Updated July 29, 2020
Future projects–Technical Review Committee
The Technical Review Committee met on June 25, 2020 and reviewed these projects:
*A master plan submitted by the Nau Company for 16 townhouses in three buildings on a 21.05-acre parcel to be called Forest on Franklin Townhomes. The parcels are zoned urban mixed use.
*Construction drawings were submitted by McAdams for the St. Catherine of Siena’s parsonage to be bjilt on the existing 36.73-acre church site at 600 West Holding Avenue.
Future Projects – Design Review Board
The Design Review Board met on June 11, 2020 and considered the following projects:
*A public hearing for consideration of Case AR-19-20-01 Amendment, a request filed by 161 Architecture for an amendment to the major architectural design review for the proposed TRU Hotel at Hampton Way and Wake Union Church Road.
*A public hearing for Case AR-20-10, being a request filed by Ross Deckard Architects for review of the proposed Crenshaw Trace, a multi-family development on Durham Road.
*A public hearing for Case AR -20-11, which is a request filed by Plus Architecture for review of the proposed commercial building at 525 South White Street, the future Loading Dock.
*A public hearing for Case AR-20-15, a request filed by Christopher Patrick Architect for review of a proposed commercial building at the deadend of Forestville Road and Franklin Street, planned as a small shopping center, Heritage Corner Retail.
Commercial plans under review as of May 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.
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 May 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.
*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.
*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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