A Boston-based nonprofit developer is planning to start renovations on a historic textile mill within a month, after a years-long effort by the city of Charlotte to convert the building into affordable apartments.

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Bob Nixon owns less than an acre of land at Anderson and North Davidson streets in the NoDa neighborhood. He’d like to redevelop it — into what he doesn’t know yet — but he said the blighted masses that are the Johnston and Mecklenburg mills, roughly three blocks from his land, have made him reluctant to do anything with his property.

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Robert Fossi expected some labor pains as his company oversaw the rebirth of the Mecklenburg and Johnston mills.

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Plans for extending the Lynx light-rail line have the new owners of Johnston and Mecklenburg mills in NoDa looking for a rezoning that would take advantage of the transit system.

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The Charlotte area could soon see two more historic textile mills undergo a facelift and go from vacant to back in use. Plans are under way to restore and renovate Mecklenburg and Johnston Mills, NoDa properties that have been eyesores ...

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With no one challenging The Community Builders’ upset bid of $1.24 million, the Washington, D.C.-based affordable-housing developer is now poised to take ownership of two historic NoDa mills that are to be developed into a residential project. Charlotte’s Neighborhood and ...

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Carletta Jackson wants to move back to the home that she was kicked out of. It happened in 2006, on Mother’s Day weekend. Jackson had just come home from work and was in the kitchen making food and cocktails for ...

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The Community Builders Inc. submitted another upset bid Thursday for two historic NoDa mills that are to be developed into a residential project, part of which will include affordable housing. The upset bid of $1.24 million is more than double ...

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Eligible bidders for two historic NoDa Mills have until March 24 to come up with at least $1.24 million to stay in the running. The bidding war is now in round four since Merrifield Patrick Vermillion submitted an upset bid of ...

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Now in round three, the bidding war for two historic NoDa mills will go into round four if companies file upset bids Monday to redevelop the properties. The Community Builders Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based affordable-housing developer, put in a $1.02 ...

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