455-unit housing complex proposed for Ballantyne
Crescent Communities plans for 'Novel Ballantyne' development off Johnson Road
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Development at Johnston and Marvin roads is the latest big residential development in the area
Crescent Communities is planning a mix of 455 apartments and townhomes on Johnson Road in Ballantyne — the latest in a string of recent big residential complexes envisioned for the area.
According to documents filed with the city on Tuesday, Crescent is seeking a rezoning for a 19-acre parcel behind Grace Christian Center on the corner of Johnston and Marvin roads. That’s across the street from a new hospital that Novant Health plans to break ground on in the next few months.
The land Crescent hopes to turn into apartments is owned by Novant and is zoned for office use (O-2). Crescent would like it to be zoned for urban residential use (UR-2).
The plans filed with the city call for 395 apartments — of which 70 would be designed as affordable senior living — plus 60 townhomes in a development called Novel Ballantyne. The site plan calls for four buildings with a maximum height of 75 feet. It would have entrances on Johnson and Marvin roads, as well as nearby Ballancroft Parkway, and back up to an apartment complex, Bexley Crossing at Providence.
A Crescent spokesman was unable to discuss the development on Tuesday.
A development of this size could stir some opposition in Ballantyne, where worries about school overcrowding and traffic congestion regularly surface when new residential projects are proposed.
A developer withdrew plans this summer for 164 townhouses off Blakeney Heath Road, behind Community House Middle School, after neighbors objected. A plan to redevelop the golf course by the Ballantyne hotel and build 2,000 apartments, 300 townhouses plus retail and office space in two phases — “Ballantyne Reimagined” — was approved in June over minimal opposition.
Crescent is being represented by law firm Alexander Ricks. —TM
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