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CHATHAM MAGAZINE
FEBRUARY / MARCH 2021
The building to the left of the Justice Motor Company building is set to be demolished and in its place will be an outdoor patio of about 6,000 square feet.
from 39 West St. to 56 Sanford Rd. By the end of this year, the entire 30,000-squarefoot complex is expected to include two separate performance stages, three outdoor dining spaces, multiple restaurants, businesses and a rooftop bar. Despite the upheavals of 2020, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, local developers and municipal leaders have reasons to be more optimistic in 2021: • Businesses are adapting. Restaurants are moving away from indoor dining to takeout or delivery service. Essential and non-essential employees are switching from faceto-face meetings to virtual platforms like Zoom or Cisco Webex. • Mass migrations are shifting demographics from urban to suburban. More people are moving to North Carolina than ever before, according to data from moving company United Van Lines and Unacast, a New York-based data mining company. • Relief programs and vaccines are more widely available. By the time you’re reading this, vaccinations will be offered to people younger than 75 and workers beyond the health care industry. Relief programs, such as PPP, EIDL, CARES and HOPE, are likely to continue offering support to those most in need. “There’s a great deal of potential here in this county,” says Susan Keller of Rampart Property Management, a Sanford-based company managing Sanctuary at Powell Place, a $32 million development that offers Chatham County’s first market-rate apartments in many years. The first phase of the apartments became available in May