Monroe City Council has given the green light to Monroe Village, a sprawling mixed-use development from Pappas Properties that will bring a new grocery store, hundreds of homes, and transportation improvements to the city. The project pairs retail and housing with open space and recreational amenities, marking one of the more ambitious development proposals to clear Monroe's council chambers in recent memory.
Pappas Properties received approval from the Monroe City Council for Monroe Village, according to Connect CRE. The outlet reports the development is slated to include a new national grocery store, a mix of housing options, and major transportation and roadway improvements. Harris Teeter is planned to be the center's grocery anchor, per the same report, giving shoppers in the area a familiar name to look for once the project takes shape.
What's Planned for the Retail Core
Beyond the grocery store, the retail village is designed to include shops and restaurants, banks, professional and medical offices, and a gathering area, the outlet notes. That combination suggests Pappas Properties is aiming for a town-center feel rather than a standalone shopping strip, stitching commercial uses together with a communal space meant to draw foot traffic throughout the day.
Hundreds of New Homes Across Several Formats
The housing side of Monroe Village is substantial. Plans call for 340 multifamily units, including 128 garden apartments, 89 townhomes, 123 attached homes, and some detached single-family, for-sale homes, according to the report. That spread of housing types, from rental apartments to for-sale single-family homes, points to a development aimed at a wide range of buyers and renters rather than a single market segment.
Recreational amenities round out the residential offerings. The plan includes 70 acres of open space, a dog park, a fitness center, a pool, a pickleball or tennis court, a bike repair station, and a putting green, the same report states. Pappas has agreed to spend $5 million for transportation and roadway improvements as part of the approval, a commitment that signals the scale of infrastructure work the city expects alongside the new development.
Conflicting Acreage Figures and a Tabled Hearing
Exactly how much land the project covers is unclear from public records. A Yahoo report describes the developers as requesting annexation and planned unit development rezoning for 172 acres along Weddington Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, while a Monroe city notice identifies the acreage for the Monroe Village annexation hearing as 150.2507 acres. The two figures have not been reconciled in available records, and it is not clear whether they describe the same boundary or different portions of the overall site.
Separately, the city notice shows that a public hearing on the annexation, originally scheduled for Oct. 13, 2026, was tabled without further advertising to the council's regular meeting on Nov. 10, 2026. That procedural step is documented in the same city notice and reflects part of the broader approval process surrounding the project, distinct from the mixed-use plan details reported elsewhere.
Pappas Properties' Broader Pipeline
Monroe Village isn't the only large project on Pappas Properties' plate. The firm also received a 5-2 recommendation from the Mooresville Planning Board in 2024 to approve rezoning for a 98-acre site at 1740 Mecklenburg Highway, according to Iredell EDC. That proposed Mooresville Village project would include up to 625 residential units and 279,000 square feet of commercial space, the outlet reports, with Mooresville's board of commissioners holding final authority on the matter.
