{"id":408248,"date":"2026-09-23T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408248\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T13:44:09","slug":"jacksonville-city-council-votes-to-annex-county-land-for-commercial-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408248\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville City Council votes to annex county land for commercial development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Jacksonville City Council has approved a plan to annex land along a busy highway to bring more business to the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">During last night\u2019s meeting, city council members voted to annex 8.5 acres of land sitting off Richlands Highway across from Yopp Road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The plot of land is empty, but city officials say they plan to use it for commercial development. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WITN spoke with Assistant City Manager Anthony Prinz, who mentioned drive-thru chain restaurants, a bank, and retail stores as possible businesses that could be built in the space. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Developers are also petitioning to bring four connected properties into city limits. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For the rest of Richlands Highway, the city is hoping redevelopment will continue, especially after a North Carolina Department of Transportation project at the corridor of highways 258, 53 and 24.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Prinz said the project would also upgrade the Richlands Highway and Yopp Road intersection into a full four-way traffic signal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">As for adding residential spaces, Prinz said that is something that could happen in the long term.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WITN. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, N.C. (WITN) &#8211; Jacksonville City Council has approved a plan to annex land along a busy highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[122158,162172,29606,116,162170,162169,4040,118,117,2468,7453,162171],"class_list":["post-408248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-acres","tag-assistant-city-manager-anthony-prinz","tag-commercial-development","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-annex","tag-jacksonville-businesses","tag-jacksonville-city-council","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-land","tag-meeting","tag-richlands-highway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}