Z21-16 Community Meeting SummaryKFJ Development Group
The Villages at Battleship Pointe Community Meeting
The community meeting was held on September 29,2021 at 1001 Military Cutoff Road, Wilmington NC.
The public in attendance totaled 24 indviduals
A brief video of the development site was shown, by Kirk Pugh, Director of Marketing, along with
multiple poster sized exhibits of the current conditions on the site and renderings of the proposed
development.
The meeting was opened by Mr. James Lea, esq. who reviewed his 40-year history in Wilmington and
how the area has grown and matured. He talked about the downtown waterfront and the new
development to the north as great examples of the forward thinking of both the city and county leaders.
This was then followed by a presentation by Frank Pasquale, Technical Director of KFJ Development
Group, who provided a guide as to the riverfront situation on the site and the developments group
commitment to cleaning up the shorelines on both the Cape Fear River and the Cape Fear Rivers
Northeast Extension. The floor was then opened to questions the majority of which focused on the
development and cleanup schedule as well as financing of the project. One person mentioned that this
area has been the focus of development plans in the past whereby Mr. Pasquale explained that the
areas of concern from those past attempts have been mitigated by the growth in the region and the
expansion of potable water and sewer service to the west side of the river as well as the NCDOT’s
current plan to remove the traffic light at the base of the Holmes bridge. Several positive comments
were made by the public that cleaning up the riverfront is a priority for them and supported the project
as the mechanism to provide a clean natural shoreline while bringing the additional housing the
Wilmington metroplex so desperately needs. The question of Affordable Housing was raised and the
public was made aware that KFJ Development Group has a longer term plan for bring Affordable or
Workforce Housing to the west side of the river.
A variety of handouts explaining the scope and features of the project were provided for the public as
well as a sampling of the conceptual design to date.
The meeting lasted approximately 45 minutes.