"This is probably the most significant project the town has undertaken in the last 25 years," Town Manager Brandon Zuidema told The Line in January, talking about the Morrisville Town Center. Ten months later, the project's biggest effect on a December weekend is easy to see. The Saturday farmers market, the Christmas tree lighting and a holiday craft fair are all being held at one small park at 101 Town Hall Drive. Next door, behind the construction fence, is the green that is supposed to host them later on.
Indian Creek Trailhead Park is filling in for the Town Green this season. The park works well for it. Getting to it, with Foxglove Drive closed and Carolina Street torn up, is the part that takes some planning.
How a trailhead became the town's gathering spot
The Western Wake Farmers Market used to run at the Healthy Food Hub, 280 Town Hall Drive. That site turned out to be ground zero for Phase 1 of the Town Center. The market moved down the street to 101 Town Hall Drive in April 2025 and said at the time that the park would be its home for at least three years. The market's own visit page says it will stay at the trailhead for the rest of construction and then become part of the new Town Center park once Phase 1 is finished.
The park has what a winter crowd needs. The market lists an enclosed playground, covered seating and climate-controlled bathrooms. The Education Garden sits next to the Indian Creek Greenway pond. That is a lot packed into a trailhead lot, and it explains why the town is holding its tree lighting there too. The Christmas Tree Lighting is listed at Indian Creek Trailhead, 101 Town Hall Drive, on Friday, Dec. 4.
So a December visit to this park is a small preview of the Town Green. Both have greenway access, a garden, a play area and a market, set beside the library and Town Hall. The fence holds the larger, permanent version.
The calendar at 101 Town Hall Drive, plus two stops nearby
The market runs Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon through November. Winter hours of 9:30 a.m. to noon start in December. Here is the season in order:
- Saturdays in November, 8 a.m. to noon. Regular markets at the trailhead. If you still have Halloween pumpkins on the porch, the market has set up a drop-off zone on the lawn near the Education Garden for the November and December markets. The pumpkins go to the animals at Coleman Girls Farm and Fickle Creek Farm, and they need to be unpainted and wax-free.
- Saturday, Nov. 21. The Thanksgiving Food Drive runs during regular market hours. Nonperishable donations go to Dorcas Ministries before the holiday. From 10 to 11 a.m. the same morning, the Education Garden hosts a Year-Round Gardening session on planting garlic, onions and shallots. It's 30 minutes of instruction followed by hands-on practice, and kids under 13 need a registered adult with them.
- Saturday, Nov. 28. No market. It's Thanksgiving weekend.
- Friday, Dec. 4, 6 to 8 p.m. The town's free Christmas Tree Lighting at Indian Creek Trailhead, with carols, entertainment and the lighting of the tree.
- Saturday, Dec. 5. The market comes back on its winter schedule, 9:30 a.m. to noon.
- Thursday, Dec. 10. Last day of the town's Toys for Tots drive. Bring new, unwrapped toys to the lobbies of Fire Stations 1, 2 and 3.
- Saturday, Dec. 12, 9:30 a.m. to noon. The Winter Wonderland Craft Fair brings in craft vendors alongside the regular market, and the Holiday Food Drive runs the same morning.
- Friday, Dec. 18, 4 to 7:30 p.m. Swim with Santa at the Morrisville Aquatics & Fitness Center, 1301 Morrisville Parkway. Admission is $10 for residents and $14 for non-residents.
Five of those eight stops are at the same park. The market's Oct. 31 vendor list gives a sense of who sets up there: Breadwaala, Coleman Girls Farm, Gabor Farms, Hasena Farms, Redbud Organic Farm and Kneaded Bakehouse, among others. That list covers one Saturday, so the vendors at a December market may be different.
Getting in while the block is under construction
Most of the trouble is the same few blocks of construction around Town Hall Drive. In the town's October 2026 Town Center update, Foxglove Drive is closed between Jeremiah Street and Carolina Street. Utility work on Carolina Street brings rolling lane closures that move toward Church Street. Since September, cars headed to the Town Campus have been routed behind Fire Station One.
Each destination on the block has its own parking plan:
| Where you're going | Where to park | What to know |
|---|---|---|
| Saturday market | Indian Creek Park lot, then auxiliary lots at 100 Town Hall Drive, about 450 feet away, or 240 and 260 Town Hall Drive, about 0.2 miles away | Park-lot spaces go first to patrons with limited mobility. If you arrive before the opening bell, use an auxiliary lot. Do not park at the fire station. |
| Dec. 4 tree lighting | Cedar Fork Community Center, with a shuttle to the trailhead | Accessible parking is at Town Hall. |
| Morrisville Community Library | Temporary lot reached from Carolina Street through Church Street | The town asks patrons not to park on Jeremiah Street. |
If you'd rather leave the car home, there are two options. The market's page names the Indian Creek Greenway as a direct link to neighborhoods along Town Hall Drive. Right now, though, the town's October capital report says part of the Indian Creek Greenway is closed for the NCDOT Airport Boulevard Extension, with a detour in place, and the west-side sidewalk on Church Street is closed too. The other option is the Morrisville Smart Shuttle. Its library stop, node #6, is a 6-minute walk, or 0.3 miles, from the market.
What the fence is turning into
The work you walk past to reach the trailhead is two connected projects. The town's development partner is Singh Development. HKJ Construction has started work on the residential piece. The town describes that piece as a four-story apartment building with approximately 215 units over ground-floor retail and commercial space. It sits next to the library with an enclosed parking deck, and The Line reported that the deck adds 100 spaces for Town Center use.
The Town Green is the part that will take over this season's job. The town's October capital report lists an outdoor stage, cottage retail buildings, a public restroom, a plaza with sculptures and water features, a playground, and new streetscapes along Town Hall Drive, Foxglove Drive and Carolina Street. The Line added more detail. The lawn will hold up to 2,500 people. The four cottage buildings will each have two 1,250-square-foot spaces, for eight in all, and they will open onto the green. A social district will let people carry a drink while they watch a performance. The Western Wake Farmers Market and Educational Garden also get a permanent home there. Zuidema told the outlet he hopes for a bike shop, given how close the greenways are, and named a bakery or brewery as other possibilities.
Here is how things stood at the end of October. Concrete for the parking deck was going up. Foundations were underway for the support building, the restroom building and the seat walls along the sides of the green. Utilities were going in around the Foxglove extension and along Carolina Street from Town Hall to Church Street. The town's estimated completion for Phase 1A is 2027/2028.
With that schedule, the trailhead will probably host at least one more holiday season before the market moves back a few hundred feet up Town Hall Drive. Until then, the walk from an auxiliary lot past the fence to the Dec. 12 craft fair takes you by the green that will eventually host it.
If you live near Town Hall Drive and want to know how the Town Center construction and its 2027/2028 finish could affect what your home is worth, The Oxford Team can walk you through it. Request a Free Home Valuation and we'll show you how homes close to the new green are being priced while the construction is still going on.