East Cary Gateway

[KJHburg]

Say goodbye to Cary Town Center as it will be demolished real soon.

""Take a last look – after decades at the corner of Cary Town Boulevard and SE Maynard Road, the Cary Towne Center Mall appears to be nearing its final days as the new owners have filed for permission to demolish nearly the entire structure. Cary-based Epic Games filed a request last week with the city for a permit to demolish the entire structure, which is around 1 million square feet, with the exception of the Belk department store.""

Epic Games gears up to demolish Cary Towne Center mall for new HQ - Triangle Business Journal (bizjournals.com)

[KJHburg]

Visited Fenton in Cary for the first time today.  VERY impressed.  The look, the details, the retailers, office and retail space.  I do believe Wegmans made a mistake pulling out of this one as this is best suburban town center type projects I have seen.  Reminds me a lot of Avalon in Alpharetta outside Atlanta and some I have seen in Dallas.  Truly great work by Hines and Columbia development company.  This is the best new retail project in the Carolinas by far in the last few years.   

Fenton as I saw it today early this morning.   The pad site for Wegmans is there and even if they get a smaller in size  grocer they can build more specialty shop space.   if you live in the Triangle and have not been there you are missing out.  The Paragon theaters have $5 movies on Tuesday and there is an ice skating rink. 

[KJHburg]

This place was hopping last night and today midday: Fenton at Cary.   Had some local merchants on the main drag through the heart of Fenton.  The ice rink was packed. 

If you are local and have not been go it is really nice and will get bigger and bigger. 

last night ate at the Banana Leaf in Cary excellent Chinese food nearby.