Developers buy 488 acres of pristine Chatham farmland for mixed use. Here’s the hitch.

Roughly 488 acres of farmland near Pittsboro is being earmarked for a a mixed-use community. Edward Holmes Jr.

Born and raised in Pittsboro, Edward Holmes Jr. grew up a close friend of the Reeves family, who owned a large dairy farm just outside town. As kids, he recalls, they spent long summer days playing in the fields and fishing in the pond.

Now, decades later, he’d like to develop the property into a mixed-use community spanning hundreds of acres in fast-growing Chatham County.

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