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The River District’s new taco and tequila bar features faded brick interior, Day of the Dead themes and a long bar that includes wood salvaged from the third floor of an old Craghead Street building.</div>
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Offering more than 100 varieties of tequila and nine taco options, Mucho Taqueria and Tequileria at 530 Craghead St. held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on a bright but slightly chilly Friday morning.</div>
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City officials, the eatery’s owners, employees and others gathered to celebrate the addition of another small business to the downtown.</div>
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Danville Vice Mayor Alonzo Jones, who led the event, said the name “mucho” — the Spanish word for “much” or “many” — was an apt one for the business.</div>
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“This is an appropriate name for the first restaurant to open along the 500 block of Craghead Street — a block that has seen ‘mucho’ or much change over the past two years,” Jones said during the ceremony.</div>
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Many people remember blighted buildings and empty storefronts that created a block with a decayed appearance, Jones said. But developer and Mucho co-owner Rick Barker saw an opportunity “to bring something unique through design and experience to our community,” the vice mayor added.</div>
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“This area of our River District is being brought back to life through phased development of new, upscale apartments and commercial units,” Jones said, referring in part to Barker’s efforts in refurbishing part of Craghead Street.</div>
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Barker partnered with well-known restaurateur Stephan Parry, managing partner of the Richmond-based Parry Restaurant Group, to open up Mucho in Danville. Parry Restaurant Group has more than a dozen restaurants in Virginia, including Cotton at Riverside Mill in the River District.</div>
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“He is one of the most sought-after restaurateurs in Virginia and in the mid-Atlantic,” Barker said. “He chose Danville, Virginia.”</div>
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Parry was once vice president of operations for the popular chain Ruth’s Chris Steak House, based in Winter Park, Florida.</div>
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Barker, president and CEO of the Danville-based Supply Resources, recited a long list of the River District’s special attractions including the Riverwalk Trail, Community Market, Danville Science Center, and many others. “But I’m not going to talk about that,” he joked.</div>
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Instead, he talked in glowing terms about what he said the River District does not have: large and impersonal corporate chain stores that spend tens of millions of dollars to convince consumers to drive into the sprawl to buy something generic, only to have them call an 800 number for customer service that has been outsourced.</div>
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When a locally-owned business employee or proprietor says “welcome, thank you and please come back,” that person is sincere, Barker said.</div>
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“We’re not saying that because it’s in the corporate manual,” he said. “We say it because we mean it.”</div>
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Diana Schwartz, executive director of the River District Association, pointed to the millions of dollars in investment that have poured into the River District in the last decade.</div>
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“The River District has seen $127 million in public and private investment in the last 10 years,” Schwartz told attendees. “Downtown Danville is enjoying a resurgence that few could have imagined.”</div>
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Danville Economic Development Director Telly Tucker said Mucho brings “a unique flair” to the district.</div>
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“You can’t get this anywhere else because each of Mr. Parry’s restaurants are different,” he said.</div>
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Customer Jeff Dodson did not eat, but tried a shot of Don Julio Reposado tequila, a favorite he has had in Mexico.</div>
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“We’ll definitely be back to eat,” Dodson said. “Fish tacos are one of my favorites.”</div>
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During the ceremony, Barker said people have approached him and asked what they can do to help sustain the River District.</div>
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“Buy a taco,” Barker said to attendees.</div>
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Mucho is open 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, and 11 a.m. to midnight Friday-Saturday.</div>
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One day in 1907, a young couple decided to take a chance on Danville’s growing textile businesses and opened a store on Craghead Street, across from the Golden Leaf Prizery.</div>
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Annie and Benjamin Rippe sold sundries, buttons and fabrics, and also made hats.</div>
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Rippe’s was born and remains a family-owned and operated business in Danville’s downtown 110 years later.<br /><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />The current owner and president — Ben Rippe, the third generation of the family to run the store — smiles as he thinks about his grandparents taking advantage of Danville’s boom-town days.</span></div>
