Stock up on the popcorn. Tonight’s public hearing will likely be a two-bagger. First up, St. Paul’s AME Church wants to build a village on Purefoy Road, across from Phoenix Place, to serve the Rogers Road community. The proposed mixed-use development on a 20-acre parcel would consist of a church, a health center, a cultural […]
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Pile on the public hearings
Posted by Nancy Oates on May 21, 2012
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/05/21/pile-on-the-public-hearings/
Back from break
Town Council resumes meetings tonight, presumably refreshed and rarin’ to go after its 3-week spring break. Tonight’s agenda includes a number of interesting items, and perhaps a little gift. Community Home Trust starts the festivities with a petition for the town to commit to designating 13 of its parking spaces at 140 West Franklin for […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on April 16, 2012
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/04/16/back-from-break/
New year resolutions?
Council meetings resume one week from tonight. Here’s a glimpse of what may grace the agenda in 2012: Homeless shelter’s Good Neighbor Plan: A Better Site representatives are participating in the meetings, but IFC won’t allow the proceedings to be recorded. A Better Site wants teeth to the plan, consequences if the tenets are violated; […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on January 2, 2012
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2012/01/02/new-year-resolutions/
Condo giveaways
You can tell that the real estate market has tipped from a buyer’s market to a seller’s once builders and developers begin to give gifts to buyers who close on one of their homes. The last time the real estate market edged away from the seller’s end of the spectrum, and builders were looking at […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on July 15, 2011
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2011/07/15/condo-giveaways/
Wall Street of the mind
The folks with J&D Tree Pros out of Apex have begun cranking up their chain saws and taking down the trees and shrubs at Municipal Lot 5. Half the property has been cordoned off with yellow tape, sort of like a crime scene, to set it off from the other half, where parking is still […]
Posted by Don Evans on December 16, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/12/16/wall-street-of-the-mind/
High hopes
Anyone who has listened to WUNC Radio in the last couple of months has heard the ad for the 140 West project. The ad, which can run as many as four times a day, says that the project “is now rising in downtown Chapel Hill.” Last I checked nothing is rising on the spot where […]
Posted by Don Evans on November 10, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/11/10/high-hopes/
All quiet on the western front
Here’s some news: Parking lot #5 is full of cars. Not cranes or backhoes or bulldozers. No orange netting or even any signs heralding the day the lot will close forever. And we’re fast approaching June, the month construction was to begin on the 140 West Franklin condo high-rise. The lawyers among you will point […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on May 28, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/05/28/all-quiet-on-the-western-front/
Stonewall
Town manager Roger Stancil, town attorney Ralph Karpinos and town mayor Mark Kleinschmidt are giving government workers a bad name. A couple weeks ago, I sent an e-mail to the three asking what it would cost the town to walk away from the contract with RAM Development for the 140 West Franklin project. A few […]
Posted by Nancy Oates on February 15, 2010
http://chapelhillwatch.com/2010/02/15/stonewall/