Over most of 2026, the storefronts along McChesney Hill Loop, at Sunset Lake and Stephenson Roads, filled in one door at a time, and the last one is targeting an early November opening. A center where most people used to run one errand now has enough food, drink and games to fill an evening.
Developer Peterson Properties calls Peterson Station a completed mixed-use project with 316 apartments and 46,988 square feet of ground-floor retail. That is a small footprint. The tenants that filled it also keep very different hours. The two kitchens stop serving at 8 or 9 p.m., while the pub stays open past 11. On a weeknight, that gap decides the order of an evening there.
One storefront at a time
As best the public record shows, here is the order in which the center filled in:
- Doherty's Irish Pub & Restaurant, 3149 McChesney Hill Loop. The pub's own announcement in late 2025 said it was coming to Holly Springs "this December". By March 17, 2026, it was running a St. Patrick's Day schedule at the Holly Springs address starting at 11 a.m.
- Jack the Dipper at 3137 and Jetset Pilates at 3141. Both were listed as now open in Suburban Living Magazine's June 29, 2026 roundup, with Jack the Dipper serving hand-dipped ice cream, waffle cones, shakes and sundaes.
- The Perch, 1125 McChesney Hill Loop. A Western Wake preview said the coffee and tabletop game lounge would open to the public on Tuesday, August 4.
- Burger Love, 3133 McChesney Hill Loop. Suburban Living listed it as now open in an August 19, 2026 roundup.
- Limra Mediterranean Restaurant, 3109 McChesney Hill Loop. WRAL's Foodie News reported it open on October 9, 2026.
- Libations Bottle & Bev Co., 3101 McChesney Hill Loop. Its website says it is targeting an early November opening.
The center's own retail roster also lists Betty and Jane, Aura Nail Salon and Evolution Salon Studios. Evolution says its 43 private salon studios are open. Those are daytime errands. The places that turned the center into an evening are the food and drink spots in the list above, and most of them arrived within roughly five months of each other.
Some of these businesses list their address as Apex 27539 and others as Holly Springs. Burger Love's location page and Jack the Dipper's ordering page both use "Apex, NC 27539". Libations describes its spot as near the Holly Springs and Apex border. Whichever town your GPS lands on, it's the same parking lot.
The kitchens close first
Here is when each spot closes, using the hours each business posts on its own site or ordering page:
| Spot | Address | Weeknight close | Friday and Saturday close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burger Love | 3133 McChesney Hill Loop | 8 p.m. Mon–Thu, closed Sunday | 9 p.m. |
| Limra Mediterranean | 3109 McChesney Hill Loop | 9 p.m. daily | 9 p.m. |
| Jack the Dipper | 3137 McChesney Hill Loop | 9 p.m. Sun–Thu | 10 p.m. |
| Doherty's Irish Pub | 3149 McChesney Hill Loop | 11 p.m. Mon–Thu | Midnight |
Some of these hours differ depending on where you look. Burger Love's Toast ordering page shows closing about 15 minutes earlier than its own site. Doherty's Toast page shows 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. every day, which is shorter than the schedule on the pub's own site. On a cold night, call ahead before you count on the late end of either listing.
Read down the table and the pattern is clear. The two newest food spots, Burger Love and Limra, stop serving by 9 p.m. or earlier. Ice cream runs about as late. Only Doherty's goes past 10, and that's where the evening ends.
Building the evening around 9 p.m.
So on a weeknight, eat first. Limra runs on a fixed daily schedule, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., with counter service and no reservations, according to The Raleigh Local's October 19 write-up. The same piece says online ordering was still rolling out then, so calling ahead at (919) 446-6060 was the easiest way to order pickup.
The menu is the reason to plan around it. Chefs Can and Elif Engin built a following with a food truck before moving into the storefront. The menu leans Turkish, with Greek and Italian touches, and Elif runs the pastry program. The doner is 100% halal. Prices give a sense of a table's bill. The Tantuni Wrap, a Mersin street-food dish of butter-sautéed seasoned beef rolled in lavash, is $14.50. The Iskender Platter is $19.99. A vegan çiğ köfte wrap costs $10.99. Dishes like tantuni and Antakya-style chicken don't turn up often anywhere in the Triangle, let alone in south Wake.
On a Monday through Thursday, Burger Love has the tighter window. It closes at 8 p.m. and isn't open on Sunday, so a burger night is a Friday or Saturday plan or an early weeknight one.
After dinner, the evening heads to the places built for staying a while. The Perch, from founder Jacob Williams, pours coffee from California roaster Cat & Cloud and serves bakery items, toast, salads and sandwiches, according to Midtown Magazine. A $5 venue fee opens The Stack, a pull-to-play library of more than 100 card and board games. The private room, The Dungeon, rents for about $60 for four hours for role-playing campaigns. The Perch's own games page says it hosts events every week. Before opening, it described Magic: The Gathering nights, learn-to-play sessions, puzzling and live music. The hours in that preview were 7 a.m. weekday openings, closing at 9 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and around 11 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Those were projections, so check the current schedule on The Perch's site before planning a late game.
If the preview hours held, a Thursday through Saturday evening can run from Limra at 6 to The Perch until 11, without ever moving the car. Jack the Dipper fits between the two. Doherty's covers anyone who wants to stay later, until midnight on Friday and Saturday by the pub's own posted hours.
What Libations adds, once it opens
Libations at 3101 is the newest piece, and it fills a slot nothing else at the center covers. It plans 19 rotating craft beer taps plus one tap for Prosecco and wine by the glass. Six cooler doors hold cans, bottles, cider, seltzers, non-alcoholic options and THC beverages to drink there or take home. There will be bar seating, group tables and an outdoor patio, per Suburban Living's October 20 roundup.
The opening date has moved once already. WRAL reported in September that Libations would open "next month". Its website now says it is targeting an early November opening and points people to a "First Pour List" for opening-week updates. Check that list before you plan a night around it.
Once it opens, the walk from 3109 to 3101 is a few doors, so dinner at Limra and a glass of wine or a flight of local taps afterward would fit inside the same evening. That gives Peterson Station two places to stay late after the kitchens close, at opposite ends of the row.
December pulls the calendar downtown
For the next six weeks, the town's holiday events will compete with the Sunset Lake corner for evenings. Suburban Living's Holiday Happenings list, published October 20, gives the dates. Santa's Mailbox sits in front of Town Hall at 128 S. Main Street from November 23 through December 13. Shop the Springs runs in downtown Holly Springs from November 28 through December 12. Light the Springs is Saturday, December 5, from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Holly Springs Cultural Center, 300 W. Ballentine Street. The Holly Day Express rolls through Holly Springs neighborhoods with the Fire Department from December 7 through December 11.
Light the Springs is the one that overlaps with Peterson Station's hours. It ends at 8 p.m. on a Saturday, while Limra serves until 9 and Jack the Dipper and Doherty's run later. You could watch the lights downtown first and still make it to the corner for dinner, as long as you head there right when the event wraps.
If you live near Sunset Lake Road, you've just watched the businesses near you change over the course of a year, and that shift is what our team at The Property Shop Real Estate Co. watches when we price a home in southern Wake County. If you're wondering how new spots within walking distance affect what your home is worth, ask us for a free home valuation and we'll go through your address with you.
