RTP 3.0 Is Here. What Changes in South Durham?

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This is the first installment in a three-part Southpoint Access series about RTP 3.0 and its potential effect on South Durham.

Research Triangle Park occupies thousands of acres between South Durham and Wake County.

Its traffic reaches N.C. Highway 54, Davis Drive, Cornwallis Road, T.W. Alexander Drive, Interstate 40, and Interstate 885. Many South Durham residents work there, travel through it, or visit restaurants and public spaces at Hub RTP.

For most of its 67-year history, RTP has operated primarily as a collection of research and corporate campuses. Offices and laboratories sit on large properties separated by trees, parking lots, and wide roads.

RTP 3.0 gives landowners more development options.