While some aspects of the Chatham Park development in Pittsboro have been built for years, the details for upcoming projects are now being shared with the public. The town’s Board of Commissioners recently heard an annual update on the timeline and construction of key components belonging to the 8,500-acre master-planned community.
Between its North and South villages, Chatham Park will likely account for most of Pittsboro’s growth over the next 15 years. The 5,000-acre portion to the south is currently largely undeveloped, but seeks to be the more vibrant of the two with up to 15,000 housing units, research and development hubs, and activity centers. Its smaller, northern counterpart is currently home to mixed-use development and is an extension of Chatham Park’s wider ‘live, work, play’ philosophy.
Located north of U.S. Highway 64 Business, about a quarter of the approved nonresidential development for North Village is already built, and much of it expands MOSAIC’s commercial district and primarily includes grocery, retail, and restaurant space.
One of the more important projects in its nonresidential pipeline is a 750,000 square-foot medical expansion from UNC Health. According to Vice President of Planning and Development for Preston Development Company Chuck Smith, the space could be an economic anchor and just as significant for North Village as Disney’s Asteria development.
“If you look at any hospital development in the Triangle and the nonresidential development that occurs around that, it just goes on and on and on,” Smith said at a September 14 meeting. “It’s not just doctor’s offices trying to be located there, but it’s hotels, retail, all the things that are needed around a growing hospital. So this may be the most important thing we’ve got going on.”
Smith said the first house sales for the Storyliving by Disney neighborhood are planned for late next year. He described it as the northern portion’s key residential component, and the completed community aims to include a mix of single-family homes, condos, apartments, and some units reserved for adults 55+. For NoVi Village — the second largest neighborhood in the sector — Smith said concept plans for an additional mixed-use area are underway to complement its existing housing, parks, and 36,000 square-foot YMCA.
Attendees gather for the ribbon cutting ceremony at the new Chatham Park YMCA in March 2025. The facility has since become a popular draw to the area of Chatham Park. (Photo by Henry Taylor/Chapel Hill Media Group.)
So far, the Preston Development representative said, Chatham Park is ahead on meeting its affordability commitments, particularly near Chatham Parkway and U.S. 64 Business where 214 units of affordable and workforce housing are registered and another 338 are under construction. The first major residential development projects in South Village will start to take shape with the ongoing construction of Chatham Parkway. The total parkway, which will expand nearly seven miles, is targeting a June opening date for the southern portion and the first quarter of 2028 for the northern part.
“That entire distance within a year and a half, a little less than that, will entirely be open,” Smith said. “That’s going to be important for a number of reasons, not only for us, but I think traffic-wise downtown and other things related to that.”
It also means water and sewer will then be able to serve some parts of Chatham Park’s larger, southern portion, and Smith shared initial design plans for its first neighborhoods. One is a master-planned golf course community located at the heart of South Village, which was announced in further detail on Tuesday. It aims to provide 14,000 residential units, 325,000 square feet of nonresidential space, and a mixed-use village.
While homes have already been available to residents across North Village’s Vineyards, NoVi, and MOSAIC communities, Pittsboro’s Board of Commissioners only approved a small area plan for South Village last year. Smith said the first lots to come online there will belong to the Del Webb community, which features a clubhouse, pools, and pickleball courts in addition to its homes. About 2,100 units total will expand its two neighborhoods north and south of Chatham Parkway, each with separate amenities.
Smith said Del Webb will be more similar to Asteria in terms of having private recreational options. But for the rest of Chatham Park, he said the focus will be on community-driven amenities. Not only do they help keep homeowners-association costs down, but he said they are more meaningful for residents.
“The [YMCA] is starting to catch on as a concept because, again, it was a more equitable statement than providing things that only a certain group could be part of,” Smith said. “It’s starting to catch on around the country as we talk about it. So that’s where I’m talking [about how] we have been able to advocate for certain things that we would not have been able to if we’re doing 100 lot subdivisions.”
“Pittsboro is getting a name on the map,” Smith continued, adding how the YMCA has already exceeded more than 6,000 members. “Your people are interested in providing certain kinds of amenities and facilities here. Good things are happening. Sometimes it may not feel like that at the particular moment, but they are coming.”
The presentation concluded with a highlight of the master-planned community’s sustainability efforts and Climate Action Plan. Smith focused on the community’s planned greenway network, as well as methods for providing clean energy and conserving native flora and fauna. Especially when compared to urban developments similar in size, the VP of Planning and Development said he “strongly disagrees” with the public’s sentiment that Chatham Park is not doing enough when it comes to protecting the site’s biodiversity.
“This was obviously a lightning rod in many ways when we were talking about the small area plan,” Smith said. “Because there’s this perception that Chatham Park, the size of what we’re doing, is harmful to the climate.”
To view the full presentation to the Pittsboro Board of Commissioners, click here.
Featured photo via The Chatham News + Record.
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