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“It was an immediate success,” Ben Rippe said. “They expanded and moved to lower Main Street within 10 years.”</div>
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In that location — across from the former Kresge Department Store, now Jackie’s Beauty Supply, in the building that now houses Love Wig — stock changed from fabrics and buttons to ready-to-wear clothing, though Ben Rippe’s grandparents still made hats.</div>
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“It was a more affluent time,” Ben Rippe said.</div>
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In 1946, Ben Rippe’s father, Murray “Buddy” Rippe, was running the store with his wife, Esther. He learned from his landlord the building was being sold to Peoples Drug Store.</div>
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“Dad went to the bank [American National] and talked to Wayles Harrison,” Ben Rippe said. “Wayles said not to worry and walked him to the Elks Club and showed him a 25-foot-wide alleyway across the street.”</div>
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Ben Rippe said his father built the building that now houses the clothing section of the store and decided he wanted to add sportswear to the lines of better-quality fashion apparel the store carried. Annie Rippe was horrified.</div>
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“She said, ‘Who will buy that? People want dresses!’ but Dad went ahead and it bettered the businesses,” Ben Rippe said.</div>
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Elegant spiral stairs led to the upper story, where shoes were sold initially. But, Ben Rippe said, the man who leased the space didn’t do well and his father leased the space back and used for clothing and, eventually, bridal fashions.</div>
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Other products were tried — including a riding department and ski shop — and the store even expanded to a second location in Nor-Dan Shopping Center. In a 2007 Register & Bee interview about the store’s 100th anniversary, Buddy Rippe said they closed that store because it was simply too much work and business downtown was “sufficiently prosperous.”</div>
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Ben Rippe took over the store in the early 1990s, and by the mid 2000s decided to discontinue the bridal department. “It was only breaking even,” he said, and bought the building next door to add shoes back into the store’s inventory.</div>
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“I felt Danville needed fashion casual shoes,” he said.</div>
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Ben Rippe said he talked his father into carrying furs in the 1980s, and he went to school to learn how to care for and store furs. He said he works directly with the manufacturers and said feels the store has “better values than anywhere.”</div>
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The furs did well.</div>
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“People come from all over to buy these furs,” Buddy Rippe said in 2007.</div>
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Rippe said about half of his shoppers come from surrounding areas — such as Martinsville, South Boston, Chatham and Gretna — while about 30 percent comes from Danville. The remaining 20 percent comes from people who have heard about his store from friends or grew up here and return to shop.</div>
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“Throughout all the changes we’ve seen over the past 110 years, Rippe’s was always there, always stable,” Larking said. “They kept the store relevant all those years and it continues to be a great anchor store in the River District.</div>
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Larking said he has friends in Yadkinville, North Carolina — about 100 miles from Danville — who are regular Rippe’s customers.</div>
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“We never worried about relocating, even in the 1990s when downtown began to get so vacant,” Rippe said. “Retail is not booming for anyone right now. People dress more casually and they shop online. But we carry quality merchandise and will not be undersold with what we carry.”</div>
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While Ben Rippe is passionate about selling the best possible merchandise, he also just likes what he does.</div>
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“This is a fun and creative business to work in. Every season is something new and fresh and promising,” Ben Rippe said. “We curate brands with a range of customers in mind, for the young and young at heart.”<br /><br />Clothing, shoes, accessories and furs range from contemporary to classic to casual — what Rippe calls “subtle to out there … It is like shopping little design packages aimed at varying lifestyles.”</div>
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Betty Jo Foster, interim president and CEO of the Danville Pittsylvania County Chamber of Commerce, said she has shopped at Rippe’s for 50 years, and even purchased her wedding gown there.</div>
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“A privately owned business [doing business] for that length of time says much for the value they put on the region; it speaks volumes that they stayed when so many left,” Foster said. “I value their customer service and appreciate the warmth of the staff when they greet you at the door. The quality of the merchandise throughout the years has remained high, and I think that’s what attracts many people to their business.”</div>
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A fourth generation has now joined the store. Sam Rippe, Ben Rippe’s son, graduated from Virginia Tech in July and has been working at the store since. He has introduced a T-shirt line and gift department, and is setting up a new software system.</div>
