Cheryl and Stephen Kegg first moved to Windsor Circle beside Carolina North Forest in 1978. It wasn’t until around 2007, almost 30 years later, that they heard the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill might be developing something in their neck of the woods.
“We’d go to these relatively fancy meetings, and there’d be hors d’oeuvres and then these guys in suits would get up, and they had pointers and charts,” Stephen Kegg said. “And then all of a sudden it just all went away.”
In the wake of the 2008 economic recession, a proposal to develop a mixed-use research and academic campus in the area stalled. But in January, UNC-Chapel Hill announced it would revisit the project, this time as a 250-acre satellite campus located 1.6 miles from the main campus…