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Holly Springs Park Entertainment Complex Plans to Add Commercial

Garner Impact: Garner and Holly Springs both have populations around 41,000, however, Garner continues to struggle to attract commercial development and amenities.

Holly Springs is planning to add an entertainment complex with restaurants and retail stores to Ting Park, a popular local sports and entertainment venue.

Garner Impact: Garner and Holly Springs both have populations around 41,000, however, Garner continues to struggle to attract commercial development and amenities.



Holly Springs officials are planning to add an entertainment complex with restaurants and retail stores to Ting Park, a popular local sports and entertainment venue.

This expansion aims to provide more amenities for park visitors, such as those waiting for children at sports practices or games. The initiative comes as Holly Springs has experienced significant population growth in recent years, and the town hopes the new complex will encourage residents to stay local for entertainment and attract visitors.

Local residents have expressed support for having food options at the park, and officials are seeking public input this summer with potential bidding for developers starting in the fall.

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Leaders Pack Cary Town Hall to Support Affordable Housing

Garner Impact: While Garner has concluded its Affordable Housing Task Force work, other municipalities in Wake County are moving forward to take action.

On Thursday night, ONE Wake leaders helped pack Cary Town Hall in a major show of support for the Carr Center, a new development that will bring dozens of affordable housing units, early childhood education facilities, and vital community space to the campus of Greenwood Forest Baptist Church. Over 130 Cary residents and supporters showed up, one of the strongest turnouts we have seen at a Cary Town Council meeting.

Garner Impact

Garner Impact: While Garner has concluded its Affordable Housing Task Force work, other municipalities in Wake County are moving forward to take action.


April 26, 2025

Leaders Pack Cary Town Hall to Support Affordable Housing

On Thursday night, ONE Wake leaders helped pack Cary Town Hall in a major show of support for the Carr Center, a new development that will bring dozens of affordable housing units, early childhood education facilities, and vital community space to the campus of Greenwood Forest Baptist Church. Over 130 Cary residents and supporters showed up, one of the strongest turnouts we have seen at a Cary Town Council meeting.

This project is the result of years of hard work and collaboration between Greenwood Forest Baptist Church, The Caring Place, and DHIC, working together to turn church and town-owned land into a place where more families can thrive. On Thursday night, the Cary Town Council voted unanimously and enthusiastically to approve the rezoning that will make this development possible. This is what organized people acting consistently and persistently can accomplish! 

Media Coverage
Indyweek: Cary Approves Affordable Housing in Church's Backyard
NewsObserver: Affordable Housing Set for Church Property Will Change Lives

Greenwood Forest Baptist Church, a ONE Wake founding member, shared the following message about this tremendous win:

"Not that long ago, people didn't believe such a thing was possible in Cary but your continued dedication and persistent presence has made a way. Thank you! Special thanks to ONE WAKE and Habitat for Humanity of Wake County for coming alongside us to make this historic turnout possible!

We'll be having a community launch party for the Carr Center on May 18 at GFBC from 3:00 - 5:00 pm and we'd love to see you there to celebrate."



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Jones Sausage Road: News and Observer, ‘Diverging diamond’ coming to I-40 interchange south of Raleigh. What drivers should know.

The new Jones Sausage interchange is part of a larger effort to widen I-40 from Raleigh south into Johnston County, which got underway in 2018. When plans for the project were presented to the public in 2017, NCDOT anticipated the interchange would remain essentially as it is today.

Garner Impact: This is significant change to the original plan. It is not clear what impact this will have on traffic along Jones Sausage Road or near by residents and businesses.

This N.C. Department of Transportation map shows the planned diverging diamond pattern at the Jones Sausage Road interchange with Interstate 40 in Garner. Construction is set to begin in July 2023 and finish in the fall. NCDOT

Garner Impact

Garner Impact: Garner Impact: This is significant change to the original plan. It is not clear what impact this will have on traffic along Jones Sausage Road or near by residents and businesses.


Read at Watch at N&O: HERE

BY RICHARD STRADLING

July 14, 2023

Diverging diamonds are still new to most Triangle drivers. The design involves crisscrossing traffic at either end of the interchange in a way that eliminates left turns across traffic and the amount of time drivers spend sitting at red lights. When plans for the project were presented to the public in 2017, NCDOT anticipated the interchange would remain essentially as it is today.

