Updated March 23, 2022)
Plans under review at the Wake Forest Planning Department
The February issue of the Monthly Report is listed below.
*White Street Townhomes is a plan for 82 multifamily units and 30 townhouse lots on two lots owned by David Smoot at the intersection of South White Street and East Holding Avenue. This is a major change from the original plan for 79 townhouse lots.
*Wake Union Church Road is the name for this proposed project but it is 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 remedy the problem.
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 50 acres. There is no indication where the contamination remediation is underway.
*Hawthorne Wake Forest Phase 2 will be an apartment building(s) with 48 units on the east side of Star Road.
*Morris Subdivision is new, 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. The engineering firm is FLM Engineering and the developer is Blue Heel Development. They are requesting a zoning change from RD Rural District and GR3 to conditional GR10. They propose a density of 3.5 homes per acre with a minimum size of 4,800 square feet. The Uniform Development Ordinance require 10 percent or 2.19 acres of open space; the request would provide 20.3 percent or 4.45 acres. The UDO requires 2.5 percent of park space or 0.55 acres; the developer would provide 4.44 percent of park space or 0.96 acres.
*Averette Road Assemblage is the new name for Rosedale Subdivision (formerly Averette Road Subdivision) Phase 2, a plan for 66 single-family lots. It is associated with Tryon subdivision. Former Pearce family land, Priest Craven & Associates is the engineer for this.
*Mason Oaks Parcel 3 is a plan to build 21 townhouses along Edgemoore Trail.
*Mavis Tire is planned as a vehicle service station on Crenshaw Corners Drive.
*Marshall Station is a request to build 186 townhouses on 44 acres in the northeast corner of the intersection of Forestville and Burlington Mills Road. The designer is Priest, Craven & Associates and their client is DR Horton – Terramor, a developer. They are requesting GR10 zoning with 2.5 percent or 1.052 acres in park space and 28.6 percent or 11.959 acres in open space. There are several small houses along Forestville Road that would be razed for this development.
*Joyner Property on Capital Boulevard has been a plan for 249 single-family lots and 137 townhouse lots on the former Wake Forest Country Club site, but the engineers at McAdams Engineering are revising the plan to include commercial lots along Capital Boulevard and an unknown amount of single-family and townhouse lots. The new plan is expected to be unveiled or at least explained at the second neighborhood meeting on March 30 at 6 p.m.
*Forest on Franklin will be 12 townhouse lots on North Franklin Street which have been approved by the town board.
*Foundation Drive Apartments is at least the second proposal to build on the drive that also leads to Heritage High School. The page for this in the town’s interactive development map is not available, but it is planned for 48 units.
*Austin Creek Phases 6 & 7 is a plan for 67 single-family lots.
*Patronies Pizza will be a 5,838-square-foot restaurant on Crenshaw Corners Drive.
*The Hamlet at Quail Crossing on Wait Avenue just to the east of Radford Glen is planned for 254 rental multi-family units by Middleburg Communities and their engineering firm, the McAdams Company. The rezoning to multi-family was approved by the town board on Sept. 21, 2021. This project will take the place of the Wellington Mobile Home Park, where all the families have left.
*Carolina Chimney will be in a 1,925-square-foot building on North White Street.
*Kinsley Phases 19-29 The entire project on both sides of North Main Street was approved by the Wake Forest Town Board on Feb. 2, 2021. This portion of the project will build 298 single-family lots. Sewer and water lines are being installed.
*Grove 98 North is a plan for 354 multi-family units on the north side of the N.C. 98 Bypass with a commercial section. It is part of the Wegmans large development and includes an extension of Ligon Mill Road. It has been approved by the town board.
*Traditions Townhomes will be 37 townhouse lots on Traditions Grande Boulevard that have been approved by the town board.
*Hawthorne at Traditions will be 272 apartments on Gilcrest Farm Road. It has been approved by the town board.
*Traditions Grande Care Facility on Gilcrest Farm Road between Del Webb at Traditions and Hawthorne at Traditions will be a residential care facility with 119 beds.
*Forestville Road Townhomes is a plan for 61 townhouse lots.
*Ligon Park is a plan for 10 single-family homes.
*Reserve of Wake Forest is a plan for a residential care facility with 157 units on both the NC 98 Bypass and South Main Street, wrapping around two sides of the Lidl grocery site. It has been misidentified as being on North Main Street.
*White Street Village at 150 North White Street will tear down an existing building and tear up a large parking lot behind CVS to create 61 two-over-two condominium units. Planning Director Courtney Tanner said, “They look like townhomes, but are condos. 1st two floors are one owner and the 2nd two floors are a different owner.” The building and the parking lot were built by John Lyon in 1975 for his new grocery store, Lyon’s, which for a while featured two lions in a cage outside the door.
*Sonny’s Car Wash will be a 4,164-square-foot building on Forestville Road.
Approved residential projects not under construction
*Hawthorne at Traditions is on Gilcrest Farm Road and Royal Mill Avenue. It will have 272 units in two four-story buildings. Its subdivision and master plans were approved by the town board in April.
