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• Construction offices <br />• Light manufacturing and assembly, including within multiple-tenant flex space <br />• Small-scare storage and warehousing <br />• Wholesale Trade {both durable and non-durable goods} <br />• Retail Trade, including restaurants and service stations <br />• Financial institutions, insurance agents and real estate agents <br />• Personal Services <br />• Professional services <br />Development is expected to be small-scale, one to two floors, and to generally blend in <br />with the architecture along Route 70 on both sides of the county line. <br />Hillsborough EDD <br />Fallowing the pattern of the Waterstone project, we expect development within the <br />Hillsborough EDD to continue as mixed-use development, with single and multi-family <br />housing co-existing near retail, office, and institutional uses. Retail will include big box <br />and locally-owned businesses, movie theatres, restaurants, and hotel/conference <br />facilities. Offices will include large Class Amulti-story buildings featuring a mix of tenant <br />businesses (including research and development for the targeted industries described <br />above} and linear one-story office buildings featuring personal and professional services, <br />and finance, insurance and real estate businesses. Hillsborough is already home to <br />several large call-center oriented businesses (A Southern Season, PHE, Sports <br />Endeavors); we should build on the existing cluster, targeting financial services as well <br />as other consumer goods centers. Another logical extension would be to add to the <br />informal food cluster that is developing at the Hillsborough Business Center with the <br />Weaver Street "Food House" and a coffee roaster. We should attempt to attract other <br />relatively small- scale food preparation and storage operations serving the high-end <br />specialty restaurants in the region. The office spaces should target UNC spin-offs, <br />graduates of the incubator programs at Carolina North, and other research and <br />development facilities that do not require close proximity to RTP. As Wake and Durham <br />Counties are running out of large parcels of land, Hillsborough and Buckhorn will <br />become more attractive. <br />Buckhorn EDD <br />Given the development of the Gravelly Hill Middle School and the West Ten Soccer <br />Complex in the southern part of the Buckhorn EDD, we are proposing less industrial <br />uses for the land along West Ten Road. We recommend destination or clustered retail <br />for the large parcel fronting Buckhorn Road, with a mix of uses to include restaurants, a <br />hotel, and small and large retail. An example of destination retail would be Bass Pro <br />Shop or Ikea; an example of clustered retail would be home furnishings or auto dealers. <br />We suggest exploring an open-air farmers market! festival marketplace east of the <br />soccer complex, possibly combined with a park and ride lot serving east-west transit. <br />On the north side of Interstate 40185 (which has rail access}, we suggest a <br />warehouse/distribution center on the western edge, moving to heavier industrial uses to <br />the east, to the existing building at Redmond Crossing currently under contract to a <br />custom millwork manufacturer. Possible targets for the distribution center would be big <br />box retailers and parcel delivery services. <br />Commissioner Gordan made reference to the criteria "Creates minimal impact on <br />the environment" and suggested changing the first bullet to, "Minimize use of water and <br />