Green Gamble: Bill Thomas’ ‘Agriburbia’ project hasn’t taken root

Green Gamble: Bill Thomas’ ‘Agriburbia’ project hasn’t taken root (access required)

As it sits there now, The Farmstead in Rowan County is just another failed and abandoned subdivision. Developers Bill Thomas and John Fletcher had high hopes in 2007, when they paid about $2.5 million for the 120 acres in Granite Quarry, about 40 miles north of Charlotte. But then the economy soured, they lost their builder and ...

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