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Popular convenience store chain Wawa opening location in Johnston County
A popular convenience store chain is putting a location in the Triangle area.Wawa has filed plans to build a store in at NC 42 and Old Drugstore Road in the Cleveland community in Johnston County.The site is a vacant lot. Wawa, a staple in the Northeast, particularly in its home state of Pennsylvania, opened its first North Carolina location in May on the Outer Banks.Wawa plans to build at least 80 stores across the Tar Heel State in the next 10 years.About 15 of those stores will be in the Fayetteville area.It appears most of Wawa's footprint in North Carolina will avoid head-to-head competition with another popular Pennsylvania-based chain, Sheetz, which has focused its locations in the central part of the state.
Busy Intersection Will Be Widened To Ease Congestion
CLAYTON – A Clayton intersection known for backups and delays will receive additional turn lanes and other enhancements. The N.C. Department of Transportation awarded a $3.7 million contract last week to Wilson-based S.T. Wooten Corp. to improve the traffic flow at Shotwell Road and U.S. 70 Business by adding:
Council OK’s Buffalo Road homes
SMITHFIELD — A deeply divided Town Council has said yes to new homes on Buffalo Road near Smithfield Middle School. When the request first surfaced in January, the council fretted mostly about density — 222 single-family homes on lots of just 4,200 square feet. Council members worried too about drainage, fearing stormwater from the subdivision would swamp homes in neighboring […] The post Council OK’s Buffalo Road homes first appeared on Restoration NewsMedia.
History becomes housing in Clayton
CLAYTON — A development company has brought a historic textile factory back to life as an apartment building known as the Spinning Mill Lofts. Thomas Taft Jr., principal at Taft Development Group, said it took some time to see the full potential of the 120-year-old building that was home to the Clayton Spinning Co. for nearly eight decades. “We were […] The post History becomes housing in Clayton first appeared on Restoration NewsMedia.
Mayor, lawmaker say no one took $1 million from senior center
CLAYTON — The letter writer accused the town and a state lawmaker of colluding to take $1 million away from the Clayton Center for Active Aging. That never happened, town leaders and a state lawmaker said. “The Johnston CSS never lost $1 million,” N.C. Sen. Benton Sawrey said, referring to Community & Senior Services, the agency that oversees that Clayton […] The post Mayor, lawmaker say no one took $1 million from senior center first appeared on Restoration NewsMedia.
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