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2016 Best Outdoor Space Improvement Shelby, NC City Pavilion in Uptown Shelby, NC The City Pavilion, located on West Marion Street in Uptown Shelby is a covered, open-air, 8,500 square foot structure built to house the Foothills Farmers' Market, as well as concerts and other events. In addition to a large shelter, it features storage rooms, bathrooms, a walk-in cooler, ceiling fans and decorative festival lighting. It can hold close to 50 market vendors and has a capacity of

2016 Best Outdoor Space Improvement Bessemer City, NC The historic rehabilitation cost $432,000 and is fully occupied with City of Wilson administrative offices. Centennial Park was a 3,000 square foot green space created in 1993 in the heart of downtown Bessemer City. As the number of special events increased in recent years, downtown needed a more versatile space. The Centennial Park Revitalization Project involved reclaiming under-utilized city property and acquiring aband

2016 Best Historic Rehabilitation Project Hickory, NC Rehabilitation of the Lyerly Full Fashioned Mill in Hickory, NC The Lyerly Full Fashioned Mill, located on Main Avenue Way SE in Downtown Hickory, was constructed in 1930. It is Hickory's only remaining two-story hosiery mill from this era and was named to the National Register of Historic Places in August 2007. The mill closed in the mid-1990s and sat empty until 2014 when Transportation Insight, a national logistics comp