Rolesville Mayor Seeks Commecial Growth.  Commercial growth means a larger tax base.  That fact is not lost on the Mayor of Rolesville and he wants to do something about it.  Rolesville has been the fastest growing town in North Carolina for the last two years.  Permits for single family homes attest to that fact.  There have been nearly 1,000 of them since 2002.  At the same time there have been only 33 commercial permits issued.  Last year 530 new arrivals called Rolesville home.  That’s a 29 percent increase.  The Mayor would like a 75 percent residential and 25 percent commercial mix.  The U.S. 401 bypass around the southeast side of Rolesville is slated to open in 2013.  That six mile stretch should provide enough commercial sites to provide the town (and the Mayor) with the desire mix.  However, the powers that be will need to try to balance the desire for commerical locations with the need to protect the watershed of the planned Little River Reservoir.  Fun and games a city hall.

You can’t talk about Rolesville without talking about the new Rolesville high school: where it will be, when it will be, and how much will it cost?  Wake school leaders say the school is going to take longer to build and cost more because the county commissioners rejected the site northeast of Raleigh that everyone seemed to think had been chiseled in stone.  If an alternative site isn’t found and agreed to by October the school would be delayed a year and not open until the 2012-2013 school year.  Currently, half of Rolesville’s high school students are going to Wake Forest-Rolesville High and the other half to Knightdale High.  Local residents don’t like that and neither do the residents in the other two areas.  With regard to this issue, the closer it gets to a solution the farther away the end result seems to get.

John Fish (919) 696-3474   Email: Marvmax@mindspring.com   Website: www.JohnFish.com

Rolesville, North Carolina.  Granite Falls To Offer 182 Homes.  The community will consist of Granite Falls, Granite Ridge and Granite Crest.  Granite Falls homes will range in size from 2,872 to 4,000 square feet and be price from the $340s.  Buyers will see homes of three or four bedrooms, generous sized great rooms, main level master suites, guest suites and a study.  There will be nine foot smooth ceilings on both the first and second floors.  Tile flooring and surrounds will be found in the full bathrooms while the kitchens will feature solid-surface counter tops and tile backsplashes.  Other features are heavy moldings throughout, structured wiring, extensive hardwood flooring, and the yards will be fully sodded.  Three car garages are optional as are finished attics and basements. 

The community will include the Granite Falls swim clud and athletic club with outdoor swimming pool, cabana and snack bar.  The swim club should open in the summer of 2008.  The pricing of the townhomes in the Granite Ridge neighborhood starts in the $140s while the single family homes in Granite Crest start in the $240s.  These areas will have an eight lane 25 meter indoor pool and a 30,000 square foot fitness center.  Perry Builders will be offering the community.  To get to Granite Falls from I-540 take Rolesville exit 18, left onto US-401 North, left onto W. Young Street, left ont Granite Falls Boulevard and righ into Granite Falls on Granite Park Drive.  For more information call me or send me at the number or address given below.

John Fish (919) 696-3474   Email: Marvmax@mindspring.com   Website: www.JohnFish.com 

Rolesville, North Carolina.  Rolesville’s Population is exploding!  Rolesville’s population has doubled to 2,500 during the last seven years.  Projections call for it to become a community of 11,500 by 2012.  Only last week the town approved Averette Farms, a subdivision of 831 homes.  Rolesville’s biggest problem is - water - what else!

Watching early morning TV news from the “Big Apple” is not something you want to do if you want news that is meaningful.  As to accurate you can forget about that.  For that reason about the only thing I watch is the local news, briefly, for the weather report.  Because the tube was on this morning and because just about anything with regard to water (however remote it might be) seems to catch my eyes or ears, I saw a dish drainer that they say costs $72.00.  I’m certainly glad they had that newsworthy tid bit on.  It may, however, say something about our society but that’s another story.   As Lucy would say, Uuuggghhhh!! Dog germs! 

John Fish (919) 696-3474    Email: Marvmax@mindspring.com     www.JohnFish.com 

Rolesville, North Carolina.  Another Triangle Area city is surrounded by the flower of growth.  How sweet the smell of that flower is depends on your point of view.  Granite Falls Boulevard is a new three-lane road, with a center turn lane, that has just opened.  It provides a connection from Rogers Road to West Young Street.  It is just about parallel to U.S. 401 (Louisburg Road) and, to the relief of everyone who drives 401 every day, will take a lot of traffic off of 401.  The road makes possible the Granite Falls Subdivision (237 homes planned) and Williow Crest (173 homes planned) which are both north of it.  THe Granite Ridge subdivision (300 homes on 26 acres and already approved) will be on the west side of Rogers Road, from where Granite Falls Boulevard will, in the future, extend to Burlington Mills Road.  Other new and planned Rolesville projects are the new Sanford Creek Elementary School will open later this year, a new State Employees Credit Union and an athletics facility with indoor pool and day care center.

For more information about the area and to see homes in the area call me or send me an email.

John Fish (919) 696-3474   Email: marvmax@mindspring.com   Website: www.JohnFish.com