*Thales Academy on Wait Avenue (N.C. 98) at the intersection of Averette Road has been approved by the Wake Forest Town Board. The school for elementary and secondary students will have 37,151 square feet.
*Forest on Franklin is planned for 12 townhouses facing Franklin Street on the east side of the street. The Wake Forest Board of Commissioners approved the plan on April 20. The master plan was submitted by The Nau Company for 2.105 acres zoned urban mixed use.
*Radford Glen is on the south side of Wait Avenue and will have 165 single-family lots. It is one of two properties sold recently by former mayor George Mackie Jr. The second is the former Wellington Mobile Home Park, now rezoned as Quail Crossing and to be named The Hamlet.
*Grove 98 North is part of the larger Wegmans development that includes the new grocery store. It will have 354 units of multifamily housing on the north side of the N.C. 98 Bypass and some commercial. It will include an extension of Ligon Mill Road.
*Traditions Townhomes on Traditions Grande Boulevard is planned for 37 townhouses. It was approved by the Wake Forest Planning Board and then by the Wake Forest Town Board on May 18, 2021.
*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.
*Rosedale/Averette subdivision will have 890 homes on both sides of Averette Road. It is an extension of the Tryon subdivision.
*Kinsley on both sides of North Main Street, 203 acres with 274 single-family lots and 450 townhouse lots – 724 in all – was approved by the Wake Forest commissioners on Feb. 2, 2021. This is a somewhat smaller version of the subdivision than was originally proposed, but the amount of affordable townhouses remains the same.
*Royal Mill Apartments is planned for 96 apartments in four three-story walk-up buildings with one building for three townhouses all on 6.3 acres at the southeast corner of the Royal Mill Avenue and Flaherty Avenue.
Residential projects being constructed
*Kitchin Farms Phase 2B on Burlington Mills and Ligon Mill roads for 123 single-family lots. The master plan has been approved.
*Meridian Rogers Branch Apartments on Rogers Branch Road is planned for 264 units. The Wake Forest Town Board has approved this project.
*Legacy Heritage, an apartment complex of 308 units at the N.C. 98 Bypass, Heritage Lake Road and Friendship Chapel Road, was approved by the town board in 2019.
*Holding Village North Lake Phase 9 is a plan for 33 townhouse lots near the lake and the community center and swimming pool.
*Holding Village South Lake Phase 4 along South Franklin Street is for 25 single-family lots.
*Holding Village Apartments on Friendship Chapel Road plans 320 units in 10 three-story buildings.
*Everly amendment for the subdivision on Stephen Taylor Road to increase the plan to 173 lots. You can see the southernmost homes of a Youngsville subdivision from the most northern street.
*A building permit has been issued for the St. Catherine of Siena Parsonage at 600 West Holding Avenue.
*Devon Square on Capital Boulevard with a second entrance on Harris Road was approved by the Wake Forest Town Board on April 17, 2019 by an unusual three to two vote with Mayor Vivian Jones voting in Commissioner Liz Simpers absence. It will have 148 townhouses and an unspecified amount of commercial nearest Capital Boulevard, as well as 40 single-family homes in back. There are 68 acres and the plan includes a 50-foot naturally wooded buffer between the single-family residential section and E. Carroll Joyner Park.
*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.
*Brewer Circle subdivision calls for nine lots.
*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.
Commercial or institutional projects being constructed
*Wake Forest High School Stadium, Trentini Stadium, will be renovated by BAR Construction Company, which was the low bidder at $6.6 million of six bidders when the Wake County Board of Education put the put out the project for bid. BAR will demolish and replace the existing grandstands, athletic field and track. The track will also be brought to current standards and existing drainage problems will be addressed.
The target date for completion is March 2022.
The stadium began life as Groves Stadium for Wake Forest College. It was named for a donor, completed in 1940 and could hold 20,000 people. Trentini Stadium is named for Anthony Trentini, a Wake Forest College football player 1952-1959 and the coach of the Wake Forest High School football team 1959-1963.
*Heritage Corner in the northwest corner of South Franklin Street and Rogers Road across from Sheetz will be two two-story buildings with commercial uses in the first story and office space in the second story. It is nearly complete though there is site work still unfinished.
*The Tru Hotel on Wake Union Church Road and Hampton Way Drive appears to be underway with the building up.
*1628 South Main Street is being built by Marlowe Construction of Raleigh, its owner, and will be a two-story building facing South Main with its entrance from Forbes Road. The building will have commercial uses on the first floor and office space on the second floor. It will be named the Marlowe Building.
*A Wake Forest food hall, future name unknown, is planned for the second warehouse on South White Street.
*Casa Esperanza Montessori School is nearly complete and will open in the fall of 2022 with students in grades from kindergarten to eighth. The school held a groundbreaking event on Friday, February 25.
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I noticed activity in and around the former Hardee’s location (216 E. Roosevelt Ave.). The Wake Forest town website showed “Jalil’s Restaurant” as the pending occupant. Do you happen to have any further details? I’d be very happy if it is being repurposed for what appears to be a unique entrant into the downtown food scene.