
Mixed-use lots and affordable housing are combined to make a highlight on the city’s skyline.

The News & Observer highlights the success of The Dillon, in downtown Raleigh, that reformed a polluted brownfield site to instead become a beacon of the state’s redeveloped industrial heritage. Touching to a very human level is the need for shelter this, too, has been provided through unique and sensitive reimaginings of NC industrial sites. Now with a farmer’s market next to the park and eco-friendly developments along the way, this is another fantastic example of how the state has rehabilitated disused or damaged areas. As the NPS highlights, money has been funneled into the work of Vollis Simpson, who donated works of art made from discarded items into whirligigs. One of the most famous examples of brownfield renovation in the state is, arguably, seen in Wilson. This use of existing space and developments, and the good work that has gone before, is key to renovating the state’s spaces and bringing them into the public consciousness. The result is, as the New York Times highlights, a unique and economically progressive development that shows a little of the best NC has to offer - whether industrial or rural. Green spaces and lawns have been tended to in sensitive yet attractive fashion, and large areas of the building and its environs have been turned towards mixed-use functions. As it happens, NC is excelling.Ĭlosed in 1996, Rocky Mount Mills is a Twin Counties development that has made wonderful use of its natural surroundings.
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With that has come an opportunity to show the rest of the country just how to redevelop and reinvigorate derelict sites, and align them with the state's rural heritage. Now, with EPA assistance to the tune of $2.8 million, these sites are being marked for new development.

The Piedmont in particular saw a decline into the latter part of the 20th century, leaving swathes of brownfield in its wake.

North Carolina was once the industrial heart of America.
