The Town has received a request for review of a Concept Plan submittal proposing a multi-family development at 2476 E. N.C. 54. The site is located on the north side of N.C. 54 E. across from Downing Creek Parkway between the U.S. Army Corps Upper Little Creek Waterfowl Impoundment Area and Barbee Chapel Road.
The 5.8-acre site is located in the Residential-1 zoning district, the Resource Conservation District, and the Watershed
Protection District. The site is identified as Durham County Parcel Identifier Number 9798-03-94-6008.

The Chapel Hill Town Council will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 16, in the Council Chamber of Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

The proposed redevelopment includes: a 3-story parking deck for 90 cars, replacing a single-story building with a three-story building, and adding a third and fourth story to two existing buildings. Retail/restaurant use is proposed for the ground level floor area, 19 residential units are planned for the second, third and fourth floors. Vehicular access is proposed from Roberson Street and pedestrian access from West Franklin Street and Roberson Street.

The Courtyard of Chapel Hill Mixed Use Development Concept Plan proposing redeveloping a portion of The Courtyard of Chapel Hill retail center. The Town has received a request for review of a Concept Plan submittal that is located at 431 W. Franklin St. on the corner of W. Franklin Street and S. Roberson Street.

The 1.06-acre site is located in the Town Center-2 zoning district and is identified as Orange County Parcel Identifier Number 9788-15-3958. The Chapel Hill Town Council will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 16, in the Council Chamber of Town Hall, 405 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

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The ground floor will contain a weight room , lacrosse locker room, visitors’ locker room, mechanical and storage areas. The second floor will accommodate the new Carolina Student Athlete Center for Excellence and the athletic business office. The third level, which is the main concourse level, will connect the north and south sides of the stadium and provide improved pedestrian circulation around the stadium. This level will include a lower club area and 2,400 outdoor spectator seats. This level will contain a kitchen to serve levels 3, 4 and 5. The fourth level will consist of the upper club area with 900 outdoor spectator seats. The fifth level will offer twenty individual suites that can accommodate sixteen seats in each suite.

The new five-story structure will include a Center of Excellence for athletes, the athletics department’s Carolina Leadership Academy, an Olympic sports strength and conditioning center, visiting football locker room, club seats and individual suites. The academic center will be a 30,000 sqft facility and will include classrooms, computer labs, a writing center, auditorium, individual and group tutorial/conference rooms, and offices for the academic support staff, career services, community outreach, life skills and the Carolina Leadership Academy. The strength and conditioning center will be housed at field level and will include 13,600 sqft of cardio and strength training equipment and a 40-yard track.

Sales of club seats and individual suites began in October. Those sales will provide about half of the funding. Private donations will fund the rest of the project. Read More At: UNC Alumni
or check out the progress webcam

WakeMed held an open house on Sunday, to present its newest structure to the community. Each floor in the building has a distinct purpose:
2nd floor – cardiovascular intensive care unit 20 rooms opening June 9
3rd floor – cardiovascular intermediate care floor 41 rooms opening June 3
4th floor dedicated children’s hospital opening June 15
As with most complex projects, other accessories required investment also, such as:
garden and courtyard
connections through window corridors to the older sections
traffic flow – old parking garage is gone, replaced by a new garage directly across from the new buiding

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The new site will complement Eisai’s existing 190-K sqft operation, which is utilized for the commercial manufacturing of oral solid dose products as well as the formulation and development of compounds for use in clinical trials. The exceptional growth of the company has led Eisai to expand its presence in North Carolina for the third time since 2001. In addition, a separate $22-M central utilities building was opened in 2008 to supply power, steam, chilled water and compressed air to the existing operation, new parenteral facility and for future expansions.

In 1997 Eisai Inc. opened an 85-K sqft, state-of-the-art pharmaceutical production and formulation research and development facility in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Since its opening, the facility has more than doubled in size with the completion of a second expansion in 2003.

The Town has received a request for review of a Concept Plan submittal proposing a mixed use development at 1119
U.S. Hwy. 15-501 South. The site is located on the east side of U.S. Hwy. 15-501 South. across from the Market Street entrance to Southern Village.

Obey Creek, Mixed Use Development
File No. 9787-13-6437

Vehicular access to U.S. Hwy 15-501 South is proposed from three access points. The 120-acre site is located in the
Neighborhood Commercial (NC) and Residential-Low Density-1 (R-LD1) zoning districts. The site is in the Resource
Conservation District, the Watershed Protection District, and identified as Orange County Parcel Identifier Numbers
9787-13-6437, 9787-14-0366, and 9787-14-8639.

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Rain gardens reduce stormwater runoff, improve water quality, allow for the recharge of groundwater supplies, increase wildlife habitat and often reduce the need for mowing and its associated costs and pollution.
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This Citizen’s personal action last year, was refuted by his neighbor for uninformed reasons. So now the politically correct GO SLOW approach is to interject sporadically, the information that I come across while researching development designs. With many neighborhood associations facing budget crises they are not likely to take on the expense of retrofitting the landscaping, even though it will immediately begin saving money. Hopefully, once a committee finally gets around to approving the concept, they may allow an individual to fund his own yard plantings, that enables good stewardship of the environment over the uninformed fear of change.

For example, one member of a time bank may provide an hour of tax advice to another. Another may weed a person’s garden for an hour. Each hour-long act receives a “time dollar” that can be used to purchase someone else’s labor.

Time banks are designed to build community, its founders say. It teaches people that everyone has value, even if they don’t have a job. Thirty-five states have time banks, group founders say.

“The idea is that nobody’s labor is worth more than anybody else’s labor. We’re all in this together,” says Judith Lasker, a time bank member and a sociology professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania who is writing a book about time bank organizations. source: CNN

Durham county commissioner Ellen Reckow says there is increased support for using heavyweight “commuter” trains to link Raleigh, Durham and maybe other towns. Commuter rail shares existing tracks with freight trains. Such a service would offer connections between cities, but stops would be farther apart.

Wednesday’s meeting brought together elected officials from Wake, Durham and Orange counties so they could hear an update from administrators on each county’s transit planning.

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What I don’t understand is the exact route that was chosen years ago, utilizing US-15-501-bypass corridor in Durham.

As my quick map shows, a Chapel Hill road route is closer to the denser part of town, and is the same route currently being used by the DATA bus system. Encouraging TOD>transit-oriented-development along this route would provide a much more efficient implementation of transit in our area. An equally efficient alternative can be found for serving Duke University, just as Chapel Hill has done with UNC. Its up to DATA and Duke Transit to start working together.

I am excited about the progressive steps that I am seeing in Triangle’s transit plans. Let me just say that transit means different things to different people and everyone has opinions and biases. Ultimately what we end up using – to get around – will be different than what was imagined earlier.

The health system had 63,000 in-patients last year and 1.6 million out-patient visits. Currently 924 in-patient beds. Adding 160 more beds, 1,000 permanent jobs, 1,500 construction jobs over the next 4 years.

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There are only 3 retail choices within the 1.5 mile radius of Duke University.
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