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2017 Best Adaptive Reuse Project Roxboro, NC Hall's Way retail shopping center in Roxboro, NC Siblings Claudia, Cal, and Joe Berryhill, owners of Hall's Agri-Business, LLC, transformed the former 14,000 square foot Lewis Furniture Company Building, located at 44 Gordon Street, into a retail shopping destination in Uptown Roxboro. Purchased by their great-grandfather in the 1890's, the Berryhills felt that it was time for an extreme makeover. The building had historically hous

2017 Best Image-Building Campaign Garner, NC New website and branding for Garner, NC Downtown Garner's branding refresh began with a long-planned redesign of the downtown Garner website, www.downtowngarner.com , and morphed into a comprehensive, three-pronged approach to brand identity development and mobilization. Phase 1 of the project began with a mobile-responsive website built on a WordPress platform for easy updating and customization, plus a refreshed brand with a stan

2017 Best Downtown Special Event or Event Series Newton, NC Foothills Folk Art Festival in Newton, NC The Foothills Folk Art Festival is a family-friendly event that is produced in partnership between the Downtown Newton Development Association and the Hickory Museum of Art. The festival showcased 91 juried contemporary folk artists from throughout the Southeast showing and selling their work. 3,500 people attended the first event in downtown Newton, which had four food truck

2017 Best Downtown Special Event or Event Series Elizabeth City, NC SPLASH art event in Elizabeth City, NC The week-long annual art event called SPLASH takes place the first week of November in downtown Elizabeth City. During this week, artists and art lovers from all over converge on the "Harbor of Hospitality" to create, collaborate and cultivate the arts. Each year, there is open studio time for artists to create their works, master classes taught by well-known artists, an

2017 Best Innovation Clayton, NC The Paper Company co-working space in Clayton, NC 114 West Main Street began as a car dealership in the 1920's and in 1986, became the North Carolina Paper Company, a wholesale paper goods distributor. The Paper Company mostly used the building as storage, occupying less than 2,000 square feet. In 2016, Reid and Jaclyn Smith and Brad and Stephanie Carrol purchased the building with plans to convert it to office space, utilizing 10,000 square f

2017 Best Innovation Goldsboro, NC One of many "Cool Projects" in downtown Goldsboro, NC This project is a culmination of cool, fun, artful amenities in downtown Goldsboro that are intended to add interest to the district. The $16,000 in "Cool Projects" incorporates nine quote boards, a "We love Downtown" photo contest with over 7,000 impressions, public art sculptures on three blocks of Center Street, a public piano, three alley enhancements, "Do It Downtown" sidewalk signs,

2017 Best Public-Private Partnership Wake Forest, NC Friday Nights on White is a free concert series in Wake Forest, NC Friday Nights on White is a free concert series that is offered on the second Friday of each month, April through September, on White Street in downtown Wake Forest. The $56,000 concert series attracts 8,000 to 15,000 attendees each night. The series is a partnership between the Town of Wake Forest, thirty-five sponsors, the police and fire departments, volu

2017 Best Public-Private Partnership Goldsboro, NC Ribbon cutting for Goldsboro Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics Carolina Power and Light built 300 South Center Street in 1979, but when the company was purchased in the late 1990's, the building was abandoned and it sat vacant for more than 10 years. Even though it was actively marketed for six of those years, it drew little interest due to its condition, 11,000 square foot size, and custom designed layout. In 2016, the G

2016 Best Public Building Improvement Lexington, NC The Old Davidson County Courthouse in Uptown Lexington, NC The Davidson County Board of Commissioners voted to restore the exterior of the Old Davidson County Courthouse on South Main Street in Uptown Lexington in August of 2013. The iconic building is the home of the Davidson County Historical Museum. The Old Court House, constructed in 1858 in the Greek Revival architecture style, has been listed on the National Register o

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

2016 Best Business Recruitment or Expansion Effort Morganton, NC Food Matters Market in downtown Morganton, NC Food Matters Market is a community-oriented grocery store and cafe that was started in Brevard, North Carolina. The market, which supports local producers and sells healthy food grown in the region, was an ideal fit for a vacant building located in downtown Morganton. Through the support of downtown partners, including the Morganton community, the property owner, the

