Building boom underway in Cape Region
There is no doubt a building boom is taking place in the Cape Region with commercial and residential projects. Under construction or approved are subdivisions and other housing projects with more than 4,200 units or lots as well as projects with 372 apartments.
Nine area projects with more than 1,500 lots or units have either been reviewed by the Office of State Planning Coordination's Preliminary Land Use Service over the past three years or are pending action by Sussex County officials.
If all of the proposed subdivisions and apartment complexes are built, more than 6,000 units could be constructed in the the Lewes-Rehoboth Beach-Milton area over the next few years.
Commercial projects
Lefty's Alley and Eats, Dartmouth Drive, Lewes – open for business
Stockley Materials, Route 9, Belltown – site work started
Shell We Bounce, Route 9, Belltown – site work started
Waves Car Wash, Savannah Road, Lewes – open for business
Kaisey's Delights– Wescoats Road, Lewes, under construction with March opening
Sussex County Paramedics Medic Station 104, Plantation Road, near Rehoboth Beach – under construction with spring 2017 opening
Love Creek Elementary School, Route 24 – under construction with opening for 2017-18 school year
Delaware State Police Troop 7, Mulberry Knoll Road, Lewes – construction of 32,000-square-foot facility has not started
Gills Neck Village Center, Kings Highway/Gills Neck Road, Lewes, under 75,000-square-foot shopping center – rezoning approved by Sussex County Council
Fins' Big Oyster Brewery, Kings Highway, Lewes – site work started
Rehoboth City Hall, Rehoboth Avenue – construction underway with March completion
Dogfish Head brewpub, Rehoboth Avenue – construction underway with spring opening
Royal Farms, Route 1, Rehoboth Beach – Feb. 13 opening scheduled
Lewes Transit Center, Five Points – under construction with May opening planned
Meadery microbrewery, Route 9, Lewes – under construction
Bluecoast Seafood Grill and Raw Bar, Rehoboth Gateway, Route 1 – opening summer 2017
Ocean One, 3,100-square-foot center, 1 Savannah Road near Wescoats Corner, Lewes – under construction
Starbucks, Route 1, Rehoboth Beach – open for business
Retail office complex, Route 1, near Wolfe Neck Road intersection, Rehoboth Beach – under construction, future home of Rosenfeld's Jewish Deli and Beef Jerky Outlet
Plantation Road Professional Park, Plantation Road, Rehoboth Beach, 9,400-square-foot office complex – construction completed
Housing projects under construction
Lewes Crossing, Beaver Dam Road, Lewes, 234 units in two separate projects on 108 acres – under construction
Coastal Club, Beaver Dam Road, 630 units on 360 acres – under construction
Showfield, Gills Neck Road, Lewes, 166 single-family lots on 132 acres – under construction
The Farm at Truitt Homestead, Shuttle Road, Rehoboth Beach, 90 single-family condos, aging in place, on 23 acres – site work started
The Grove at Carillon Woods, Long Neck, 204 senior apartments on 27 acres – site work started
Redden Ridge, Old Landing Road, Rehoboth Beach, 85 single-family lots on 35 acres – under construction
Pelican Point, Indian Mission Road near Long Neck, 177 lots on 89 acres – under construction
Independence, Indian Mission Road near Long Neck – new phase under construction
Spring Breeze, Hollymount Road near Lewes, 235 lots on 140 acres – site work started
Mi-Place at the Vineyards, Route 9, Lewes, apartments – construction completed; project part of Vineyards community containing a mix of single-family homes, apartments, condominiums and retail
Villages at Red Mill Pond, Sweetbriar Road, Lewes – new phase under construction
Woods at Arnell Creek, Fairway Drive off Old Landing Road, Lewes – under construction
Sawgrass North, Old Landing Road, Lewes, 227 new lots – new phase under construction
The Woods at Stonewater, Indian Mission Road near Long Neck, 73 lots – under construction
Springtown Farms, Coolspring Road, Milton, 41 lots – under construction
Bayfront at Rehoboth, Camp Arrowhead Road, Lewes, 180 lots – new phase under construction
Meadows of Beaver Creek, Riverwalk Drive, Milton – Phase 3 under construction
Approved subdivisions/housing projects
Burton’s Pond, Route 24/Hollymount Road near Long Neck, 265 single-family lots on 159 acres
Dellwood Estates, Beaver Dam Road, Lewes, 100 single-family lots on 70 acres
Arbor-Lyn, Warrington Road, Rehoboth Beach, 142 units on 35 acres
Governors, Gills Neck Road, Lewes, 472 units on 254 acres
Osprey Point, Old Landing Road, Rehoboth Beach, 217 single-family lots on 127 acres
Saddleridge, Route 24, 81 single-family lots on 37 acres
Tidewater Estates, Robinsonville Road, Lewes, 140 single-family lots
Belle Terre, Mulberry Knoll Road, Lewes, 269 single-family lots on 124 acres
Estates at Middle Creek, Angola Road, Lewes, 314 single-family lots on 147 acres
Reserves at Nassau, Phase 2, Route 1 and Tulip Drive, Lewes, 134 units on 37 acres
Old Orchard Ventures, Old Orchard Road, Lewes, 24 duplex units on 8 acres
Arbors at Cottagedale, Plantation Road, Lewes, 168 apartments on 18 acres
Deerbrook, Route 24/Autumn Road, Long Neck, 120 lots on 57 acres
Harbor Point, Park Road Lewes, 69 lots on 108 acres
Major projects approved
Cape Henlopen School District will embark on a $121 million – $48 million local share – project to renovate or replace its four existing elementary schools. That does not include the construction of the new Love Creek Elementary School set to open this coming school year. The work includes a new H.O. Brittingham school in Milton and a new Rehoboth Elementary School, and major renovations to the Lewes School and Milton Elementary. The existing Shields school will be torn down and students will move to the Lewes School.
Introduced
Sussex Consortium, Sweetbriar Road, Lewes, 66,000-square-foot school on 25 acres; awaiting county public hearings. State funding will cover the entire cost of the project.
Under PLUS review
Sweetbriar subdivision, Sweetbriar Road, 294 units on 137 acres
Two hotels on Route 1, Rehoboth Beach
Reviewed by PLUS
2014
Rehoboth Landing, Route 24, Rehoboth Beach, 160,000-square-foot shopping center
Love Creek Bridge Marina, Route 24, Lewes, 75 townhomes
Lewes-Rehoboth Townhouses, Shady Lane/Plantation Road, 53 townhomes on 65 acres
2015
The Ash Lyn, Williams Farm Road/Reynolds Road, Milton, 268 lots on 81 acres
Riverside Plaza, Route 24/Oak Orchard Road, Long Neck, 144 townhomes on 21 acres
Peninsula Square, Route 24 and Autumn Road, Long Neck, 288 multifamily units and 217,800 square feet commercial space on 30 acres
2016
Newdale Acres, South Old State Road, Ellendale, 296 lots on 141 acres
Pending planning and zoning and county council hearings; conditional-use approval required for all of the following proposed zoning ordinances:
Therapy and fitness center on 6-acre parcel, 1523 Savannah Road, Lewes
Burton's Pond, Section 2, 100 townhomes on 31 acres, Route 24/Hollymount Road near Long Neck
Expansion of existing Delmarva Power & Light substation on 2.5-acre parcel, Route 1 near Dartmouth Drive, Lewes
Twenty units of multifamily housing on 5-acre parcel, 18834 Munchy Branch Road, Rehoboth Beach
Pending
Rezoning of 114-acre parcel for Overbrook Town Center, Route 1, between Lewes and Milton. Denial appealed to Court of Chancery.
