One of Cary’s only affordable neighborhoods for working-class families is now empty of residents.
Ahead of the June 30 move-out deadline, 144 households—roughly 700 people—vacated Chatham Estates mobile home park.The property’s owner, Curtis Westbrook, who set the deadline back in December, plans to sell the downtown-adjacent property to Toll Brothers, a construction company, for $30 million.
When Westbrook announced his intent to sell in 2023, residents wondered where they would go. At Chatham Estates, they paid about $400 a month to rent the land beneath their mobile homes. But the median rent in Cary is more than five times that at $2,200. The median home price is $630,000…