As some Wilmington-area healthcare workers queued up for their second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, people 65 and older were receiving a first dose as the…
An attempt by Design Solutions to expand an
RV park near Carolina Beach was continued to the February board of commissioners meeting.
Battleship Cycles and Marine
Battleship Marine plans on building a dealership and showroom on Market Street, north of the Military Cutoff intersection. (Port City Daily/Courtesy New Hanover County)
In between a CubeSmart storage facility and a veterinary hospital on Market Street, there is an undeveloped tract of land that the owners hope to turn into a boat dealership, with retail space for boats, motorcycles and ATVs.
Development in the area has previously been untenable, since the veterinary clinic next door possesses a septic system that sits in the wooded area between both properties. Further, there is a 41-inch heritage oak nearby the septic system, limiting potential plans.
Plans for Whiskey Branch include a mixed-use building, apartments, single-family homes, and office and retail space located off South College Road. (Port City Daily photo/Courtesy New Hanover County)
NEW HANOVER COUNTY After developers walked away from plans to bring a mixed-use project to South College Road in 2019, a reimagined proposal for Whiskey Branch is back up for review.
Though tenants aren’t yet concrete and a needed rezoning hasn’t yet been approved, developers are planning to bring a hotel, “gourmet grocery store,” coffee shop, consumer electronics store, and at least 460 new residential units to South College Road.
Plans for the expansion of Whiskey Branch show its developer, Dry Pond LLC, is hoping full build-out will consist of at least 460 apartments, 50,000 square feet in general office space, and 122,750 square feet of retail.
Vaccine administrations will continue Thursday and Friday in New Hanover County. All available appointments are booked. Next week the county will pivot to comply with new statewide guidelines, requesting counties to commence with vaccinations of all individuals 65 and older. (Port City Daily photo/Courtesy New Hanover County)
NEW HANOVER COUNTY Change-ups in the vaccination process this week have trickled down from federal to county levels. The floodgates of eligibility are widening and additional medical care providers are joining the frontline grind.
Aligning with
guidance from Raleigh, New Hanover County announced Thursday future vaccine shipments will be partly allocated for residents between the ages of 65 and 74. Since Jan. 7, the county had been focusing on individuals 75 and older. The change adds approximately 20,000 county residents to the immediate eligibility list.
The subject site of a NHC Planning Board application is unincorporated land enclosed within the City of Wilmington, and borders a 40-acre parcel behind a last-minute letter to the board before its Thursday meeting. (Courtesy New Hanover County staff)
NEW HANOVER COUNTY Heirs to a 8-acre piece of unincorporated land, tucked within the boundaries of the City of Wilmington, are hoping to rezone their parcel to multi-family use.
At a New Hanover County Planning Board meeting Thursday, an Intracoastal Realty agent representing the owners said the heirs are not developers; they want to sell the land and seek a rezoning to make the parcel more attractive to developer buyers.