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• Wholesale Trade (both durable and non-durable goods) • Retail Trade, including restaurants and service stations • Financial institutions, insurance agents and real estate agents • Personal Services • Professional services Development is expected to be small-scale, one to two floors, and to generally blend in with the architecture along Route 70 on both sides of the county line. Hillsborough EDD Following the pattern of the Waterstone project, we expect development within the Hillsborough EDD to continue as mixed-use development, with single and multi-family housing co-existing near retail, office, and institutional uses. Retail will include big box and locally-owned businesses, movie theatres, restaurants, and hotel/conference facilities. Offices will include large Class Amulti-story buildings featuring a mix of tenant businesses (including research and development for the targeted industries described above) and linear one-story office buildings featuring personal and professional services, and finance, insurance and real estate businesses. Hillsborough is already home to several large call-center oriented businesses (A Southern Season, PHE, Sports Endeavors); we should build on the existing cluster, targeting financial services as well as other consumer goods centers. Another logical extension would be to add to the informal food cluster that is developing at the Hillsborough Business Center with the Weaver Street "Food House" and a coffee roaster. We should attempt to attract other relatively small- scale food preparation and storage operations serving the high-end specialty restaurants in the region. The office spaces should target UNC spin-offs, graduates of the incubator programs at Carolina North, and other research and development facilities that do not require close proximity to RTP. As Wake and Durham Counties are running out of large parcels of land, Hillsborough and Buckhorn will become more attractive. Buckhorn EDD Given the development of the Gravelly Hill Middle School and the West Ten Soccer Complex in the southern part of the Buckhorn EDD, we are proposing less industrial uses for the land along West Ten Road. We recommend destination or clustered retail for the large parcel fronting Buckhorn Road, with a mix of uses to include restaurants, a hotel, and small and large retail. An example of destination retail would be Bass Pro Shop or Ikea; an example of clustered retail would be home furnishings or auto dealers. We suggest exploring an open-air farmers market/ festival marketplace east of the soccer complex, possibly combined with a park and ride lot serving east-west transit. On the north side of Interstate 40/85 (which has rail access), we suggest awarehouse/distribution center on the western edge, moving to heavier industrial uses to the east, to the existing building at Redmond Crossing currently under contract to a custom millwork manufacturer. Possible targets for the distribution center would be big box retailers and parcel delivery services.