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Developer droppes shoppes

Posted on October 4, 2007 by Staff

By Kirk Ross
Staff Writer

The Board of Aldermen might have approved, but apparently Harris Teeter did not.
Less than 48 hours after the board approved the Shoppes at Jones Ferry, a proposed 7.7-acre development with rows of stores and a 52,000-square-foot Harris Teeter as the anchor tenant, NorthWest Property Group of Skyland, N.C., who was to develop the project, notified the town that the project would not move forward. At present, the site, located across from the OWASA water treatment plant, serves as a construction yard for builder Calvin Mellott, who retains ownership of the land after NorthWest opted not to close on the property.

At issue was an entrance on Barnes Street that had become a focal point for residents of the adjacent Lincoln Park neighborhood. Neighbors said Barnes Street already has too much traffic on it and adding a grocery would exacerbate an already bad situation.

“This project was willing to agree to all of the conditions the Mayor and Board of Aldermen had asked for, but unfortunately cannot agree to this condition,” NorthWest’s Gregory A. Edney wrote in a letter to Carrboro Town Manager Steve Stewart.

The company had previously indicated its concern that not having two entrances — one off of Jones Ferry and one off of Barnes Street — would scratch the project.
In a letter to the board dated Sept. 12, Harris Teeter president Fred Morganthall called having ingress and egress to the site off of Barnes Street essential.

Last week, after closing a continuation of a public hearing on the project, the board of aldermen debated the project, with a majority of the board initially leaning toward turning it down. Eventually, the board voted 6 to 1 to approve the project with the condition that the entrance on Barnes Street be closed except to emergency vehicles.

Ben Davis, a Barnes Street resident who helped to rally his neighbors, said he still expects the site to someday be developed. Davis said the Shoppes as planned would have fit in better in Cary or Raleigh than Carrboro and that he’d like to see a project proposed that would support more homegrown businesses.

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