Wakefield Crossing Shopping Center

Wakefield Crossing Shopping Center is a grocery-anchored shopping center located in Raleigh, North Carolina. The center contains a number of large and small businesses, including grocery stores, restaurants, and more. In February 2023, the shopping center was sold to the Washington, D.C.-based firm Granite Canyon Partners for US$14.3 million, and currently maintain the center.

History
The grocery-anchored shopping center was constructed in 2001, with a total area of 75927 sqft. Its location was ideal, being situated in the Raleigh submarket, within 30 miles of Research Triangle Park, UNC Chapel Hill, Duke University, NC State University, and the Raleigh-Durham International Airport. In the same year, a Food Lion would be built in the center, taking up about 50% of the gross leasable area and anchoring the center, followed by Tuesday Morning soon after.

On February 16, 2023, the center's second anchor store Tuesday Morning would announce its closure after its parent company filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. On February 28, 2023, the Blackstone Inc. real estate investment trust "Preferred Apartment Communities" sold the center through JLL for US$14.3 million to the Washington, D.C.-based firm Granite Canyon Partners would once again sell the center to Wakefield Wellons, LLC. At the time of the 2023 sale, some other larger tenants in the center included Subway, "Dante's Italiano", "Wakefield Tavern", "Wake Health Medical Group", "El Tapatio", and "D's Bottle Shop", and a McDonald's and "Town Hall Burger & Beer" in the outparcels. Annually, the center has an average of 791,000 visits per year.

List of businesses
Since the closure of Tuesday Morning, the center now only has two major businesses in the main parcels: being Food Lion and Subway, with a McDonald's and Exxon located in the outparcels.

The center also houses a number of small businesses, including "Amy Nails", with "ManeCave Barber Studio" in the outparcels. More notable small businesses are listed below.

D's Bottle Shop & Craft Beer College
D's Bottle Shop & Craft Beer College is a beer store and wine bar, specializing in craft beer. The establishment is owner and operated by Kelly and Nathan Kreel, with Nathan being a home brewer for twenty years before both founding the store. It hosts a collection of 400 brews from 140 brewers from a number of locations. The business occasionally hosts event nights, fundraisers, and celebrates a few winter holidays including Oktoberfest annually.



Dante's Italiano
Dante's Italiano is an Italian restaurant, serving New York-style Italian cuisine. The New York-native restaurant owner created the establishment out of his love for the type of cuisine. According to restaurant reviewer Robin Jarvis, the interior of the restaurant is described as "cozy", with its ambiance "part casual and part one-step-up, without becoming too formal". The establishment is known for its meatballs, pasta, pizza, salad, antipasti, calzones, and stromboli, and occasionally hosts live music and half-price wine nights.



Wakefield Tavern
Wakefield Tavern is a tavern founded in 2010 by the current owners Anthony and Joelle Scalese; it would only receive its certificate of incorporation about two years later on 20 November 2012.

The tavern serves a variety of food and drinks, being notable for their fried prawns, corned beef, cheesesteaks, and ice tea. It is open during brunch, lunch, and dinner hours, and holds weekly events: including live music, trivia nights, and 'Wine Wednesdays'. Annually, a fundraiser for breast cancer awareness is also held, in memory of two of the owners families members, and previously a Star Wars Day fundraiser and food drive.

Crime
While crime is often low in and around the center, non-insignificant crimes have taken place, including a double homicide in the parking lot in June 2020, and an armed robbery at the Subway in August 2023.