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Regional Briefs: Restaurant, mural to get new homes
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Published: March 14, 2009
Southern Community Bank and Trust has signed a lease to put an ATM at street level at the MINIM building planned for downtown Winston-Salem, the developer said yesterday.
MINIM will be a "green" building with office, retail and residential offerings at the southeast corner of Fourth and Cherry streets. The developer, 4th Street Investors, has reservations for seven of the 17 condos planned for the project.
Three buildings stand where MINIM will be developed: the Realty Building, the former Baldwin real-estate office and the building where the Dill Pickle restaurant currently operates.
The Realty Building will be renovated. The other two buildings will be demolished and replaced with a 48,000-square-foot building with 11 floors and a mezzanine.
Rence Callahan of Walter Robbs Callahan & Pierce Architects said that 4th Street Investors will work with the Dill Pickle to help it find a new location. The restaurant remains open for the time being. The developer still doesn't have a start date for the project.
The developer also plans to help move the existing community mural on the side of the Realty Building.
"We just want to make sure people know we're just not going to tear it down and throw it in the dump," Callahan said.
One Stokes school-board meeting off
DANBURG -- The Stokes County Board of Education has canceled a special meeting that was scheduled to be held before its regular meeting Monday. Officials were expected to discuss paying for the construction of Nancy Reynolds Elementary School at the special meeting.
The board will hold its regular meeting at 6 p.m. at Germanton Elementary School, 6085 N.C. 8 South. For more information, call 593-8146.
Police look into sexual-assualt report
Winston-Salem police are investigating a report of a sexual assault in the Hanes Mall Boulevard area.
The 22-year-old victim told police that she was out with friends at the Wild Wing Cafe early yesterday morning. She said she left the restaurant with a man and walked to a nearby hotel that is under construction. The victim said that once inside the hotel, the man pushed her to the floor, held her hands down and sexually assaulted her.
She walked back to the restaurant and her friends took her to Forsyth Medical Center, police said.
The man is described as white, 25 to 30 years old, about 5 feet 9 inches tall, between 160 and 170 pounds, wearing blue jeans, a light-colored polo shirt and tennis shoes.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 727-2800.
$1.2M contract awarded for bridge job
RALEIGH -- N.C. Transportation Secretary Gene Conti has awarded a $1.2 million state contract to replace the bridge over Little Phoenix Creek on Old N.C. 16 north of Jefferson in Ashe County.
Summers-Taylor Inc. of Elizabethton, Tenn., received the contract to replace the existing bridge with a new adjacent bridge and a concrete culvert. The company also will add shoulders to the bridge's approaches. Traffic will use a temporary onside detour during construction.
The work is scheduled to begin March 30.
Alcoa alleges records-law violation
Attorneys for Alcoa Power Generating Inc. have filed a lawsuit against Stanly County and several county officials alleging that the county has violated North Carolina's public-records law.
Alcoa has applied for a new 50-year license to operate four reservoirs along the Yadkin River in Stanly, Davidson, Davie, Rowan and Montgomery counties.
According to the lawsuit, filed in Stanly Superior Court, Alcoa wrote to Stanly County in April 2008 asking for copies of public records pertaining to the re-licensing application. The county has failed to turn over any significant number of records, the suit says.
The county has also used improper tactics to delay its response, the suit says.
Andy Lucas, the county manager, could not be reached for comment yesterday.
Virginia company to open plant in N.C.
LITTLETON -- A Virginia company that makes construction panels and promotes "green" building will open a plant in North Carolina and create about 100 jobs over the next three years.
Gov. Bev Perdue said yesterday that FASTA Inc. plans to invest $2.5 million and open its first manufacturing plant in Littleton to make steel panels and trusses.
The company received a $300,000 grant from the One North Carolina Fund.
The new jobs will pay an average annual wage of $28,707, not including benefits. The average annual wage in Halifax County is $25,844.
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