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A Charlotte development company is positioning itself to kick start Chapel Hill’s long-dormant office market just as the Triangle could emerge from a COVID-19 slump.

Gwendolyn Harrison Smith was the first African-American woman to attend classes at the University of North Carolina. She enrolled in a Spanish class in the summer of 1952 as a graduate student after already earning a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree and was teaching at Johnson C. Smith in Charlotte.

A new office building now being completed in Chapel Hill will be named in honor of Gwendolyn Harrison Smith, the first Black woman to attend classes at the university there.

Nearly 70 years ago, Scottish-born William Muirhead opened Glen Lennox in Chapel Hill, a property that soon became home to celebrities, athletes and future leaders.

The seven candidates for Town Council in Chapel Hill recently answered a series of questions on development, housing, taxes, traffic, and more. Two candidates, Jessica Anderson and Michael Parker, cited the incentives for office space as Glen Lennox as a positive move for commercial development.

Aaron chats with Clay Grubb of Grubb Properties, the company behind the redevelopment (now underway) of Chapel Hill’s iconic Glen Lennox neighborhood.

As Glen Lennox begins its renovations in the next few weeks, it is looking to recognize strong female historical figures while naming the new buildings.

Construction will soon begin on a large commercial office building in Chapel Hill. The building at Glen Lennox will be the third of its kind to be built in Chapel Hill in the last nine years and is a part of a greater project to restore the historic property to its former grandeur.

The partnership will give Grubb Properties the opportunity to bring more commercial taxes, jobs and community benefits to Chapel Hill more quickly, Mayor Pam Hemminger said.

Aaron chats with Clay Grubb of Grubb Properties, the company behind the redevelopment (now underway) of Chapel Hill’s iconic Glen Lennox neighborhood.

Grubb Properties and the Town of Chapel Hill have been working together on developing office spaces in Glen Lennox, a planned community in Chapel Hill. Following several years of collaboration, the two parties may have finally reached a breakthrough.

The Chapel Hill Town Council considers an incentives package to encourage office-space development in Glen Lennox; town planners seek to make it easier for restaurants to offer sidewalk dining.

Grubb Properties is proposing bringing nearly 500,000 square feet of office space to Chapel Hill as it is redeveloping Glen Lennox. But in order to get that construction closer to reality, Chapel Hill is preparing to offer more than $2 million in incentives.

Plans to construct a 215 unit apartment building at the southwest corner of the intersection of Brandon Road and Flemington Road were approved on September 8, 2017.

A longtime property owner in Chapel Hill wants to experiment with a new way to make rent affordable for lower-income workers.

Several major development projects are underway in Chapel Hill, with some closer to completion than others. Town staff provided an update to the Orange County Board of Commissioners at a recent meeting.

After a decade of community meetings, planning and more community meetings, work could begin on the redevelopment of the historic property in Chapel Hill as soon as next month.

Grubb Properties expects to begin soon the first phase of redevelopment at the Glen Lennox community at Hayes and Brandon roads off Fordham Boulevard. Town of Chapel Hill staff is reviewing the project now. A Chapel Hill Town Council review is not required.

The apartments at Glen Lennox opened in 1950 to alleviate the housing shortage in Chapel Hill after World War II.

The Chapel Hill Town Council unanimously approved a development agreement for Glen Lennox on Monday night. The council also voted 5-3 to conditionally approve entering the negotiation phase with East-West Partners, which seeks to develop 120 acres at the Obey Creek site.

Historic Glen Lennox has finally been approved for new development by Grubb Properties. The property, which has been stagnant for 60 years, finally received town approval for redevelopment.

The Town Council could decide in June whether to proceed with a development agreement for the Glen Lennox mixed-use project.

The Town of Chapel Hill is developing the Glen Lennox neighborhood under a new process that offers greater leeway in negotiating with developers, but some residents are worried that change may not be for the best.

It seems that Grubb Properties wants to tear down Glen Lennox, a neighborhood of moderately-priced rentals, and rebuild more densely with a mix of uses including presumably higher-priced housing

This article discusses the potential redevelopment of the Glen Lennox neighborhood and shopping center in the northeast corner of Raleigh Rd (NC 54) & Fordham Blvd (US 15/501).

Chapel Hill offers many elements potential residents find attractive. But available office space has not been one of them. The town is taking steps to improve its availability for office spaces. Upcoming mixed-use projects like Carraway Village and Glen Lennox plan to incorporate office space to join the existing new option of Carolina Square.

Despite the town’s efforts, residents and shoppers may not see more offices and stores built any time soon in the Blue Hill District. The district has generated a smattering of retail in four years, over 1,000 apartments and concerns about whether the redevelopment experiment is working.

Copenhagenize, the premiere bicycle infrastructure designers from Denmark are helping plan new streetscapes in a project in Chapel Hill. We no longer design streets for humans but have turned them into mathematical equations to be solved.

The Employee Housing Incentives pilot program will help keep quality town employees and make it easier for employees to be involved in the community.

CHAPEL HILL - Will paying town employees up to $7,500 to help them buy a home, or 1,850 to help them pay the rent, make workers happier and more invested in the community.

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Emily is responsible for all internal and external corporate communications, including press releases, communications with investors, and company-wide internal updates. She also serves as company spokesperson. Previously, she was a reporter covering the United States Congress. She is the author of “Powerful Women: The 25 Most Influential Women in Congress,” and has appeared on MSNBC, FOX News, C-SPAN, several local news channels, and SiriusXM Radio. A native of Charlotte, she received her bachelor’s degree in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University.

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