Highlights

  • But then Amazon announced that it would build a distribution center on the Garner side of the interchange, with thousands of employees and hundreds of trucks coming and going each day. NCDOT and the town agreed that the existing configuration of the interchange would be overwhelmed, said NCDOT spokesman Aaron Moody.

  • “It’s going to have to handle more traffic,” Moody said. “And we know the DDI does that safer and more efficiently.”

Read at Watch at N&O: HERE



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WRAL: A new North Hills? Johnston County unveils multimillion dollar Waterfront District

A multimillion dollar plan called ‘The Waterfront District’ is in the works near Highway 42. It would bring along hundreds of housing units, restaurants, and shops with waterfront views over North East Lake.

Garner Impact: Garner Impact: While Clayton and Johnston County continue to grow and attract a diverse tax base from both the residential and commercial direction, mixed use developers are ignoring Garner leaving Garner prey to tract home/townhome and low-rise apartment builders.

Garner Impact

Garner Impact: While Clayton and Johnston County continue to grow and attract a diverse tax base from both the residential and commercial direction, mixed use developers are ignoring Garner leaving Garner prey to tract home/townhome and low-rise apartment builders.


Read at Watch at WRAL: HERE

By Aaron Thomas, WRAL reporter

January 12, 2023

A multimillion dollar plan called 'The Waterfront District' is in the works near Highway 42. It would bring along hundreds of housing units, restaurants, and shops with waterfront views.

Nearby, an area called Flowers Crossroads is 'glowing with activity,' and right across the lake is where CEO Reid Stephenson says the Waterfront District will be located. It's a huge undertaking for a rural county – and bringing about mixed responses from locals.

Highlights

  • Currently under construction are 312 apartments. The views and North District is going to be 315 townhomes with the Waterfront District adjacent to the lake.

Read at Watch at WRAL: HERE



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NEWS & OBSERVER: Open for decades, Raleigh’s oldest golf center will close to make way for development

Wake County’s rapid growth in the last few years has brought out even more people to play golf, take lessons and swing endlessly on the driving range, on which a scene of “Bull Durham” was once filmed.

But that growth will soon bring an end to the activities in Raleigh’s oldest golf center, loved by longtime members and beginners alike.

Garner Impact: The headline says Raleigh but this is actually in Garner’s planning jurisdiction and affects Garner residents. Over 1000 residents have signed a petition opposing the rezoning. See it HERE

Garner Impact

Garner Impact: The headline says Raleigh but this is actually in Garner’s planning jurisdiction and affects Garner residents. Over 1000 residents have signed a petition opposing the rezoning. See it HERE


Read in News & Observer: HERE

By Aaron Sánchez-Guerra

AUGUST 24, 2022

On most afternoons, golf balls sail through the air and roll across the grassy expanse of 401 Par Golf on Fayetteville Road, where the sounds of nature mix in with the whooshes of swinging clubs.

Wake County’s rapid growth in the last few years has brought out even more people to play golf, take lessons and swing endlessly on the driving range, on which a scene of “Bull Durham” was once filmed.

Highlights

  • A golf school, a golf gear store and the first Pelican’s SnoBalls shaved ice shop to open — businesses housed within the Par Golf property — have to close by December to make way for the development.

  • The development has not been approved yet by the town of Garner. A request has been submitted to rezone the land to allow for high-density building. The timeline is unclear of when it will move forward to a public hearing with the town council, but residents already have started expressing concerns about a shift to dense development in the area.

  • “Having an affordable, easygoing place where you can go where you’re not judged, and everybody is friendly, it’s hard to find that type of thing,” said Kristan, 63. “It’ll be difficult for people around here. ... A friend of mine said the other day, ‘If you go out of business, I’m going to have to drive 45 minutes to hit a bucket of balls.’ That’s insane.”

  • Existing single-family homes currently surround the property. The land is federally designated as an Opportunity Zone, according to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which means that SLI Capital could qualify for economic incentives for building on the land.

Read in News & Observer: HERE



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