Carraway Village is growing. Here’s the Chapel Hill community’s newest addition.
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- UNC Health will build a 20,000 sq ft imaging facility at Carraway Village, due early 2027.
- Center will offer CT, MRI and breast exams to expand diagnostic access in Orange County.
- Project completes Carraway Village east; stormwater pond and drive‑through lots persist.
UNC patients could have another option soon for getting CT scans, MRIs and breast exams just off Interstate 40 in Chapel Hill.
UNC Health is building a 20,000-square-foot medical office building at Carraway Village on Eubanks Road, spokesman Alan Wolf said. The building will include a diagnostic imaging center on the first floor and a breast imaging center on the top floor.
It will sit between a stream buffer and the Interstate 40 off-ramp, next to the recently opened Wendy’s restaurant. A stormwater pond behind the building will help contain and slowly release stormwater downstream.
Wolf said the new facility will “improve access and care for patients in Orange County and beyond,” and it could open in early 2027.
The building also marks the final project for the eastern edge of Carraway Village, where developer Northwood Ravin has leased four lots for freestanding buildings with drive-through windows.
Starbucks, Chick-fil-A and a UNC Family Medicine office were the first to open in 2020, followed by Wendy’s, which opened in July. A four-story, 93,000-square-foot Public Storage building was also added, and a Chase Bank with a drive-up ATM and banking windows is under construction.
Potential tenants for a fifth site with a drive-through have not been announced.
Apartments built, but commercial lags
At full buildout, the town expected the $100 million Carraway Village project to add up to 935,290 square feet of apartments, retail, offices and hotel rooms to the site, which had remained largely undeveloped for decades.
Commercial tenants have been slow to sign leases, project officials have said, but the residential buildings — 780 apartments and townhouses — are complete or in progress.
That includes 170 townhouses and apartments on a 19-acre lot next to the original development site. The council approved that project at 115 Chapel Point Road in October.
This year, the seven-story, luxury Tower building opened with a rooftop bar, amenity decks, and an onsite cafe and barista, all of which are open only to residents.
Adam Golden, Northwood Ravin vice president of development, said the community also has co-working offices, two pickleball courts, a volleyball court, a 1-acre dog park, and a large, landscaped green space for activities and events.
On the property’s eastern edge, adjacent to the Chapel Hill Transit park-and-ride lot, the nonprofit N.C. Tar Heels Ice Hockey Booster Club has expressed interest in land for a 3,000-seat UNC-Chapel Hill Ice Hockey Club arena.
Another one-acre site near the proposed arena is reserved for up to 50 affordable housing units, town zoning administrator Corey Liles said. Northwood Ravin still has a few years to seek financing for the affordable housing. If financing is not secured, the town has the option of buying the land for the 2015 tax value.
