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Phase II construction of the park has begun. It has been a couple weeks since I've been to DT Cary. Wow! Major digging going on. I am surprised at how much of Phase I of the park, only a couple years old, has been dug up. Basically, everything immediately behind the fountain is gone; literally, gone. Seems kind of wasteful -so much of that work, again, only a couple years old, had to be taken out to make way for Phase II.
Also, the parking deck is almost totally wrapped now with what will be mixed-use (apartments/condos up and retail/restaurant down).
Speaking of wrapping around, kind of hard to get my head wrapped around what the end result will be with all of these drastic changes. I guess ToC is going to have some up-coming events to help citizens do just that (see link).
Draft CAMPO plan (map) includes some central-Cary notable projects:
- N Harrison railroad grade separation, $22.6M, 2040
- NE Maynard railroad grade separation, $38M, 2030
- Chapel Hill Road widening to 4-6 lanes, $11.3M + $8.5M, 2030-2040
- Maynard / NC 54 widening to six lanes, $18.8M, 2050
- S Harrison Ave extension to Kildaire Farm, behind Cary Elementary, $2.5M, 2030 (the town should consider buying this land now, then)
- Roads for Fenton
- Rebuilt 1/40/440 interchange
- Railroad grade separations from Maynard east to I-440 (including Corp Center & Edwards Mill extensions over RR)
- Widening of Old Apex, Maynard/Walnut past CTC, E Chatham outside Maynard
Basically, if it isn't on this map, it can't qualify for federal transportation dollars -- which have been scarce recently, but maybe less so in the future.
The town has been wanting to grade-separate Harrison for a long time, but doing so is a big logistical challenge. Didn't know that the Harrison-Kildaire connector was still on the table.
I’d heard about the H-K extension getting resurrected recently. If they do that, they really need to figure out something for after school pickup. Currently SHar can back up quite a bit (and dumbasses try to go around it in the oncoming lane thru multiple blind curves). I do kinda think the project makes some sense compared to having all that Kildaire traffic dumping going thru the big turn at the Park/Arts Center. The current situation for pedestrians is really unsafe.
Crazy how much the RR grade sep stuff is relative to stuff like widening 54.
Phase II construction of the park has begun. It has been a couple weeks since I've been to DT Cary. Wow! Major digging going on. I am surprised at how much of Phase I of the park, only a couple years old, has been dug up. Basically, everything immediately behind the fountain is gone; literally, gone. Seems kind of wasteful -so much of that work, again, only a couple years old, had to be taken out to make way for Phase II.
Also, the parking deck is almost totally wrapped now with what will be mixed-use (apartments/condos up and retail/restaurant down).
Speaking of wrapping around, kind of hard to get my head wrapped around what the end result will be with all of these drastic changes. I guess ToC is going to have some up-coming events to help citizens do just that (see link).
Saw the filings with the town a few days ago, but now TBJ has an article up with renderings for the big Jordan project at Chatham and Harrison...195 units plus 80,000 square feet of office and a big parking deck that will serve the development, the church, and general public parking needs downtown.
Hoping for approval this summer, starting construction Q1 next year, and three years of construction for full buildout. Phase 1 would be the apartment building and parking deck, with Phase 2 being the office/retail building fronting Chatham.
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