In one corner, weighing in with about a dozen vendors and a dedicated bluegrass band is The Market at The Factory on South Main Street near Rogers Road. While on the other side of town on South White Street in the municipal parking lot with the gazebo is the established Wake Forest Farmers' Market, with 22 vendors.

Gayle Hoover, with the Wake Forest Farmers Market, said that she hopes that both markets will boom and wishes her neighbors no ill will.

"We're not looking at it as a cut-throat deal," she said.

The two markets will duke it out going into the summer. Wake Forest Farmers' Market will be open from 8 a.m. to noon every Saturday starting tomorrow through the last weekend in October.

The Market at The Factory opened in late April.

Visit www.wakeforestmarket.org. for more information about the Wake Forest Farmers' Market. For more info about The Market at the Factory, visit: www.eatshopplay.com/events/ marketabout.php

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Harry the Dragon and his buddies over at Harris Teeter corporate couldn't light the fires of The North Community Citizens Advisory Council with a proposal to build a 60,000-square-foot grocery store at Colonnade Office Center.

The council voted 13 to 9 to disapprove the grocery, which was part of an effort by center owners Spectrum Properties to transform Colonnade Office Center into a mixed-use destination. The 30-acre center at Six Forks and Strickland roads has 125,000 square feet of office space.

Tom Slater, North C.A.C. president, said members were concerned about traffic issues and wanted assurances that proposed apartments would be built near the site.

Harris Teeter will get another shot when their case goes to the planning commission.

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From the makeover file: the completion to the facade of the Texaco at the Quail Corners Shopping Center on the corner of Millbrook and Falls of the Neuse roads will mark the end of the revitalization process to make the collection of stores more presentable.

Some tenants of note: Andy's Pizza, Roberto Jewelers, The Percolator Lounge.