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Old 10-03-2014, 07:37 AM
 
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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This should be very good news for Brook Valley. When we lived in Greenville, we were in Eastern Pines so we would drive through the BVCC area often.
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Old 10-03-2014, 08:26 AM
 
Location: Greenville, NC
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This was a home run for BVCC & the neighborhood. Great to see this happen! I'm wondering if GVCC will suffer years down the road due to this?

In other news: 500 jobs coming to the area?

Pitt Co. Commissioners approve deal to bring 500 jobs - Greenville, NC | News | Weather | Sports - WNCT.com
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Old 10-03-2014, 11:52 AM
 
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This was a home run for BVCC & the neighborhood. Great to see this happen! I'm wondering if GVCC will suffer years down the road due to this?

In other news: 500 jobs coming to the area?

Pitt Co. Commissioners approve deal to bring 500 jobs - Greenville, NC | News | Weather | Sports - WNCT.com
The Daily Reflector

The Pitt County Board of Commissioners on Friday approved an economic development package that will create one of the largest pharmaceutical contract manufacturing facilities in the world here in Pitt County.

The company in question was not identified during a morning meeting. A full announcement is expected later today with Gov. Pat McCrory.


Between 400-500 jobs will be created, Wanda Yuhas of the Pitt County Development Commission said. The jobs will have an average salaries of $50,000, creating a payroll of about $26.5 million, excluding the cost of benefits.
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Old 10-03-2014, 03:28 PM
 
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Friday morning by the Pitt County Commissioners to give money to a business that plans to add at least 488 new jobs and invest $160 million over the next five years.

Those jobs are at Patheon/DSM Pharmaceuticals.

The Pitt County Commissioners voted to give an unnamed business a $500,000 grant along with $40,000 in supplements, contingent upon the aforementioned jobs being created and money being invested. The vote was approved, with commissioners being told there would be between 400 and 500 new jobs, with an average pay of $50,000.

In August, Patheon and DSM Pharmaceuticals announced its new name and partnership. Patheon is a combination of DSM and Patheon out of Durham. Currently, there are more than 1,200 employees at the Greenville site.

We're told Patheon is 51% of the partnership and that DSM is 49%. When the new partnership was announced in August, the company had no comment on new job opportunities.

Hundreds of new jobs coming to Pitt County
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Old 10-05-2014, 09:44 PM
 
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Took this picture of The Boundary Saturday morning
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Old 10-06-2014, 10:17 AM
 
Location: Greenville
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Anyone have a date on when 501 Fresh will open? I'm looking forward to it!
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Old 10-06-2014, 11:45 AM
 
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From the Reflector, new information on business moving to Dickinson Avenue.

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In view of Greenville’s metal zoo on Dickinson Avenue are two storefronts most passersby probably wouldn’t give a second glance.

Sunlight struggles in through tiny cracks between boards and bricks to splash onto a dusty concrete floor. Painted words peek out beyond layers and layers of crumbling multicolored plaster. The paint is hardly faded, even after nearly a century. Workers chip away at the plaster, excavating a small part of Greenville’s history. One by one, letters and numbers are revealed.


Windows are boarded up and beams in the ceiling are visible from below. An old stage with narrow slats of wood is positioned in one corner near dusty windows.

If it weren’t so humid in Greenville, even in October, sound probably would have echoed through the long, 4,000-square-foot space. It’s been lonely for a long time.

Built in about 1923, the building has been home to J.B. Johnson and Company feed and seeds (1926), Barber Electric Co. and Harry’s Cafe (1938-39), Greenville Salvage Company (1940-41) and Collins & Son Furniture Store (1944-62). In more recent years, it’s housed an antique store.

Now with help from a development company on a mission to revitalize and business owners with passion, this space is getting a new lease on life, and so is the one next to it.

Christy’s Euro Pub is a favorite among a diverse crowd in Greenville. And now it’s getting a sister restaurant.

While this sister will be younger — Christy’s has been operating since about 2001 — she’s more than three times the size at just more than 4,000 square feet.