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“We’re working on bringing in more young people,” Sam Rippe said.</div>
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Both Ben and Sam Rippe said this has been a busy month at the store, getting ready for their anniversary sale and celebration — which included a drawing for a $110 gift card during the River District Sip-and-Shop on Thursday, part of the festivities planned for the River District Festival.</div>
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Ben Rippe said having well-trained staff, familiar with the items carried through in-house classes, product information meetings and daily informal chats. The store carried clothing in sizes 2-24W and shoes in sizes 5-11.</div>
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“We all know what runs small and what fits full,” Sam Rippe said, referring to the constantly-updated training staff gets in an effort to serve their customers better.</div>
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Ben Rippe agreed.</div>
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“We take pride in our work, service and the products we sell,” Ben Rippe said.</div>
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Sam Rippe said he looks forward to learning everything he can about the store, and is pleased to be back home.</div>
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“Some of my friends want to come back to Danville, some don’t. I wouldn’t be anywhere else,” Sam Rippe said. “I love Danville and want to be part of the family tradition.” </div>
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They’re young and no-so-young, different nationalities, races, religions and sexual orientations; some were born here, others moved here from all over the country and world.</div>
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Together they are the faces and stories of a new project from local nonprofit community help group Middle Border Forward. And this project, called “Faces of Our Region,” is intended to show the diversity within Danville, Pittsylvania County and Caswell County, North Carolina.</div>
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The project was unveiled Thursday night at the kickoff of the four-day River District Festival, with 25 portraits of people chosen out of far more interviews to represent the region, said program member Cassie Williams Jones.</div>
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Jones said there are posters of the faces all over the River District, pasted to walls of buildings on Union, Main, Craghead and Bridge streets.</div>
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Anyone with a smartphone can listen to their stories by scanning a QR code on the posters — or can access them through the organization’s website, <a href="http://www.middleborderforward.org/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: black; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">www.middleborderforward.org</a>.</div>
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Sheila Baynes, another program member, said all of the interviewees were asked the same questions and were narrowed down to reflect 25 stories that show the diversity of the region.</div>
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Javonte Harris, a 15-year-old sophomore at George Washington High School, said he was at a Music on Main event when he was approached about participating — and seeing his face of River District buildings.</div>
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“I love it,” Harris said. “I liked letting people know about me and how I keep myself positive in Danville.”</div>
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Joanne Roberts, of Java, participated and was waiting to see the final product with her husband, David Locklear.</div>
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The couple came to Danville after she retired from 32 years of working for Verizon and he ended his military career in Virginia Beach. They both taught for a number of years before retiring again.</div>
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Roberts said she enjoyed participating in the project and telling her story.</div>
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Tia Yancey, a program member, told the crowd gathered at the office on Main Street that when the class was deciding on a project, they asked themselves what had Danville done well.<br /><br />“One answer was at the top of the list: our people,” Yancey said.</div>
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That was the inspiration for “Faces of Our Region,” with all participants asked to choose one story from their lives that defines them.</div>
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Jones said exploring those stories culminated in a diversity of thoughts they wanted to celebrate.</div>
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The decision to participate was easy for the youngest participant, Nyla McClinton, 6, of Danville.</div>
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<img src="https://cdn.beeradvocate.com/assets/uploads/2017/08/127Feature_Beertown1-820x564.jpg" style="border: 0px; display: block; max-width: 100%;" /><span style="font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Danville, Va.’s River District, where historic warehouses are being redeveloped for residential and commercial use, including Ballad Brewing’s 16,000-square-foot space. | Photos by Jack Sorokin</span></div>
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Danville, Va., was a textile town, booming with thousands of manufacturing jobs.</div>
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Then, like so many others, it wasn’t.</div>
