Class A Office Space Coming to Garner

Garner is about to make a big splash in the Triangle’s Class A office space market.

The Town Council on Monday (Feb. 3) unanimously approved a project that will bring 300,000 square feet of Class A professional office space—with some limited retail and restaurant space—to an approximately 22-acre site at the southwest corner of East Garner and Jones Sausage roads. When the project’s three buildings—each 100,000 square feet—are completed, it will be the largest office park project in Garner’s history. The project has been named the Eastern Wake Innovation Park.

Garner is about to make a big splash in the Triangle’s Class A office space market.

The Town Council on Monday (Feb. 3) unanimously approved a project that will bring 300,000 square feet of Class A professional office space—with some limited retail and restaurant space—to an approximately 22-acre site at the southwest corner of East Garner and Jones Sausage roads. When the project’s three buildings—each 100,000 square feet—are completed, it will be the largest office park project in Garner’s history. The project has been named the Eastern Wake Innovation Park.

The project’s site location is nearly adjacent to White Oak Crossing shopping center off of U.S. 70 (and thus near the I-40/U.S. 70 interchange) and about a mile from the I-40/Jones Sausage Road interchange.

Garner officials see the office park serving as an attractive gateway to Garner’s historic downtown business district, which is undergoing a major revitalization that has included a thriving café and coffee roaster, a recently opened restaurant and bar, several local creative class businesses and a new recreation center that will open in the coming months.

“We see this location as particularly enticing to tenants,” Mayor Ken Marshburn said. “It offers convenient access from I-40 and U.S. 70, and it’s near White Oak and our historic downtown, which is an emerging hub for new businesses and for a variety of entertainment and recreation opportunities.”

Garner Economic Development Director Joe Stallings expects the project to enhance Garner’s profile in the region. “It will open up very promising opportunities for the recruitment of new businesses and the expansion of existing ones in Garner. It’s something Garner has never had, and it will change the way economic development prospects view us.”

The office park’s developers will add turn lanes on East Garner and Jones Sausage roads at intersections with the driveway entrances to the project. They also agreed to provide right of way for the future realignment of Jones Sausage Road from East Garner Road out to U.S. 70.

For more information about economic development opportunities in Garner, please contact Economic Development Director Joe Stallings at jstallings@garnernc.gov or at 919.773.4431.