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WARREN & ASSOCIATES <br />Warren & Associates was retained by LandDesign, Inc. to conduct a market analysis for the <br />Harrisburg Area Plan in Cabarrus County. This analysis documents existing conditions from a <br />demographic and real estate market perspective. The scope for this assignment included: <br />• Interview key stakeholders, including Cabarrus County and Town of Harrisburg staff and <br />local real estate /development professionals <br />• Analyze demographic and employment trends <br />• Analyze real estate market trends and development activity <br />• Forecast supportable residential units through 2020 <br />• Forecast supportable retail and office square footage through 2020 <br />• Forecast supportable industrial acreage through 2020 <br />• Recommend competitive locations for each land use type, including mixed -use <br />The Harrisburg Planning Area is approximately 17,000 acres or 26 square miles in size, and <br />consists of the Town of Harrisburg and unincorporated Cabarrus County land (Map 1). The area <br />encompasses numerous satellite annexations for the Town of Harrisburg. The Planning Area is <br />generally bounded by Mecklenburg County to the west, Rocky River and Lower Rocky River <br />Road to the east and south, and the Harrisburg jurisdictional boundary to the north. <br />The primary arterial in the Planning Area is NC -49, a four -lane highway, which runs east to west <br />through the Town of Harrisburg. The most notable north -south routes in the Planning area are <br />Morehead Street, between NC -49 and US -29, and Robinson Church Road, running south to <br />Rocky River Road. A Norfolk Southern rail line runs along NC -49 through the Town. <br />The Planning Area is predominantly suburban -rural in nature. Commercial and industrial uses <br />are primarily located along NC -49 in the northern portion of the Planning Area. <br />March 2010 APPENDIX D: HALUP MARKET ANALYSIS 1 <br />AUGUST 2010 <br />Attachment number 2 <br />G -1 Page 410 <br />