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NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Phase one for Croasdaile Village’s $70 million expansion of its Durham retirement community started earlier this year. The project includes the construction of 17 new cottages, four new six-plex villas, a physical and occupational therapy building, a modern wellness center and new dining venues, plus the expansion and renovation of the community’s assisted living residences. Downtown’s Legacy Tower office building – headquarters to the N.C. Mutual Life Insurance Co. – will undergo $11 million in renovations to revamp the aesthetics of the building.
IN THE NEWS
Abodo, through analyzing wage trends in metropolitan statistical areas throughout the country, determined Durham-Chapel Hill to be the area with the most equal pay for men and women. Women earn 92.6 cents to a man’s dollar, whereas the national average is 78.9 cents to a man’s dollar. CNN Travel named The Durham Hotel as one of the nine best new hotels in the South, noting its historical significance and its rooftop deck. Growella picked Durham as the No. 1 city in the South that millennials should move to in its article, “The Best U.S. Cities for Young People.” USA TODAY named the Museum of Life and Science’s Insectarium one of the “10 Great Places to Learn About Bugs.”
WalletHub ranked Durham as the sixth of “2017’s Best Large Cities to Start a Business” in the U.S. and the 15th best place to start a career of the 150 biggest cities in the nation. Hipstorical, a travel blog that features old buildings and how they have been refurbished for modern use, showcased Durham’s Hill Building, a classic mid-1930s art deco building that now houses the 21c Museum Hotel. The post highlights the building’s original use as a banking hall and describes the repurposed vault and elegant 15th floor penthouse suite. Unscripted Durham – which opened July 19 – was featured in The New York Times’ article, “Why Boutique Hotels Are So Big in Not-So-Big Cities.”
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Durham was recognized as one of Trivago’s “10 Under the ‘Gaydar’ LGBTQ Cities,” celebrating the Bull City’s hosting of the North Carolina Gay + Lesbian Film Festival and the state’s annual Pride Parade and Festival.
GIVING BACK
Thirteen-yearold Cash Bland achieved his goal of $5,100 (and then some) to help send more kids to Autism Society of N.C.’s Camp Royall, a 133-acre camp near Pittsboro for people with autism, which Cash was able to attend himself thanks to a scholarship.
IN MEMORIAM
Samuel DuBois Cook, who was Duke University’s first AfricanAmerican faculty member, died in May at the age of 88 after a distinguished 60-year career in higher education, which included his presidency of Louisiana’s Dillard University in 1974 – a post he held for more than 22 years. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE COOK FAMILY
August 2017
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