[CPEO-BIF] Broyhill Furniture Industries site, Conover, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Conover Station plans include renovation of Broyhill plant

by Ken Elkins
Charlotte Business Journal
January 6, 2009


Conover officials are working to redevelop a closed furniture factory 
into a glitzy rail station in preparation for the launch of passenger 
train service in Western North Carolina.

Both the redevelopment and rail plan are in the early stages. The N.C. 
Department of Transportation in June approved Conover as a rail stop for 
service from Salisbury to Asheville. Funding, however, has not been 
secured for the project.

The city of Conover bought the Broyhill Furniture Industries complex 
site in 2005, where officials now envision developing the new station.



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For the entire article, see
http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2009/01/05/story18.html?b=1231131600%5E1755821

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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