Officials with the YMCA of Southeastern North Carolina hope to begin expanding the Y's midtown location this year, possibly by this summer, in a project that would include a pool, expanded fitness center and the potential capacity to serve thousands more residents. The organization's president and CEO, Dick Jones, appeared before the Wilmington City Council on M ...

The Cape Fear Memorial Bridge replacement is one of more than a dozen infrastructure projects across North Carolina that’s seen a pause in federal grant funding. The Trump Administration issued an executive order in late February that resulted in a pause on discretionary grants from the U.S. Department of Transportation, including a $242 million grant for the repl ...

New Hanover County leaders will consider amending the county’s development agreement for Project Grace on Monday. The amendment would shift work and costs related to managing the "installation of museum exhibit infrastructure and oversight of exhibit installation" from the county to developer Cape Fear Development Partners LLC (CFD), according to agenda ...

Wilmington officials are taking steps to sell a city-owned portion of downtown’s River Place complex to developer East West Partners. The city plans to sell roughly 34,000 square feet of ground-floor commercial space, which East West Partners has leased from the city since 2018. The Wilmington City Council held a public hearing and voted unanimously on Tuesday to ...

The replacement effort for the aging Cape Fear Memorial Bridge will continue, officials said Wednesday, despite $242 million in federal funding now being up in the air for the transportation project, which is seeing its estimated cost grow to potentially $1 billion. “Although federal funding has been paused, we are still moving forward with our planning process,&r ...

At the end of February, most property owners in New Hanover County will receive notices that the tax value of their real property has significantly increased. Some residential and commercial properties will double or even triple in value. Counties across North Carolina are required to perform these property revaluations at least every eight years. New Hanover County choose ...

Recently, I took a morning off of work to spend time with my son, Luke Jr. We set out to visit multiple parks across Wilmington, enjoying one of those perfect 60-degree days that somehow feels like 75. I left my phone in the truck at each stop – calls could wait. We did it all: swings, slides, climbing, watching the trees sway in the breeze. We sat on a bench overloo ...

A pilot social district in the Brooklyn Arts District is closer to becoming a reality following a vote of support from the Wilmington City Council. The pilot program would allow people to buy an alcoholic drink at a participating establishment (not bring one from home) and consume it anywhere within the designated district. Local business owners and officials say the di ...

Nearly $38 million in state grants could help fund new water and wastewater infrastructure in parts of northern New Hanover County and at the county’s Blue Clay Business Park. The New Hanover County Board of Commissioners will consider resolutions accepting $29.1 million in state grant funding for the county’s Last Frontier infrastructure project and $8.8 mi ...

Wilmington officials confirmed on Friday that the city did not receive any upset bids for a downtown site being looked at for a grocery store. The Wilmington City Council voted unanimously at its meeting Dec. 3 to authorize the upset bid process for surplus city-owned properties at 305, 315 and 319 Chestnut St. after receiving a $1.7 million bid for the site. Submitt ...