The Arden Group LLC owns the Winston-Salem Journalâs building on Spruce and Marshall streets.
Members of Crystal Towers United, Housing Justice Now and Winston-Salem Democratic Socialists of America want the city to use $51 million in stimulus money from the American Rescue Plan to fund the repairs.
âThis is a crucial piece of our affordable housing in Winston-Salem,â said Dan Rose, an activist with Housing Justice Now. âAnd the plan to put folks in Section 8 housing, it doesnât exist ⦠If it did exist, it would push 200 other families down that list when we have 16,000 families to serve. They have no plan to move these residents, and in the meantime, this building needs repairs. The city has the money to do it.â
The Winston-Salem City Council voted 7-1 Monday to allow Harris Teeter to build a gas station at its store on Peace Haven Road, near Robinhood Road.
The planned gas station is similar to one the grocery store chain opened in 2019 at Tanglewood Crossing shopping center in Clemmons.
The gas station would be built on a 12.19-acre tract at the corner of Peace Haven and Whitaker Ridge Drive and have 10 fuel pumps. The site is now a parking lot.
Laura Reid, a Charlotte-based traffic engineer representing Harris Teeter, said there would be a projected 125 trips in the a.m. and 140 trips in the p.m. generated by a fuel center of this size.