2016 Best Upper Floor Redevelopment Belmont, NC The Revival - 35 North Main project, Belmont, NC The Revival - 35 North Main project combined the individual visions of the property owner and the business owners. For the past 19 years, the building, which was constructed in 1971, had been owned by the same family and housed its business. While the Main Street storefront was continuously occupied, the property owner wanted to maximize the building's income potential by fully le

2016 Best Infill Building Project Concord, NC A $19.2 million project that created jobs in Concord, NC The City of Concord completed the construction of a new City Hall in Downtown Concord in December of 2015. The building consolidated, under one roof, all city offices and employees that were previously housed in three separate downtown buildings. A $19.2 million project, the investment renewed the City of Concord's commitment to keep its workforce and services in the Downtow

2016 Best Adaptive Reuse Project Shelby, NC The Newgrass Brewing Company adaptive reuse project in Uptown Shelby The Newgrass Brewing Company adaptive reuse project in Uptown Shelby involved rehabilitating the former Hudson's Department Store into a brewery and tasting room. The 8,600 square foot building, constructed in 1909, stood vacant on a busy block for more than ten years. The Uptown Shelby Association facilitated the marketing and sale of the property to Hudson Phoeni

2016 Best Adaptive Reuse Project Sanford, NC Rehabilitation of the historic Sanford Buggy Company building From the early 1900s to 2001, a building at 115 Chatham Street in Sanford was home to several industries including The Sanford Buggy Company, Brown Buick, Sanford Furniture Company and Cascade Fibers. In 2001, Progressive Contracting Company purchased the multi-story, 30,000 square foot, contributing historic building from Cascade Fibers. It remained unoccupied, yet full

2016 Best Image Building Campaign Rutherfordton, NC Rutherfordton showcases its new "A Minted Original" brand A concerted effort to revitalize Rutherfordton began in 2013 with citizens involved in the town's NC STEP Committee. Arnett Muldrow & Associates helped Rutherfordton develop its new brand, "A Minted Original," which plays off the town's history as the home of the former Bechtler Mint which produced America's first $1 gold coin. The new brand has been used for signage,

2016 Best Volunteer Recruitment Hendersonville, NC Hendersonville, NC develops a volunteer network of over 200 By 2012, the Historic Downtown Advisory Committee, particularly its Events Team, recognized the need for a broader pool of volunteers to consistently produce effective and successful events. What began as an effort to recruit friends and family members to help with the award-winning Rhythm & Brews Concert Series, has grown into the "Friends of Downtown" program with

2016 Best Fundraising Effort Cherryville, NC Cherryville puts on a successful fundraiser The Cherryville Main Street Program wanted to procure outdoor furniture for the Cherryville Mini-Park in order to improve its appearance and increase its use. The small, downtown park served as the primary site for festivals and events but it had otherwise been rarely used due to a lack of seating. The Cherryville Main Street Program proposed to raise half of the estimated $12,000 cost th

2016 Best Public-Private Partnership Spruce Pine, NC Spruce Pine, NC creates a wayfinding plan for growth Following construction of a local bypass highway, Spruce Pine Main Street found it necessary to develop a signage improvement program to direct people to Spruce Pine and to significant landmarks and destinations within its downtown district. In 2012, the Spruce Pine Main Street Design & Beautification Committee began developing a plan to create, construct and install deco

2016 Small Town Main Street – Best Promotion Mayodan, NC Hay bale sculptures pepper the town of Mayodan during the annual Hayodan fall festival Hayodan, the Mayodan Hay Bale Sculpture Project, is an annual fall event sponsored jointly by the Town of Mayodan and the Mayodan Downtown Merchants Association. Businesses, non-profits, school groups, citizens and others, sponsor and decorate large, round hay bales, transforming them into works of art that are displayed at sponsor si

2016 Best Public-Private Partnership Concord, NC Adaptation of the historic Bell and Harris-Maxwell Brothers Furniture Store resulted in the construction of 26 market-rate apartments Lofts 29 is an adaptive reuse project of the historic Bell and Harris-Maxwell Brothers Furniture Store building which resulted in the construction of 26 market-rate apartments, the first of their kind, in Downtown Concord. The City of Concord had owned the vacant building, a contributing property