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Chatham County, once known as mostly rural and undeveloped, will see its newer suburban elements increase with the first mid-rise multifamily apartment complex of its kind on the U.S. 15-501 corridor.
Briar Chapel developer Newland and Raleigh-based real estate investors Blue Heron Asset Management are planning and designing a 200-unite apartment complex across three four- to five-story buildings with amenities and a clubhouse building. Work on it is slated to begin in the first quarter of 2020.
It will be part of the vast Briar Chapel residential community of 1,900 homes. Its neighboring development Chatham Park in Pittsboro, is predicted to bring nearly 60,000 more people to the county.
Ten years from now Chatham County will look nothing like it did ten years ago. We recently decided to pass on relocating to Brier Chapel because nearby services were still seriously lacking (it failed the Starbucks litmus test), but there's no doubt that will be changing fairly soon.
Growth is steady in the greater Triangle area and Chatham County will be the most accurate measurement of how that's going.
There is good local coffee at Briar Chapel at the Breakaway Cafe where they use locally roasted Counter Culture coffee, but Briar Chapel and Fearrington also are a little bit away from other stuff. Chatham already looks nothing like it did 10 or 20 years or even 30 years ago.
Ten years from now Chatham County will look nothing like it did ten years ago. We recently decided to pass on relocating to Brier Chapel because nearby services were still seriously lacking (it failed the Starbucks litmus test), but there's no doubt that will be changing fairly soon.
Growth is steady in the greater Triangle area and Chatham County will be the most accurate measurement of how that's going.
Briar Chapel is BEGGING for a Southern-Village type amenities. They have the best pool/clubhouse in the Triangle and the overall neighborhood aesthetic is on point and has created "bike and stroller" friendly neighborhood for sure.....but there is NOTHING out there yet. You've got Town Hall burgers near the main "entrance" for the neighborhood (Really the park that you drive through to get to the actual residential streets).
They've been successful in the "hey come get twice the house, 20 years newer, with half the taxes and 60% of the purchase price" for folks who work in Chapel Hill; but they won't be unique in that regard in a decade or so.
I haven't been in BC is it really that nice the houses look on top of each other
I don't know what's gonna happen in Chatham it's still a haul to the jobs and the way traffic is getting thick everywhere..ugh
Houses are definitely tightly packed. As is the case for virtually all master-planned communities in the Triangle for the past 10 years.
BC does have a tremendous amount of walking trails, parks/common areas though. I don't think I've ever driven through a strictly residential neighborhood and seen as many folks out and about and socializing with neighbors as I've observed in BC. I believe that was part of the developer's whole "vision". Not ton of yard space in most homes so the kids and adults alike go out and play/socialize in the common areas.
Ten years from now Chatham County will look nothing like it did ten years ago. We recently decided to pass on relocating to Brier Chapel because nearby services were still seriously lacking (it failed the Starbucks litmus test), but there's no doubt that will be changing fairly soon.
Growth is steady in the greater Triangle area and Chatham County will be the most accurate measurement of how that's going.
How true is this for western Chatham County though? Ask most Triangle residents about Chatham County, and Pittsboro, Fearrington Village, and Chatham Park are the places that probably come to mind, but this portion of the county doesn't account for even half of the county's land area that lies west of Pittsboro.
What about places like Siler City, Goldston, Bennett, Bear Creek, etc., and the rural and farming areas that are interspersed in between? Those seem to be an entirely different economy and demographic than the eastern (especially the northeastern) corner of the county.
How true is this for western Chatham County though? Ask most Triangle residents about Chatham County, and Pittsboro, Fearrington Village, and Chatham Park are the places that probably come to mind, but this portion of the county doesn't account for even half of the county's land area that lies west of Pittsboro.
What about places like Siler City, Goldston, Bennett, Bear Creek, etc., and the rural and farming areas that are interspersed in between? Those seem to be an entirely different economy and demographic than the eastern (especially the northeastern) corner of the county.
This is correct; the development and growth in Chatham is and will continue to be heavily skewed to the north and east of Pittsboro. I don't see that changing any time in the near future.
How true is this for western Chatham County though? Ask most Triangle residents about Chatham County, and Pittsboro, Fearrington Village, and Chatham Park are the places that probably come to mind, but this portion of the county doesn't account for even half of the county's land area that lies west of Pittsboro.
What about places like Siler City, Goldston, Bennett, Bear Creek, etc., and the rural and farming areas that are interspersed in between? Those seem to be an entirely different economy and demographic than the eastern (especially the northeastern) corner of the county.
Well of course, but that makes sense. They are farther away from the Triangle's core and alsmost as far away from the Triad's core. That would be the case in any metropolitan area.
How true is this for western Chatham County though?
Jowel, is your question in regard to this statement by NYC2RDU?
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Originally Posted by NYC2RDU
Growth is steady in the greater Triangle area and Chatham County will be the most accurate measurement of how that's going.
Or this one?
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Originally Posted by NYC2RDU
Ten years from now Chatham County will look nothing like it did ten years ago.
'Cause there are places in western Chatham that already look nothing like they did 10, 20, or 30 years ago, like Siler City, which is now heavily majority Hispanic (50% Hispanic, 29% white, 19% black). There was a great book written about their high school soccer championship about 10-15 yrs ago, called “Home on the Field: How One Championship Team Inspires Hope for the Revival of a Small Town.”.
NYC2RDU, when did you move down here? You may have missed the massive growth that happened decades ago. I would say the past 10 years has not been that dramatic in Chatham. There has been growth, of course, but the 1990s was a big decade of change for Chatham. Next decade when Chatham Park starts getting more built out that will also really change things.
I don't think growth in Chatham is a particularly great litmus test or accurate measure of steady growth in the Triangle. That's kinda silly. Obviously growth in Wake, Durham, and Orange counties, the core counties of the Triangle are the best measure of growth in the Triangle. Duh. Why would growth in Chatham be a measure of growth in the Triangle? There are parts of Chatham that are not Triangle-oriented at all. Siler City, the current largest city in Chatham (though Chatham Park will change that) is 20 miles from Asheboro, 25 miles from Sanford and 30 miles from Greensboro vs 50 miles from Raleigh. That part of Chatham is much more oriented about the Triad/Asheboro and the Sandhills/Sanford than it is the Triangle.
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