The Sanford-Lee County Planning Department will consider a plan for a large commercial project next to Walmart on N.C. 87 South, as well as plans for five residential subdivisions in Lee County, at its meeting later this month.
The commercial project, known as Adams Village, would sit on 32 acres and include two anchor buildings consisting of more than 200,000 square feet of retail space, a fuel center and four commercial outparcels.
The tenants for the parcels are “to be determined,” according to the TRC application. The acreage is currently zoned residential, meaning a rezoning will be necessary for the project to move forward if approved.
The submission packet for Adams Village includes example photos of what the storefronts may look like.
The TRC is comprised of local officials from various city and county government entities and meets monthly to review commercial projects and major subdivisions for compliance with the codes and policies of various local departments. TRC approval of a project – or even submission of a proposal for consideration – is not a concrete indicator that the project will happen; the TRC only looks at whether proposals meet city, county and state requirements.
Aside from Adams Village, there are five housing subdivision proposals on the TRC agenda for June.
They include:
*Midtown Village East, a mixed development of 419 townhomes, multi-family, single family attached, and single family detached homes on 150 acres with frontage on Lower Moncure Road.
The project is a resubmittal of a portion of the larger Midtown Subdivision that has been under consideration since at least 2022, and includes amenities such as a disc golf course, a swimming pool, a pocket park, a pet park, walking trails, and more. Additionally, the proposal includes 118,000 square feet of commercial space, with potential uses on the drawings listed as craft breweries, health care clinics, shopping, and more.
“Midtown Village East was designed to create the type of balanced neighborhood where future residents can enjoy an enhanced ‘live, work and play’ experience, within this new proposed addition to the overall north Sanford community,” Tim Dubois, vice president of marketing for the ownership group on the property told The Rant.
*The Broadway 87 subdivision, which would include 52 units on 87-plus acres along Thomas Kelly Road in Broadway. Lots would have an average size of 45,266 square feet.
*Jackson Heights, a project of Brick Capital Community Development Corporation, which would include 25 homes with a minimum lot size of 9,000 square feet on nine-plus acres between Fifteenth Street, Sixteenth Street, and Seventeenth Street in east Sanford.
*An unnamed Washington Avenue subdivision, another Brick Capital CDC project which would include 48 single family units and 16 multi family units on 16.93 acres on Washington Avenue between Garden Street and Fields Drive.
*The 1017 Deep River subdivision, which would include 223 units on 51-plus acres along Deep River Road near the intersection with Womack Road.
This is so stupid. Infrastructure can’t support this . Have you seen Horner? It’s going to be a gigantic mess of low cost housing .
What infrastructure is missing?
The budget the commission is arguing over now argues it cannot support our schools now…. good grief. Hwy 1 and Horner will be crammed!
Everywhere you look, there are apts/townhomes going up, this is too much !!
Building all these homes with all the new homes that have already been built , the schools are already crowded
If the schools are so crowded why is the average daily attendance 1,000 students less today than 10 years ago – per the Lee County Annual Financial Report.
Reports vs reality. Let’s see if we have the teachers to staff the school. Teachers get paid more out of this county.
Lee County as well as the city have proven they have no consideration for our communities what so ever.
Our elected leaders need to step back and take a long look at what is being done. They need take care of what is here and how they can improve what is already needed.
It all makes me wonder how many hands are in these deals that are not public knowledge.
If the county has grown 8K and the schools at the same time have lost 1K what do you think the County is doing wrong? Are you asking the County to fund private religious schools?
You do know those private religious schools do get funding from the county, right? Although it may not be a large amount, those schools are provided a budget by the county.
What is wrong is some of the public money from taxpayers is being sent to private schools via vouchers. That equates to less money being available for public schools.
If you want your kid to go to a private religious school, that’s your choice. You or your church should pay for that.
I’m not a fan of public schools being denied funds because it’s being spent at a private school.
I’m not a fan of public schools, tax dollars maybe should not go to education. Years ago in the 1800 maybe there was a reason but not today. Parents should take response of teaching their children or don’t have children.
Stonewall – This single comment alone tells me you are a MAGA republican.
you are right, am not a communist, Democrat.
Where is the line item for religous schools in the County Budget? Here is where Grace makes all it’s kids apply for State money. https://www.wunc.org/education/2025-06-19/nc-vouchers-opportunity-scholarships-private-schools-raise-tuition
We need a home depot and better restaurants… not more houses.
Without far more houses you will get nothing new.
People living in Lee County don’t seem to understand how small Sanford and Lee County is compared to areas that have the amenities they desire.
Sanford has a population of 32K and Lee County just 67K.
Apex alone has 73K and next door Cary has 180K. Fuquay and Holly Spring together have 92K. Chapel Hill and Carrboro have 83K people.
But let’s get more granular. There are still two towns in Lee County – Sanford and Jonesboro. They both have an older downtown area and both have a suburban commercial strip area. There is no common central area. That means Sanford will grow a third commercial node somewhere between Colon Road and Moncure but how does that commercial node out perform Apex?
When todays politicians get a larger tax base they get real excited and raise all our taxes including those on a fixed income which politicians don’t seem to care much about except during voting time. They start giving everybody more money, the teacher, the police, the public charities, any new promised big business etc.