North Carolina Department of Transportation official Barry Moose presented the Chestnut Connector plan at the Stallings NC Real Estate on Monday July 28, 2008.  Moose proposes widening Stallings Rd. and Indian Trail Rd.  Moose’s proposal would cost approximately $17million to be called the Chestnut Connector.  The North Carolina Department of Transportation is looking for an idea for a new road to bypass Stallings and Indian Trail NC Homes for Sale to relieve traffic on both towns’ main streets.  Both groups of town leaders are fearful of what this could mean for there downtown NC real estate districts.  However, this would be a great improvement for the area and would increase the market for Charlotte North Carolina Homes for Sale in these two suburbs of Charlotte.

   The Chestnut Connector would connect U.S 74 to Old Monroe Rd. and run parallel to Stalling and Indian Trail roads.  The new road would be at least four lanes and would have very few driveways cut and it would relieve two overly congested roads.  Moose contains that this is the best alternative to widening the two towns’ main streets & separating those main streets with large medians. Barry Moose also says that by building the Chestnut Connector that there would be money left over to improve Stallings NC Homes for Sale and Indian Trail Real Estate market main streets and beautify their surrounding areas. 

 Indian Trail Town Coucil is not over excited about this idea and neither is Stallings Town Council.  Even though neither town are to receptive on the idea of the Chestnut Connector they are less pleased to hear about widening their main streets.  Indian Trail and Stalling have both expressed strongly their ideas to keep their main streets pricey streetscapes and have even gone as far as to put 20% of the cost of the project into their respective budgets to have input into the North Carolina Department of Transportation’s plan & road design.  Indian Trail envisions their main street widening as a three lane road.  Even with these ideas & contributions of funds, ultimately, the state has the final say so on the road design.  Mr. Moose says that the design will include a four lane road with bridges over rail road tracks and very few intersections for easy travel.  This new design has to guarantee the State of North Carolina that it will handle traffic for the next 25 to 30 years.

The new design could wipe out houses businesses, and commercial buildings.  The bridge design over the railroad tracks at Indian Trail Rd. could make it virtually impossible to get into Town Hall or to the already existent downtown district.  Although there are some negatives to this type of design Moose hopes that both towns warm up to his idea.  Otherwise, the N.C.D.O.T. will start looking for other ideas or the money will stay with the original widening ideas that will change the face of both towns main streets.