What's the Scoop Ice Cream Cafe, a 1950s diner-themed ice cream store, is teaming up with the dance studio next door.

The product is a weekend sock hop for the over-40 crowd. What's the Scoop and the Academy for the Performing Arts will be open from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. while the scoopers sling the sherbet and strawberries. The locations are next to each other in Towne North Plaza on the corner of Creedmoor and Strickland roads.

For those into sweets and not sweat, a Colorado-based chocolate franchise is opening its third Triangle location, the second in Raleigh.

Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory plans to start construction at the end of this month next to Zyng's Asian Grill in Brier Creek Commons.

Rocky Mountain sells chocolate and candy apples made in- house or shipped in from the Colorado location.

The 1,100-square-foot location plans to open in mid-September. Brier Creek Commons is on the corner of Brier Creek Parkway and U.S. 70.

A roadside truck stand on the corner of Creedmoor and Sawmill roads wants to know if you want your butter beans shelled.

Creedmoor-based Lyon Farms Home Grown Produce sells fresh honeydew melon and preserves and takes butter bean orders.

Check out the corner from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday.

And there's yet another real estate dealer moving in on Six Forks Road.

Realty World First is located on 6512 Six Forks Road, Suite 301B. The firm handles residential real estate. Call 845-5151 for more information.