Owners are calling it Dickinson Avenue Public House, and it, like Longleaf Brewing Company going in next door, got a small business grant of $15,000 from the city of Greenville.

Raleigh-based CommunitySmith, developers in charge of the “Superblock†rehabilitation project downtown, are heading up the work on both the restaurant and the “nano†brewery.

Dickinson Avenue Public House is planned to be a gastro pub, with many similarities to Christy’s. The pub will target a slightly older audience with food that’s more involved and upscale, owners said. Decor is being dictated by how much of the original history of the building can be preserved, including the signage being revealed as plaster uncovers the original brick walls.

“We are so excited to be a part of really bringing Dickinson back to life and showing people what this area can be,†said Tandi Mahn, owner-operator of Dickinson Avenue Public House. “The pub has been so successful and now we have this great opportunity to make this a destination.â€

Mahn and others involved in the gastro pub wanted to make it clear that nothing is going to change at Christy’s.

“This is going to give us the space to do all the things we haven’t been able to do, like catering,†head chef Jacob Wilson said. “I really want to do nose-to-tail kind of recipes and use local ingredients. We’re going to give people what they want and we’re going to do this right.â€

The restaurant also plans to have a bar and space for entertainment. Owners said there’s been strong collaboration with the brewery, including the potential for a special brew just for the pub and made right next door.

While the brewery hopes to open by the end of this year or early next year, Dickinson Avenue Public House hopes to open at least before the fall 2015 semester begins, hopefully closer to the spring. But before that happens, new plumbing, mechanical, electrical, facade, site work and interior improvements have to be completed.

Holton Wilkerson, managing partner of Raleigh-based CommunitySmith, said his group has invested nearly $1 million so far in the Dickinson area. Wilkerson said his group was attracted to the Dickinson area of the city because it’s “a natural extension of Uptown (with a) cool, edgy vibe/presence relative to the more traditional feel of the Fifth Street area.

Wilkerson said his group is looking at other areas of Dickinson, but nothing specific yet. There’s been discussion of a residential lofts adaptive reuse project at 310 Ninth Street, he said, but nothing is definitive yet.

The Spotted Zebra is another new business in the area. The building already is privately owned and is being rented by the business owners for Kelley Hatch and Katie Strickland’s business. The business offers a variety of services including decorative furniture and accessory painting, home staging and in-home consulting. Hatch and Strickland refinish, rearrange and reuse customers’ existing pieces whenever possible “to help them love their homes again.†They work within everyone’s budget, Strickland said, no matter how modest.

The Spotted Zebra has moved into part of a building that formerly housed Diener’s Bakery, 817 Dickinson Avenue.

“It’s so great to see things like (The Spotted Zebra) popping up,†Wilkerson said. “Many creative, exciting efforts like this need to be happening to really make the kind of difference possible in the tobacco warehouse district.â€
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Old 10-06-2014, 01:31 PM
 
Location: Greenville, NC
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^ that is a really great article. Dickinson has a lot of potential, once they do the street scape project that alone will help tremendously. I hate driving down that road currently because the road is falling apart. An improved street scape will help draw people to the area, along with the Brewery & now this new Restaurant / Pub next door. Great things to happen in that area in the future!


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Wilkerson said his group is looking at other areas of Dickinson, but nothing specific yet. There’s been discussion of a residential lofts adaptive reuse project at 310 Ninth Street, he said, but nothing is definitive yet.
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Old 10-06-2014, 02:04 PM
 
Location: Winterville
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From the Reflector, new information on business moving to Dickinson Avenue.
Awesome! It's exciting to see a sister restarant to Christy's. It took me 4 years to discover Christy's and it was only because I heard about it from one of the employees pouring wine at the Vanderbilt in Asheville who used to attend ECU. This in conjunction with the brewery sounds like a real winning combination.

Although, I hope they fare better than The Courtside Cafe, which apparently closed despite $15,000 of taxpayer assistance.
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Old 10-06-2014, 09:37 PM
 
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