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3 textile mills going mixed-use and 9 more developments to watch

September 16, 2021

Bloomfield/Schon wants to redevelop the historic Shuler & Benninghofen woolen mill in Hamilton, Ohio, into 100 apartments, as well as retail that may include restaurants and a microbrewery. The company has the city’s approval and expects to complete the project within two years.

And Portman Holdings will convert part of the 105-year-old Savona Mill in Charlotte, North Carolina, into 180,000 square feet of office. The city has zoned the mill and surrounding property for 290,000 square feet of commercial space, which also could include a maximum of 47,000 square feet of retail and as many as 650 residential units.

Meanwhile, Warhaft Group of Cos. and Atlas Capital Group are converting the 240-acre U.S. Finishing/Cone Mills Superfund site in Greenville, South Carolina, into a master-planned, mixed-use community called On the Trail. It was a textile bleaching facility from 1903 to 2003.

On the Trail

9 more developments to watch

ExperienceOne Homes and The Kalikow Group will break ground this month on Sweetwater Town Center in Apex, North Carolina. Plans call for 230 apartments and 500,000 square feet of retail, office and entertainment space connected to an existing 400-home community. Phase 1 — which will include three four-level mixed-use apartment buildings and a 30,212 square-foot office building, both with ground-level retail — will open 18 months to two years after the start of construction. Anchor retail tenants, including a grocer, have yet to be announced.

Phase 2 of Atlanta’s Pittsburgh Yards mixed-use development will include a courtyard with 10 shipping containers-turned-retail spaces for local businesses. The development, which opens this week with 101 office and co-working spaces on 31 acres along the city’s BeltLine park in the underserved Pittsburgh neighborhood, is a nonprofit project of The Annie E. Casey Foundation.

Richmond, Virginia, developers filed plans for a three-story building to replace the Westover Place shopping center. Plans call for a 30,000-square-foot structure with 30 apartments above a 7,800-square-foot, ground-floor commercial space with 47 surface parking spots.

Developers won a lawsuit and can proceed with the demolition of San Jose, California’s CityView Plaza to make way for 3.6 million square feet across a trio of 19-story office towers that will include 24,000 square feet of ground-floor retail.

The city of Waco, Texas, is helping finance the redevelopment of the Oak Lodge Motor Inn into a mixed-use complex called Dottie Oaks with condos, lofts and 7,500 square feet of retail or restaurant space.

Centennial is making headway on its conversion of the 1.2 million-square-foot Hawthorn Mall in Vernon Hills, Illinois, to mixed-use. This year, the developer bulldozed the mall’s former Sears, and it’s working on underground gas and electrical services there for Hawthorn Row. This main street-style component will include 313 luxury apartments, 83,342 square feet of commercial space, a 12,500-square-foot patio for entertainment and activities, and a 570-space parking garage. The retail portion is expected to open next summer, followed by the apartments in fall 2022.

Officials in Lewisville, Texas, gave the greenlight for a development that will include 430 multifamily units and 23,000 square feet of retail on 10 acres near the Old Town train station. The development also will offer more than 10,000 square feet of amenities, including a swimming pool, fitness center, pet spa, yoga and cycling studio and co-working space.

Trammell Crow Co. will develop a mixed-use building featuring 369 market-rate apartments and 9,800 square feet of ground-floor retail in Bothell, Washington, near Seattle. The company paid the city $12.75 million, or $112 per square foot, for the 3.7-acre, downtown lot. Kidder Mathews represented the city.

Rev Development broke ground on its $75 million transformation of the former Platte River Mall in North Platte, Nebraska, into District 177, an open-air center anchored by a reopened Golden Ticket Cinema. Dunham’s Sports will open in the center, and the developer is building a Nebraskaland Tire and Service center.

By Brannon Boswell

Executive Editor, Commerce + Communities Today

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