Updated June 24, 2020
Future projects–Technical Review Committee
The Technical Review Committee met on May 28, 2020 and reviewed the following:
*Sams Xpress Car Wash, a master plan submitted by Eagle Engineering for a car wash and gas station on 2.981 acres in Crenshaw Corners. The land is zoned neighborhood business.
*Legacy Heritage Apartments, construction drawings submitted by WithersRavenel for 305 multifamily units on a 24.35-acre parcel at the intersection of Dr. Calvin Jones Highway, Friendship Chapel Road and Heritage Lake Road. The land is zoned for residential multifamily.
*Heritage Corner, construction drawings submitted by Site Collaborative for a 25,400-square-foot commercial development on 4.88 acres at the intersection of Rogers Road and South Franklin Street. The parcel is zone neighborhood business.
Future Projects – Design Review Board
*The Design Review Board met on May 14, 2020 and considered the following projects:
Public Hearing on Case AR-19-37: Consideration of a request filed by Vance Construction Company for Major Architectural Design Review for the proposed Sweere Building, to be located at 2804 Crusher Run, being Wake County Tax PIN 1739-73-6636.
*Public Hearing on Case 20-01: Consideration of a request filed by NorthView Partners for Major Architectural Design Review for the proposed Meridian at Rogers Branch Apartments to be located at 0, 3700, 3712, & 3716 Rogers Branch Road, being Wake County Tax PINs 1749-68- 8558, 1749-78-1509, 1749-78-4712, and 1749-78-2560.
Commercial plans under review as of April 2020
*Eagle Stop will be a gas station at 11670 Northpark Drive.
*Eagle Stop will be a gas station at 8824 Ligon Mill Road.
*Super Deal Tire and Muffler offers auto services at 538 South White Street.
*1628 South Main Street will be office and retail.
*Heritage Corner Retail at the corner of South Franklin Street and Rogers Road will be shops and restaurants.
*Puryear storage yard on Unicon Drive will be an industrial use.
*Wake Preparatory Academy on Harris Road will be a school.
*Sweere properties at 2804 Crusher Run will be an industrial use.
*Janko at 9 912 Capital Boulevard is an auto services business.
*Merritt Industrial Park on Unicon Drive and Ligon Mill Road will have four large lots on 74 acres with as many as seven flex or light industrial buildings. It is slated to be in operation in the second quarter of 2021.
*Wake Forest Crossing Lot 7 at 12612 Capital Boulevard will be retail.
*1521 South Main Street at 1521 South Main Street will be a beauty salon.
*525 South White Street Warehouse is planned as the latest co-working facility owned by Raleigh’s Loading Dock. It is a former warehouse for the W.W. Holding Cotton Company and is currently owned by Bob and Elizabeth Johnson.
*Kiddie Academy at 945 Gateway Commons Circle will be a child care center.
*State Employees Credit Union Revisions at 1116 Jenkins Road is a financial institution.
*McDonald’s Renovation at 865 Durham Road is a restaurant.
*Endeavor Academy Phase II at 4879 One World Way is an expansion of the school.
*Sunbelt is a plan for an industrial building at 709 Finger Lakes Drive.
Commercial plans approved, not yet built
*The Tru Hotel on Wake Union Church Road and Hampton Way Drive has been annexed into town and is nearly ready for construction.
*Fifth Third Bank on South Main Street is under construction.
*Rogers Road Retail will be a Quick 5 oil change business. It has been approved and is under construction next to the Sam’s Express.
Residential plans under review in April 2020
*Radford Glen was turned down by the Wake Forest Planning Board in May 2020 but two weeks later a lawyer’s letter arrived just before the town commissioners met, asking that the matter be remanded back to the planning department because the developer plans substantive and material changes. The plan is on hold until the developer provides those changes. The current plan was for 172 single family lots.
*Kinsley on both sides of North Main Street, 203 acres with 401 single-family lots and 411 townhouse lots – 812 in all.
*Kitchin Farms Phase 2B on Burlington Mills and Ligon Mill roads for 123 single-family lots. The master plan has been approved.
*Austin Creek Phases 6 & 7 on Wait Avenue are for 67 single-family lots in the subdivision.
*Ledge Rock Green would be a 22-lot single-family home subdivision on NC 98.
*Averette Subdivision on Averette Road will have 687 single-family lots and 294 townhouses, 981 in all. This has been approved by the Wake Forest Town Board.
*Meridian Rogers Branch Apartments on Rogers Branch Road is planned for 264 units. The Wake Forest Town Board has approved this project.
*Greenway Village at Heritage on South Franklin Street has been approved for 188 apartments.
*Siena Drive Phase 1 & 2 Revisions is for a townhouse development with 96 units.
*Cottages at Cardinal Hills at 850 Wait Avenue is for 30 single-family lots. At the public hearing on June 3, the matter was tabled until the July meeting so that the planning board members could read and hear the comments received.
*Legacy Heritage, an apartment complex of 307 units at the N.C. 98 Bypass, Heritage Lake Road and Friendship Chapel Road, has been approved by the town board.
*Holding Village South Lake Phase 4 along South Franklin Street is for 25 single-family lots.
*Crenshaw Trace will be a four-story apartment building on Durham Road with 68 units for people 55 and older who will not have to pay more than 30 percent of their income for rent.
*Everly amendment for the subdivision on Stephen Taylor Road to increase the plan to 173 lots.
*Brewer Circle subdivision calls for nine lots.
*Devon Square on Capital Boulevard will have 127 single-family lots at the rear of the lot and 156 townhouse lots facing the highway.
*Wait Avenue Condos will be in the multi-story building at the northwest corner of Wait and Franklin Street, and the plan recently submitted eliminates the nonresidential part and proposes to build only 56 multifamily units.
*Holding Village North Lake Phases 5-8 along South Franklin Street are planned for 208 single-family lots and 156 townhouse lots. The developer will also be constructing the new section of South Franklin Street which will meet the N.C. 98 Bypass.
There is still more development planned and possible in Holding Village. Currin said the planning department has also received construction drawings for the Holding Village apartments. In addition, “There is also a portion of a parcel north of Friendship Baptist Church, adjacent to the Bypass, and a smaller tract off S. Franklin St. that are part of Holding Village and could be developed.”
*Holding Village Apartments on Friendship Chapel Road plans 320 units.
*Forest Pines Retirement Community on Royall Cotton Road is a 130-unit apartment complex.
*Tryon Phases 10 & 11 on Copper Beech Lane plans for 35 single-family lots.
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