MORRISVILLE, N.C. (WTVD) -- John Del Valle has lived in Morrisville for more than a decade.

"We moved from New York to Pennsylvania ... and we came down here for retirement, and we're enjoying it," Del Valle said.

After seeing the town grow rapidly, Del Valle will be one of the tens of thousands of residents who will have a "downtown."

We're building a downtown, but we're really building a place for people to come and visit and interact and socialize. - Town Manager Brandon Zuidema

"We don't have a downtown. We don't have a main street," Morrisville Mayor TJ Cawley said. "So we identified this area of town right in our town center campus as a place that it would be great to create that."

Cawley was among the town leaders to celebrate the groundbreaking on Wednesday for the first p

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