
{"id":14753,"date":"2010-12-23T16:34:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T21:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=14753"},"modified":"2010-12-23T16:34:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T21:34:45","slug":"residents-tell-cvs-%e2%80%98not-here%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/12\/23\/residents-tell-cvs-%e2%80%98not-here%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Residents  tell CVS  \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcnot here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Kirk Ross<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Staff Writer<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n CARRBORO  \u00e2\u20ac\u201d About two dozen residents showed up for a meeting last week at Carrboro Town Hall with representatives of a group that wants to develop property owned by drug store chain CVS Caremark, and expressed their displeasure with the plan.<br \/>\nChris Bostic, an engineer with Kimley-Horn and Associates, and Leigh Polzella, a representative of Hart-Redd, a Tennessee-based real estate company that builds stores for CVS, showed neighbors of the property similar designs to ones presented to the board of aldermen in November.<br \/>\nThe site plan calls for the demolition of two houses on the east side of Center Street, the old bank building on the corner of Greensboro and Weaver streets and the offices of dentist Debra Seaton. The company would then construct a two-story 23,000-square-foot building with a drug store on the ground floor and store storage and additional commercial space above it.<br \/>\nThe new building would replace the existing CVS at Carr Mill Mall, which has the highest volume of any store in the chain in North Carolina. Bostic and Polzella said keeping that store\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s replacement close is a key part of the development.<br \/>\nResidents near the proposed site said that while they understood the company\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interest, the plan was not right for downtown.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153A lot of people got up and said \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwe don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want you to do that here,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Richard Jaimeyfield, who is part of a partnership that owns a house at 102 Center St. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not anti-CVS, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just against it right there in downtown.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nSeveral residents said their main worry is that since traffic at the intersection of Greensboro and Weaver streets is already bad, the new development could lead to a nightmare. Concerns also were raised about parking spillover to Carr Mill Mall.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This is not the right spot for the highest volume CVS in the state,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Center Street resident Jeff Herrick said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The intersection is not right for this type of development.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\nCharlie Hileman, who chairs the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Transportation Board, said he attended the meeting and sees a real challenge in how traffic would flow along Greensboro Street. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a very difficult intersection,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<br \/>\nHileman said the project would dramatically change the area.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The town has to look at it and say \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwhat do we want out of the area?\u00e2\u20ac\u2122\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said, adding that the town has spent years putting tough standards on businesses in its historic areas. A 24-hour drug store, he said, would vary considerably from that.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Now we have to decide if we want to extend that kind of business into the mill-house area,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Hileman said.<br \/>\nCompany representatives said they welcome feedback on the plan and will hold another discussion in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About two dozen residents showed up for a meeting last week at Carrboro Town Hall with representatives of a group that wants to develop property owned by drug store chain CVS Caremark, and expressed their displeasure with the plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14753"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14854,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14753\/revisions\/14854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}