SOUTHEASTERN N.C. — Scotts Hill, the region on the borderlands of New Hanover and Pender counties, has enticed another developer. The pocket of land is known as…
Mariposa, a new traditional Spanish tapas restaurant, will open in the old Love, Lydia bakery on 3rd and Greenfield streets this spring. (Port City Daily/Shea Carver)
WILMINGTON Spanish food is simple food. It’s also the food local chef Bobby Zimmerman is making the center of his new restaurant slated to open this spring. Conceived around traditional Spanish tapas, Mariposa will be the chef’s second restaurant in town; he opened True Blue Butcher and Table in the Forum in 2018.
“The support from the community has been overwhelming,” Zimmerman said, “especially during Covid. It has really humbled us, but also convinced me that the time to open a second restaurant is right.”
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New Hanover County is in a legal battle with the development team, Coswald and Tribute Companies. It’s over how a parcel of land in the northern part of the county is developed.
Each political season brings the question: What power does the county commission have when it comes to directing development? The answer is complicated, but at a recent agenda meeting on January 28th, 2021 Commissioner Jonathan Barfield addressed the new board members:
“The one thing I don’t want to see happen that the county gets sued. We’ve had several missteps in the past where we’ve got it wrong and developers had sued the county and won and built what they wanted to build.”
Northward of Fall Brook neighborhood, a stubbed road will eventually be connected to an adjoining development of 750 homes. The Pender County Board of Commissioners chairman lobbied the developers to keep traffic out of Fall Brook, at least for a time. (Port City Daily/Preston Lennon)
PENDER COUNTY A 35-house neighborhood is the sticking point for a 300-acre rezoning request, and the 750-home development to follow, in Pender County.
While most large Pender County developments in recent years have been placed along the U.S. Highway 17 corridor, this project which was considered at a Jan. 19 board of commissioners meeting but tabled until the applicants produce a revised traffic impact analysis is situated in Rocky Point, a town with approximately 1,700 residents.