Pine Level
Pine Level, NC · Real Estate
jocoreport.com
Future Of Former GALOT Motorsports Park Uncertain As Property Goes To Auction
BENSON, N.C. — One of Johnston County’s best-known motorsports venues is up for sale. The former GALOT Motorsports Park, now operating as Darana Motorsports Park, is being offered through a sealed-bid auction with bids due Nov. 17. The racing facility is located at 555 Dragstrip Road outside Benson.
Housing Wire
A real estate succession plan built over two decades
Lucia Cooke and daughter Allison Zimmerman built a decades-long succession plan for Cooke Residential, a Raleigh-Durham firm with ~$32 million in 2025 volume. Zimmerman now serves as broker in charge and co-owner. Trust, education, and shared institutional knowledge—including from the late Cecil Cooke Jr.—shaped the transition. AI Summary.
WRAL News
Stein highlights affordable housing during tour of new Raleigh complex
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein toured Raleigh's newest affordable housing complex on Tuesday with Southeast Raleigh Promise and shared plans for expanding affordable housing across the state. Southeast Raleigh Promise's chief executive, Yvette Holmes, led the tour alongside Emila Sutton, Raleigh's Director of Housing and Community Development. Stein saw the...
midtownmag.com
Frankie Lemmon School Plans Major Expansion in North Raleigh
For more than six decades, Frankie Lemmon School has built its mission around a simple idea: children of all abilities should have a place where they can learn, grow, and belong. Now, that mission is preparing for a much larger home. Frankie Lemmon School and Foundation has acquired a two-building...
WAVY News 10
Affordable housing project a model for NC
afamwilsonnc.com
701 East Green Street, revisited.
George and Cora Miller Washington built their large house at 701 East Green around 1920. George Washington‘s sister Annie was married to Samuel H. Vick and lived catercorner from the Washingtons at 622 East Green. Within a decade of Historic Register designation in 1988, East Green Street had lost...
decorhint.com
This North Carolina City Could Be The Place Everyone Wants To Move To In 2027
House hunting has a funny way of turning normal people into part-time detectives. Suddenly, commute times feel personal and every neighborhood gets inspected like it is hiding a secret. As 2027 gets closer, one North Carolina town keeps giving future residents plenty to investigate. The appeal is not difficult to...
indyweeknc
The Couple Who Didn’t Sell
The winding road to the Whitehouse home, a beautiful brick two-story surrounded by towering pines, used to be called Old Holly Springs–Apex Road. Today, it’s Veridea Parkway, renamed for the multibillion-dollar mixed-use development taking shape on either side. Greg and Brenda Whitehouse, a married couple in their 70s,...
usanews.com
Ten Years After Leaving the Bay Area, a Raleigh Agent Shares What Californians Should Know Before They Move
The first time Carolyn Graven flew into Raleigh-Durham International Airport during spring pollen season, the descent looked exactly like flying into the Bay Area. There was the same haze settled over everything below. The difference was the color. "In California it's smog," she says. "Here it was yellow. That was...
hoodline.com
Cary Town Hall Knew About ICE Office Inquiries Months Before Leaders Did
Source: No machine-readable author provided. Yassie assumed . / Wikimedia Commons. Cary town staff fielded questions in 2025 about whether local zoning would allow a facility tied to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but members of the town council say they only recently found out those conversations happened. The revelations center on a stretch of correspondence between town planners, a local real estate broker, and a federal employee working to secure office space — all of it unfolding without the full council's knowledge, according to the Raleigh News & Observer.
Axios Raleigh
Tidal plans 20-story tower in downtown Raleigh following completion of Hotel Indigo
Tidal Real Estate Partners, the New York developer that just completed a $36 million renovation of the former Holiday Inn, isn't slowing down its work in downtown Raleigh. Why it matters: The real estate company plans to break ground as soon as the next 60 days on a 20-story tower at 521 S. Wilmington St. , Tidal's CEO Mick Walsdorf told Axios. Tidal, which owns land across three separate areas in downtown, is betting big on downtown's momentum growing over the next decade, he said. Driving the news: Tidal, which operates in New York and other Southeastern cities, entered the Raleigh market in 2021, splashing large sums on the former Holiday Inn, land near CAM Raleigh in the Warehouse District and the Lincoln Theatre on Wilmington Street. The company originally planned to demolish the circular Holiday Inn before changing its mind and renovating it into a swanky Hotel Indigo. "It wasn't the original plan, but it probably should've been," Walsdorf said. The big picture: Walsdorf said that getting any project over the line is always complicated, especially when interest rates have remained stubbornly high. But Tidal sees downtown Raleigh's momentum taking off as more projects get completed. "What we believed