This past March the long anticipated Chatham Park YMCA, part of the YMCA of the Triangle, opened its doors in the new NOVI community of Chatham Park. Hear from Forrest Perry, Vice President of Operations with the YMCA of the Triangle, and Caitlin Gleissner, Executive Director of the Chatham Park YMCA. 

We discuss what this Y means to Chatham County, and Chatham Park, and how it will serve the community in more ways than just a place to swim and gym!

Recorded on April 15, 2025. 

https://www.ymcatriangle.org/locations/chatham-ymca

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Welcome to season 4 of the Chatham Park Podcast! In this episode we catch up with what is happening in the Gateway to Chatham Park.  We talk movie nights, concerts, markets, food, entertainment, living in Chatham Park, and also what 79 Degrees West is, and how community is being built in this development. We also hear about Northwood Landing across the street from MOSAIC

To donate or help with Chatham Cares, visit their website here:
https://www.chathamcares.org/

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www.mosaicatchathampark.com

On this episode of the Chatham Park Podcast, we are talking with Melissa Beard, Executive Director of the Chatham Outreach  Alliance, or CORA. Cora has been helping those in need in Chatham County since 1989 and today you will hear about what they are doing and more.  CORA’s ultimate goal is to build a community without hunger by collecting and purchasing healthy food for distribution though their food pantry, related programs, and network of local partners. 

Also joining this conversation is Jordan Cheney. Jordan does incredible work with branding and  marketing for Chatham Park and also helped organize this month’s food drive. 

If you happen to be listening to this episode after the food drive is over, fear not. CORA will take your help almost any day of the year. 

https://www.corafoodpantry.org/

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Non-Perishable Donations can be dropped off through November 20th at the Vineyards Sales and Information Center, 500 Vine Parkway, Pittsboro from 10-5 M-Saturday and 1-5 on Sunday. 

In this episode we learn all about Rotary, Rotary International, and the local Rotary Club here in Pittsboro, NC when we sit down and talk with Connolly Walker, the President of the Pittsboro Rotary Club.

The website of the Pittsboro Rotary:
https://www.rotaryofpittsboro.org/

The International Website of Rotary:
https://www.rotary.org/en

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A quick update about the 2023 Parade of Homes.

Links below:

https://triangleparade.com/about-the-parade

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mosaicatchathampark.com

https://www.ymcatriangle.org/chatham-park-ymca

https://www.uprightbuilders.com/

https://www.pulte.com/homes/north-carolina/raleigh/pittsboro/vineyards-at-chatham-park-210937

https://www.uptonandco.com/

https://www.davidweekleyhomes.com/new-homes/nc/raleigh-durham-chapel-hill/pittsboro/encore-at-chatham-park-villa-series

https://www.homesbydickerson.com/about-hbd

https://www.tripointehomes.com/find-your-home/nc/raleigh/?type=neighborhoods&cities=Pittsboro

https://prewittcustomhomes.com/

https://wagonerhomes.com/

http://www.walkerbuild.com/

https://www.garmanhomes.com/

Not since the announcement of Chatham Park as there been so much media buzz as when the YMCA announced that through a partnership with Preston Development Company, that a new state of the art YMCA facility was going to be built in Pittsboro, in the North Village Town Center of Chatham Park. 

We at Preston Development Company have a long history of building communities, and working with the YMCA has been a big part of that.

Today you will hear from Vanessa Jenkins, Executive Vice President of Preston Development, Chuck Smith, Landscape Architect and Vice President of Planning for Preston, and Kurt Pfeifer, Project Landscape Architect with WithersRavenel, and Forrest Perry, Regional Vice President of the YMCA of the Triangle. 

This interview is the full version of segments released on WCHL, and you can find those shorter clips on the WCHL website or catch them on their radio station if you are in the triangle area. 

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n this episode you will hear several of the segments of interviews produced for WCHL in Chapel Hill, NC with Tim Smith, Julian "Bubba" Rawl and Vanessa Jenkins from Preston Development Company. They discuss the retail and restaurants in Chatham Park, Affordable Housing, and Amenities. 

Special thanks to Art Chansky and his team for producing these spots. This is Part 2 of a series that are also available at https://chathampark.com/gallery/ and at WCHL's website. 

In this episode you will hear several of the segments of interviews produced for WCHL in Chapel Hill, NC with Tim Smith, Julian "Bubba" Rawl and Vanessa Jenkins from Preston Development Company. They discuss the how Tim and Bubba met, their relationship over the years, and how Chatham Park came to be.

Special thanks to Art Chansky and his team for producing these spots. This is Part 1 of a series that are also available at https://chathampark.com/gallery/ and at WCHL's website. 

In this episode we sit down with Wesley Hutchins and Jimmy Holland with McKim&Creed (https://www.mckimcreed.com/) and Vanessa Jenkins and Jake Smith with Preston Development Company (https://www.prestondev.com/) and discuss our Water Recovery Center, which recently won several awards.
First was the 2022 Cleantech Innovation award for our impact on Water. This was awarded by the Research Triangle Cleantech Cluster, or the RTCC. The RTCC is working to help create sustainable communities through clean tech innovation and adoption. (https://www.researchtrianglecleantech.org/)

We also received 2 awards from the American Council of Engineering Companies of North Carolina. The first is their 2023 Grand Award for Engineering Excellence in the Water and Environment category, 

and then we were surprised to learn we won the Henry A Stikes 2023 Grand Conceptor Award, which is the top award for all the projects that were recognized. 
(https://www.acecnc.org/)

Congratulations to all the folks that have worked on this project and made it possible, and to Tim Smith and Bubba Rawl who created the vision and have pushed to have this innovative technology incorporated into Chatham Park in Pittsboro.
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In this episode we learn about the new Paddles Swim & Pickleball club in Chatham Park in Pittsboro North Carolina, and interview Jackson Bowen of tennisbloc, who gives a great overview of the sport of Pickleball and why it is so popular. 

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