office or commercial building with 22,510 square feet on Capcom Avenue.
11. Carolina Chimney is a request for
a 1,925 square-foot building on North White Street.
12. Wait Avenue Medical
Office is a request for a building containing
offices, commercial uses and a restaurant near where Wait joins the NC 98
Bypass.
13. Friendship Chapel
Road Spring Branch Crossing, an infrastructure project. Friendship Chapel Road, which began as the
short dirt road to the Raleigh & Gaston Railroad depot in Forestville in 1840,
will soon connect South Main Street with Heritage Lake Road and Jones Dairy
Road once the subdivision, the Reserve at Dunn Creek, is complete in a couple
years. It will not be accessible, though, for CSX Railroad plans to permanently
close the crossing near South Main Street. The decision about when to close the
crossing depends on the study for a rebuilt railroad section from Raleigh to
Wake Forest. This bridge over Spring Branch is a necessity for the future
Reserve at Dunn Creek.
14. Darch Property Rezoning is a request to rezone the property from Wake County
Residential-30 to Rural Holding District (RD).
15. Franklin Academy Vocation Building replaces Ligon Park on Ligon Mill Road
which was a request for 10 single-family lots. The academy is on Chalk Road,
and the new building would have 3,535 square feet.
16. Franklin Street Townhomes
Rezoning is apparently for an
outdoor recreation facility. The townhouses are complete.
17.
Star Road Tech Center is
being planned for five buildings providing 119,040 square feet in flex use,
20,150 in retail use and 25,600 in office use. Although both the Wake Forest
Planning Department and the Wake Forest Planning Board recommended it be
denied, the Wake Forest Town Board voted 3 to 1 to approve it — Commissioners
Adam Wright, Nick Sliwinski and Faith Cross voted for it and Commissioner Ben
Clapsaddle voted against it — during the May 21, 2024 meeting.
18. Capital Powersports Service addition will be a 10,000
addition to the business on Star Road.
19. Hyundai Automotive Dealership requested by Johnson
Automotive will replace the Truck Stop at the corner of Capital Boulevard and
Burlington Mills Road. It was approved by the Wake Forest Town Board during
their October 15, 2024 meeting.
20.
Food Lion RZ-93-9-2 wants to build a 6,000-square-foot
building for a restaurant, a 12,640-square-foot building for a daycare and a
35,926-square-foot building for a grocery store on 1.93 acres where the NC 98
Bypass meets Jones Dairy Road. The
company has owned the land since 2012 when it planned to put a new concept
grocery store, Bloom, there. Construction was underway when it was halted.
21.
Rosedale Phase 7B on Averette
Road is a plan for 79 townhouses.
22. Harris Tract
Rezoning on Harris Road
simply says it will be residential and commercial and replaces Powerhouse Row
Phase 2. It has been a point of contention between the developer and a group
led by Angela DiPaolo which wants lower buildings and a reserved natural area
at the back of the property.
23. Stadium Drive Mixed Use RZ-23-02 was approved by the Wake Forest Town Board three
to two on Nov. 22, 2023. It is located on the only undeveloped area on that
street – the wooded triangle created when Stadium Drive was curved southward to
connect to Jenkins Road. The developers plan 19,300 square feet of commercial
use, 307 multifamily (apartments) units and 20,000 square feet of medical use.
24. Kinsley Subdivision Phase 10-20B has replaced the Darch
Property/Rogers Road Townhouses which has been withdrawn from any
consideration. The new request for Kinsley is for 135 single-family lots and 88
townhouse lots on the north side of Wake Forest along North Main Street.
25. Amavi was approved by the
Wake Forest Town Board on June 20, 2023. It is
the name for 211 multifamily units that are differently-sized small houses with
one, two or three bedrooms in the southeast corner where Jenkins Road meets
Capital Boulevard.
The
Holding family land now has three houses and a long field of kudzu leading down
to Horse Creek, which is a protected watershed for Falls Lake. The plan calls
for a water-retention pond adjacent to the floodplain for the creek. The land
fronting on Capital Boulevard with its two houses would be sold for commercial
use. McAdams of Durham is the engineer and NCRT SFR Investments is the
developer.
26. Grove 98 Northeast on the NC 98 Bypass is
a plan for 112 dwelling units as part of the Wegmans development.
27. Star Mart is a request by the new owner of the
gas/convenience store to a 2,000-square-foot restaurant on the south side of
the existing store on South Main Street.
28. Burlington Mills Road Mixed Use was approved by the
Wake Forest Town Board on June 20, 2023. It is
a plan for 144 apartments and 5,300 square feet of commercial on 9.55 acres in
the northwest corner at the Burlington Mills Road/Ligon Mill intersection. The
land is owned by the heirs of Eunice Rogers. The Site Group is the engineering
firm and the request was to rezone the land to mixed use residential and
neighborhood business.
29. Burlington Mills Multifamily was approved by the Wake Forest Town Board on
June 20, 2023. The plans are for
346 apartments in three- and four-floor apartment buildings on the south side
of Burlington Mills near its intersection with Capital Boulevard. The apartment
buildings will be behind (east of) the commercial buildings that flank the
highway south of the intersection. The zoning requested is for conditional use
mixed residential and conditional use highway business, which will be to the
east of the apartments. Bateman Civil Survey Company is the engineer.
30. Elm Avenue Townhouses, three
townhouses on Elm Avenue is the new listing. It was Alpaca, a 3,400-square-foot restaurant on Mangum Avenue, which is a
short street east of South Main Street.
31. Marshall Sanitary Sewer Outfall at Linslade Way/Bankwell Street.
32. Wheatfield Phase II on Forestville Road is a request to build
27,415 square feet of an addition to the existing Wheatfield
shopping/restaurant center on Forestville Road.
33. Heritage Lake Road Improvements is an infrastructure
project.
34. 98 Bypass U-Turns is an infrastructure project.
35. Dunn Creek Culvert Replacement is an infrastructure project by the Town
of Wake Forest.
36. Reserve at Dunn Creek Amenity Center will be a 4,230-square-foot building.
37. Wake Union Phase 3 Roadway Improvements at US-1 (Capital Boulevard and Wake
Union Church Road.
38. Wake Forest Reservoir Dam Improvements is a town infrastructure project.
39. Moffat Pipe Expansion on Finger Lakes Drive is a commercial addition to an existing building.
40. Via Fortuna Flex Development on Via Fortuna is a 39,320 square foot
project.
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