The ground floor retail spaces along Fenton Main Street are ready for tenants, and significant progress is under way on the upper-story residential and office space. The two-story parking deck along Trinity Road is mostly complete, while the five-story parking deck is 60% complete. This quarter, street paving for the project kicked off for onsite streets and parking as well as repaving of Trinity Road between Cary Towne Boulevard and Walnut Creek.

Anticipating a large number of building permit applications from retail tenants during the first quarter of FY 2022, staff worked with the developer to create a customized guide to educate applicants regarding Cary’s approval process. Arhaus submitted the development’s first building permit application at the end of June. Cary approved 10 building permits and four development plans for the site this quarter. Staff is also reviewing a master sign plan and more than 25 individual sign permit applications for the project. The developer is still working toward opening the first phase of the project in the spring of 2022.

The more than 50 acres owned by the Martin family and familiarly known as South Hills Mall is for sale. This land had been the topic of redevelopment for decades and, with the aid of the commercial real estate firm JLL, the family will solicit offers from the development community with the intent to close on the property by the end of 2021.

This quarter, Cary issued 18 non-residential permits for a total of 728,789 square feet. Some projects of note include: 

• Downtown Cary Park Bark Bar, 312 S. Walker St.: The Bark Bar includes an open-air covered bar and dining space overlooking the dog play area at the Downtown Cary Park. 
• Wake Medical Office Park of Cary, 210 Ashville Ave.: Fifteen building permits were approved within the new medical office building for new medical tenant spaces. 
• Duke Health (at Green Level Road), 100 Duke Health Cary Place: Two building permits were approved for pediatric and family medicine clinics in the new medical office building.  
• Williams House, 210 E. Chatham St.: Construction of an addition to an existing structure to accommodate business and assembly. 

Cary issued 112 non-residential alteration and addition permits this quarter. Projects of note include:

•  Dave and Buster’s, 1111 Walnut St.: Interior alterations to relocate the existing Dave and Buster’s from Cary Towne Center into the building formerly occupied by Jumpstreet. Exterior improvements include new finishes, materials, and lighting.
• Thales Academy, 1120 Buck Jones Road: Interior alterations to accommodate Thales Academy into the existing building previously occupied by Jellybeans.
• Epic Games, 5501 Dillard Drive: First-floor interior renovations to accommodate offices, conference rooms, and café space.

This quarter, 22 cases were in the rezoning process with seven cases approved. Those cases include: 

• Town Property, unaddressed property off Green Level West Road: Rezoning from Wake County Residential 40 Watershed to Cary zoning of Resource Recreation for a greenway connection to Dominion Estates. 
• Dellinger PDD Amendment, 1901 Piney Plains Road: Rezoning to allow for a mixed-use development, including up to 300 multi-family residential units, 25 townhomes, and 50,000 square feet of office space. 
• Pleasant Grove Church Road, 4111 Page Road: Establish zoning of Office, Institutional, Research and Development on a portion of the property to allow up to 120,000 square feet of office, institutional, research and development, and light manufacturing uses. 
• Lilly Atkins Rezoning, 4908 Lilly Atkins Road: Establish zoning of Transitional Residential Conditional Use to allow age-restricted detached dwellings with a maximum density of two units per acre.
• Twin Lakes PDD Amendment, 10152 Lake Grove Blvd.: Planned Development District amendment to allow for maximum of 230 multi-family dwelling units on a portion of the MU III South tract. 
• Arbors at Cary PDP, unaddressed property on Cheswick Place: Extend Mixed Use Overlay District and rezone from Residential Multi-family to Mixed Use District to allow a net increase of 27 multi-family dwelling units to existing development. 
• Carpenter Fire Station PDD, 6800 Indian Wells Road: Rezoning General Commercial; Wake County Residential 40; and Office, Institutional, Research and Development to Planned Development District Minor to allow 300 multi-family dwellings and 5,000 to 10,000 square feet of office space.

This quarter, Cary approved 46 development plans. Plans of note include: 

• Downtown Cary Park Phase 2, 338 S. Walker St.: Construction of above-ground improvements such
  as landscape, hardscape, and building elevations.  
• Long Beverage, 10500 World Trade Blvd.: Construction of a building addition, associated parking, and infrastructure improvements. 
• Fenton: Greenway Phase 1 and Building 4C, 855 Cary Town Blvd.: Construction of the public greenway and a Fifth Third Bank. 
• Cary First Baptist Church, 204 S. Academy St.: Sketch plan to establish a special use permit for religious assembly and improvements to the parking lot associated with the Northwoods redevelopment proposal.