“When we are working with clients and they are looking for space to lease or land to build on in our area, they comment to us about how terrible the traffic is,” Statesville-based general contractor Jerry Alford said. “It is something we have to overcome in order to get people to do deals.”
Greenville, S.C.-based RealtyLink can move forward with construction on a 67,000-square-foot commercial building. The Statesville Board of Adjustment has granted the company a variance. Approved Tuesday, it allows the building to have flat exterior walls on the back and sides, instead of walls with ornate “recesses and projections,” as mandated by the town’s architectural ordinances, [...]
Statesville’s planning board is scheduled to make a recommendation today regarding site plan approval for the proposed Statesville Retail Center on Highway 21. Sherry Ashley, Statesville’s assistant planning director, said the town’s Technical Review Committee has already approved the commercial project, which is slated to be about 67,000 square feet, with four individual retail units [...]