[CPEO-BIF] Former Cotton Mill site, Asheville, North Caronlina

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Asheville approves 5- to 6-story River Arts District development near greenway

By Joel Burgess
Asheville Citizen Times (NC)
August 26, 2021

ASHEVILLE - A five- to six-story building has been approved in the River Arts District for the former site of a historic cotton fabric factory that burned to the ground a quarter century ago.

City Council voted 5-2 to approve the proposed 70-foot tall residential and commercial building at the site of the former Cotton Mill at 159 Riverside Drive. The vote came over objections by Councilwomen Kim Roney and Sage Turner, who criticized the number of apartments with affordable rents.

Brennan Smith of Tampa-based BRN Development proposed the 134-unit structure with 14,000 square feet of commercial space and 182 off-street parking spots. The concept was supported by RiverLink, a nonprofit formed in 1989 to spearhead the revitalization of the once-blighted former industrial area now known as the River Arts District.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/2021/08/26/asheville-approves-river-arts-district-development-greenway-apartments-affordable-housing/5590880001/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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