
{"id":3435,"date":"2008-09-11T08:42:31","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T16:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=3435"},"modified":"2008-09-11T08:43:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T16:43:08","slug":"developers-residents-talk-new-southern-village-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/09\/11\/developers-residents-talk-new-southern-village-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Developers, residents talk new Southern Village construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Rich Fowler<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The developers of Southern Village met with residents on Monday and Tuesday nights to discuss building a five-story hotel or condominium in the center of the community. <\/p>\n<p>Southern Village developer D.R. Bryan said that the plan would be to put in either a 90-to-110-room hotel or condominiums on the site, along with a two-level parking deck and around 5,000 square feet of ground-level retail. Bryan said that a local hotel group has already expressed interest in the site.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nThe building would go in on the site of the parking lot across the street from Weaver Street Market.<\/p>\n<p>About half of the residents at the Tuesday night meeting were opposed to any new building. They were concerned about parking, security and aesthetics, and worried about overcrowding at Scroggs Elementary School. <\/p>\n<p>Southern Village resident Terry Melville is afraid of what either would do to the look and feel of the center: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think that if a structure goes there, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to lose the openness of the village, and it won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be as convenient for parking.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to see more stores go bankrupt, because that starts changing the character of our village,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said eight-year Southern Village resident Elizabeth Shuster. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I would rather take a chance on some growth done the right way.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Bryan and John Fugo, who teamed up to develop Southern Village 15 years ago, both live and work in the neighborhood. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re really looking at keeping this place alive and making sure that it continues to develop,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Fugo said. <\/p>\n<p>Michael Lyle, director of Market Street Books and Maps, is in favor of adding a hotel to Southern Village.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more that it needs to be done in a way that matches what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s already going on here,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Others are taking a more wait-and-see approach. Southern Village resident Rainer Dammers said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I think it depends highly on how you connect it to the existing village.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d His concern is that whatever goes in should fit in with the rest of the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153If there is significant opposition in the neighborhood to [the building], then we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to stop right now,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bryan said.<\/p>\n<p>The developers are going ahead with a very rough concept plan to save time and money. The plan calls for a 90,000-square-foot building with 58,000 square feet of parking.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153What we submitted to the town is nothing but a box with a maximum width, length and height saying this is the most that would be done under the zoning,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Bryan said. <\/p>\n<p>The developers want input from the Community Design Commission and the town council before committing to anything. If there is enough interest, they would start drawing up formal designs and plans. The concept plan is scheduled for review at the Sept. 24 CDC meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Rich Fowler Staff Writer The developers of Southern Village met with residents on Monday and Tuesday nights to discuss building a five-story hotel or condominium in the center of the community. Southern Village developer D.R. Bryan said that the plan would be to put in either a 90-to-110-room hotel or condominiums on the site,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435","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=3435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}