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2018 Best Adaptive Reuse Project Goldsboro , NC 109 East Ash Street was the site of a WPA project to build the Goldsboro Fire Department Headquarters in 1939. The historic building served the City until 1976. Forty years and numerous owners later, in 2016, David and Bethany Perry purchased the building and brought in David Maurer and Billy Brock to complete the design through the construction of the historic tax credit rehabilitation of the building . The 12,000 square

2018 Best Adaptive Reuse Project Fuquay- Varina , NC 128 South Fuquay Avenue served as the Town of Fuquay-Varina fire department for more than thirty years, followed by a variety of businesses until 2017. Anthony Adams purchased the building and partnered with Ben and Alex Somerville with the dream of opening a coffee shop. Cultivate Coffee is Fuquay-Varina’s first all-inclusive coffee shop with roasting capabilities, and it offers a coffee subscription service. The busi

2018 Best Economic Development Incentive Marion, NC Seeking to reverse the decline in local entrepreneurs and new small business start-ups, the Marion Business Association, the City of Marion, the McDowell Chamber of Commerce, and the McDowell Technical Community College Small Business Center initially partnered in 2016 to create the Growing Entrepreneurs Marion, or GEM program. Using the REAL Entrepreneurship curriculum, GEM offers an eight-class training program to tea