White Oak opens mixed-income townhomes in Cary near Apex line
White Oak’s 30-townhome campus on the Cary-Apex line reserves 15 homes for buyers at 80% of area median income, with prices in the mid-$400,000s.
A 30-unit townhome community on Dominion Crest Drive has opened on the Cary-Apex border, putting one of Wake County’s newest mixed-income housing bets inside a campus already tied to child care, health care and food assistance. The project is aimed at families who need to stay near work and schools, but it also tests how much relief a small development can really bring to the county’s affordability crunch.
The White Oak Townhomes sit at 4407 Dominion Crest Drive in Apex, just off the Cary line and within walking distance of the American Tobacco Trail, White Oak Elementary School and the Young Scholars of Cary daycare center. The homes are two-story units with three- and four-bedroom layouts measuring about 1,789 square feet. They are being sold in the mid-$400,000s, with monthly homeowners association fees of about $150.
Half the homes, 15 in all, are reserved for buyers earning 80% or less of area median income. Cary said it supported the project with a $1 million award and has invested about $3 million over several years in the broader White Oak campus, which was approved through rezoning in 2018. The town said the development advances both the Imagine Cary Community Plan and the Cary Housing Plan, and that it expands affordable homeownership opportunities in Cary at a time when teachers, first responders and other essential workers are being priced farther from the jobs they serve.
The White Oak campus now includes a Community Resource Center and childcare services, and Cary says it offers access to health care, childcare, food assistance, rental assistance, homebuyer counseling, youth programming and senior programming. The foundation also has a longer-term play in the works: a future $20 million, 60-unit independent-living center for residents 55 and older. That broader buildout suggests White Oak is trying to create a full neighborhood, not just a single housing project.
White Oak Foundation executive director the Rev. Charles R. Tyner Sr. said the opening marked a special moment for the organization and the wider community. Mayor Pro Tem Lori Bush said the development is "not only an investment in housing but in the long-term success and stability of the community." Council Member Sarika Bansal also attended the ceremony.
WithersRavenel said it has supported the White Oak vision since 2016, and the ribbon-cutting marked the completion of a project more than a decade in the making. White Oak Missionary Baptist Church and the White Oak Foundation have served families for more than 25 years through daycare, food pantries, medical clinics and senior services, turning this stretch near Apex into one of the clearest local examples of how mixed-income housing is being woven into a larger social services campus.
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