Oakview Commons Just Filled Its Last Storefront. Here's What's Actually There Now.

Drive out to the corner of Holly Springs New Hill Road and Green Oaks Parkway on a Tuesday night in September and you will see golf carts parked in a row outside a building that had drywall dust on its windows eighteen months ago. Inside, someone is finishing a bowl of ramen. Next door, four people are working through a round of virtual golf with a self-pour beer in hand. Across the lot, a family is deciding between Cold Stone and one more lap around the patio at Oakview Public House.

If the last time you checked on Oakview Commons was back when it was mostly a construction fence and a rendering on a sign, the plaza will not look like the one you remember. The roster is complete now. Twelve businesses occupy the site's three retail buildings, and the twelfth one, Flying Biscuit Cafe, closed out the leasing this summer. That completion is the actual news here, not because a shopping center filling up is unusual, but because of what it means for anyone living near 12 Oaks: for the first time, there is a single plaza within a mile of home that covers coffee, dinner, a haircut, a workout, and a night out without anyone needing to start a car.

The Twelve Businesses On Twelve Acres

The development sits on twelve acres, and it now holds exactly twelve tenants, according to the property's own leasing page. Grouped by what they actually solve on a given day, the current lineup looks like this:

Food and drink

• Oakview Public House, the sit-down anchor at 131 Oakview Commons Drive, with a spacious patio, a curated wine list, and a menu built around seasonal salads, shareable plates, seafood, and steaks
• Arita Ramen and Sushi, a full-service Japanese restaurant on Oakview Commons Drive serving ramen, sushi, and handcrafted cocktails
• Grain & Berry, a superfood café at 101 Oakview Commons Drive with açaí and pitaya bowls, smoothies, and plant-based flatbreads
• Flying Biscuit Cafe, the brunch-focused newcomer at 161 Oakview Commons Drive, the first dedicated brunch restaurant to land in this part of Holly Springs
• Switch Craft, a beer, wine, and seltzer taproom with a dozen taps and roughly twenty wines by the glass
• Cold Stone Creamery, for the night nobody wants to cook

Fitness, recovery, and wellness

• Golf Hour, an indoor golf and multi-sport simulator lounge at 131 Oakview Commons Drive with four TruGolf Apogee bays, a dozen TVs, and a self-pour taproom carrying fifteen taps
• Access Fitness & Recovery, a 24/7 gym in a 4,500 square foot space with cold plunge and sauna amenities
• Degree Wellness, a recovery-focused lounge offering cryotherapy, infrared sauna, red light therapy, and IV drips
• Virge Yoga

Personal care and services

• Image Studios, a collective of independent salon suites for hairstylists, estheticians, and massage therapists, and the first tenant to open here
• Astoria Nail Bar

That is a genuinely complete set of weekly errands sitting inside a single small plaza, not a strip of six restaurants competing for the same dinner crowd.

How It Filled In, In Order

The build-out did not happen all at once, and the order it happened in tells you something about who this plaza was built for. Buildings A and B were finished by early 2025, with Building C following that March. Image Studios opened first, before the rest of the plaza had tenants to keep it company. Golf Hour and Arita Ramen and Sushi followed in the late summer of 2025. The wellness pairing of Access Fitness & Recovery and Degree Wellness came next, both targeting a January 2026 opening. Flying Biscuit Cafe, on a ten-year lease, was the piece that took longest and the one that closed the loop this past summer.

Notice what filled in first and what filled in last. The service and simulator concepts, the kind of business that survives on a smaller, steadier local crowd, went in early. The brunch restaurant, which needs foot traffic and a proven weekend crowd to justify a decade-long lease, waited until the rest of the plaza had already built that audience.

Why It's Sitting Exactly Where It's Sitting

Oakview Commons is not a random retail pad. It sits at the edge of the Oakview Innovation Park, the biopharma corridor where companies including FujiFilm Biotechnologies and CSL Seqirus have built or are building major facilities. That corridor puts thousands of daytime workers within a short drive, and the plaza's own leasing materials note it serves more than 2,000 homes within a one-mile radius, a radius that includes 12 Oaks.

That combination explains the mix better than any single business does on its own. A lunch-hour bowl place like Grain & Berry and a fast, casual sit-down spot like Oakview Public House make sense for a corridor full of people on a one-hour break. A golf simulator lounge with a taproom and a wellness lounge with cold plunge and infrared sauna make sense for the neighborhood crowd coming after work, not during it. The plaza was built to work at 12:30 in the afternoon and again at 7:30 at night, for two different sets of people.

Getting There Without Starting the Car

The detail that matters most if you actually live in 12 Oaks is access. Residents can reach Oakview Commons on foot, by bicycle, by golf cart, or by a micro-transit shuttle that launched in January 2026, with several routes connecting the neighborhood directly to the plaza. That is a genuinely different proposition than a shopping center you drive to. A golf cart trip for ramen on a Tuesday is a different kind of errand than a car trip, and it changes what a weeknight actually looks like for people who live within that radius.

What a Normal Week Looks Like Now

Here is the test that shows the plaza is complete rather than just busy: try to plan a full week of ordinary errands using only what is on site.

Coffee and breakfast is Flying Biscuit. Lunch is a bowl from Grain & Berry. A haircut is booked through one of the independent stylists at Image Studios, or nails at Astoria. A workout happens at Access Fitness, and recovery afterward happens next door at Degree Wellness. Dinner rotates between Arita's ramen and sushi or a steak at Oakview Public House. A Friday night out is a few rounds at Golf Hour with a self-poured drink, or a slower evening with a glass of wine at Switch Craft. Cold Stone closes out a Saturday. None of that requires leaving a twelve-acre lot.

That is the actual shift worth registering. Eighteen months ago, this was a rendering and a construction fence. Now it is a place where a resident of 12 Oaks can run an entire week's worth of ordinary life without getting on New Hill Road in a car. The plaza did not get bigger. It got finished, and finished is a different thing than open.

If you are weighing what daily life looks like on the southwest side of Holly Springs, or comparing it to other pockets of town, our Holly Springs neighborhood guide rounds up more of what's changed recently across the area. And if a full plaza like this one has you thinking about whether your current home still fits how you actually spend a week, Quin Realty Group is always glad to talk through what your options look like, no pressure and no obligation.