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HERE WE
GROW AGAIN DEVELOPERS SHARE UPDATES ON LOCAL PROJECTS AND HOW THE PANDEMIC FACTORS INTO THOSE PLANS BY ANNA-RHESA VERSOLA
ocal developer Greg Stafford tapped the toe of his boot on a cement doorstep where a 1919 Buffalo nickel might be hiding beneath decades of paint layers at the Justice Motor Company building in downtown Pittsboro. “Imagine that,” Greg says, reflecting on how a coin that was minted during the Spanish flu more than
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PHOTO BY JOHN MICHAEL SIMPSON
100 years ago could be uncovered this week during a redevelopment project in the middle of another global pandemic. Greg owns the 1940s building that originally housed a car dealership and, most recently, the Pittsboro Roadhouse restaurant and performance venue; its owners are relocating to Chatham Mills with a new concept. Major renovations to the historic building are part of a larger development project called SoCo, shorthand for South of the Courthouse, and covers property
FEBRUARY / MARCH 2021