Chapel Hill~Franklin st. and Columbia

 Places to Eat in Chapel Hill on Franklin Street

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The Carrboro Farmers Market is open on Saturdays all year long and also on Wednesdays during the summer. Often I have had clients tell me that they went to the market and were disappointed, there wasn’t much of anything there. There is a good reason for that!
North Carolina has a great climate but this isn’t southern California or Florida and the produce at the Carrboro Farmers Market is all local. In December there may only be some crafts, baked goods and bunches of collards and sweet potatoes. The last frost date when farmers can safely plant is mid April. Not too long after that the market starts to fill with wonderful color starting with light greens and peaking with reds,yellows,purples and oranges by mid August.

Many of the vendors have been selling their locally grown veggies for years and Saturday is a catch up day for them too. Carrboro and Chapel Hill are fairly small towns so it’s common to run into friends at every turn. The baby in the back pack or wagon will be running around munching on a cucumber before you know it.

Yum! Roasted peppers

What’s for dinner?
I always think I’ve bought too much at the farmers market when I’m making several trips to my car with baskets of beautiful veggies and flowers but it’s never the case. I always buy tomatoes, peppers, goat cheese, sourdough bread, basil, corn if it’s in and flowers. My husband likes the sausage and butter beans. The big fat blackberries are also a favorite. So now with a car full of delious things to eat, what’s for dinner?

Carrboro Farmers Market ~Dinner

A favorite farmers market dinner is to chop up different colors of heirloom tomatoes and mix with olive, oil, garlic, pepper flakes and goat cheese. Cook some whole wheat pasta and toss. Sometimes we can’t wait and just dip fresh sourdough bread in the mixture. It’s so good!

Don’t miss the Carrboro Farmers Market no matter what time of year!

Take a look at my video of the Carrboro Farmers Market in August

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I also have a section on new construction because I really think it’s a different business than resale homes and must be approached in a different way. Real estate is local so what is common in the Chapel Hill NC area may not be the same in your area of the country.

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Click on the map and notice the location of the star. If you were to put the point of a compass on the star and draw a 4 mile circle around the town you would have an approximate area of the school district and what many people consider the Town, although some of these areas are outside of the city limits or in Carrboro.

Franklin Street crosses Historic Airport Rd. (MLK Blvd) to the north and South Columbia to the South. We think of this as the center of town. Many people define Chapel Hill by the area within the Chapel Hill/Carrboro City School District.

Downtown Chapel Hill Neighborhoods

Westwood Franklin-Rosemary Historic Laurel Hills Gimghoul Historic

Tenney Circle Cameron-McCauley Historic Franklin Hills

Greenwood

The area around the star on the map is the University and downtown historic area. Chapel Hill is a university town and while we have some beautiful older homes most of the historic area homes are fairly simple compared to those in Southern towns that were formed because of business and manufacturing. Chapel Hill has three historic areas Franklin-Rosemary, Gimghoul, and Cameron-McCauley. Franklin Street generally has the highest priced homes in the historic areas ranging from the $800,000’s and up. Above is a home on Franklin Street on the market now for $1,900,000.

Westwood is a campus area located off South Columbia Street near the UNC Hospital. It has winding streets and wooded lots with an eclectic collection of homes built from the 1920′s to an occasional home on an infill lot today. Prices start at around $400,000 but sometimes a little rental cottage will come on the market for less.

Greenwood is bordered by 15-501 and hwy 54 and is just down the hill from UNC. The playwright Paul Green developed the neighborhood in the 1930′s as a special place with affordable homes for artists and intellectuals. The beautiful lots are at least an acre and wooded. Home prices have varied from the $300′s up to around $800,000. Recently a developer tore down an existing home and built a large new home that sold for over 1.8 million. This was a wake up call to the neighbors who had the town designate the area as a Neighborhood Conservation District to protect the neighborhood from mega sized homes and preserve the harmonious look of Greenwood.

South of Downtown

Southern Village

Hundred Oaks

The Reserve and Hunts Reserve These are the only neighborhoods in Chapel Hill with  OWSA water and sewer and lots of about an acre in size. Other large lot neighborhoods are in the county with well and septic.

Hunters Ridge Sun Forest Beechridge Laurel Hills

If you start at the center of town and continue down South Columbia Street past UNC you’ll cross Fordham Blvd. (some call it The Bypass) and the road name will change to 15-501 south. Southern Village will be just ahead on your right. Development started in the mid 90’s and has just finished so there are only resale homes for sale now. It’s a planned, new-old neighborhood with a combination of apartments, condos, town homes, single family homes priced from the $400’s and a retail area including restaurants, a movie theater, elementary school, church, day care and other retail and service businesses. It’s one of the most popular neighborhoods in town with one of the highest appreciation rates-about 12% a year.

East of Downtown Chapel Hill Neighborhoods

Meadowmont

Presque Isle-condo

Colony Woods

Colony Lake

The Oaks

Provendence Glen-condo The Oaks Finley Forest Pickard Oaks-town house

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