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Located along the Dan River in south Virginia, a short distance from the state’s border with North Carolina, the small city flourished in the early 20th century thanks to businesses like Riverside Cotton Mills. When it merged with another mill and eventually became Dan River Inc. not long after World War II, it was the largest textile mill in the Southeast, employing around 5,000 North Carolina residents, many from the city and nearby communities.</div>
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But a more globalized world struck Danville’s bottom line, as the production and sale of fabric moved elsewhere. Modernization also came for the city’s economic reliance on tobacco and the railroad industry. In 2007, Preservation Virginia, a nonprofit dedicated to revitalizing the state’s historic places, listed the entire city on its “Most Endangered Historic Sites,” a designation spurred in part by nearly 1 million square feet of unused warehouse space that lines about five blocks of downtown’s Craghead Street. In the last 25 years, Danville’s population fell by roughly 20 percent.</div>
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For a city so defined by its past, it’s now looking to a decidedly trending business to help guide its future: beer.</div>
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It started with <a href="https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/31094/" style="color: #46667c; text-decoration: none;">Vintages by the Dan</a>, a bottle shop that opened in 2012 and in its first five years, increased dollar sales six times over. Then, <a href="https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/36855/" style="color: #46667c; text-decoration: none;">2 Witches Winery and Brewing Co.</a> opened in 2014, and in June 2017, <a href="https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/50226/" style="color: #46667c; text-decoration: none;">Ballad Brewing</a> opened in 16,000 square feet of empty warehouse space. A third brewery, Preservation Ale & Smokehouse, is planned for 2018 just a few storefronts down from Ballad. On a second floor of that same building, Danville Community College is installing classrooms and small brewing “labs” as part of a new, for-credit brewing technology program that will partner with all three breweries for internships, providing a pathway into the industry—and hopefully one that will keep some students local when it’s time to go pro.</div>
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“We used to be one of the most prosperous cities in Virginia with tobacco, farming, and textiles, but so many people have left,” says Bruce Scism, president of Danville Community College. “This is a city no longer saying ‘this is what we used to be.’ This is the city saying, ‘this is what we are.’”</div>
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Rod Tomlinson of bottle shop Vintages by the Dan, which ignited Danville’s beer industry when it opened in 2012. | Photo by Jack Sorokin.</div>
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In a definitive way, Danville is living up to a mantra often repeated by the Brewers Association, noting that breweries are opening everywhere—urban and rural communities—and 78.5 percent of drinking-age adults now live within 10 miles of such a business. The industry is in rapid expansion, and municipalities of all sizes are looking to beer as a way to get tourists to visit and visitors to consider becoming residents. Now, more than ever, beer’s historic place as a social connector is seen as an opportunity to change the fate of Main Streets across the country.</div>
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“The city is ripe for and eager for a rebirth,” says Ballad Brewing co-founder Ross Fickenscher, who, along with business partner Garrett Shifflett, invested about $1.7 million into the company that is projected to produce $47,000 of tax revenue in its first year. They also received about $180,000 in state and city grants for the project. “With the removal of large tobacco and textile businesses, the city has continued to reel from those events and has a real issue on its hands with lack of occupancy downtown and lack of jobs. We believe there’s a lot of positive energy to try to reinvent Danville.”</div>
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For decades, young people have been sought out as the base for economic growth to stimulate and change cities and towns. Millennials, those born between the early 1980s and the early 2000s, number almost 75.5 million, making them the largest generation in America and a pivotal force that now steers the direction of economy and culture alike. It just so happens that this group also really enjoys beer and the feeling of experiencing something authentic that can come from visiting breweries and beer-focused businesses. This has not been lost on Danville’s leadership, which has sent representatives from its Office of Economic Development to the Craft Brewers Conference the last three years, setting up a large booth on the tradeshow floor in an attempt to attract people to visit or businesses to open in the city of about 43,000.</div>
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Change is already taking hold locally.</div>
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“This was a Bud Light town 10 years ago,” says Todd Sparks, 46, a lifelong resident of Danville, echoing a statement mentioned repeatedly and independently by locals, business owners, and city officials. On a June afternoon, Sparks was buying Alpine’s Duet IPA and Ommegang’s Rosetta Kriek at Vintages by the Dan to restock his fridge. It wasn’t too long ago he had to make a weekly, two-hour round trip to Greensboro, N.C., to find full-flavored beer, buying Magic Hat and Avery bottles across the border to bring home.</div>
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“It’s not a knock against Danville,” Sparks says of now buying packaged beer or getting a pint poured from a tap connected to a bright tank at Ballad Brewing, “but it almost feels like I’m traveling out of town.”</div>
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Ethan and Alex Brown of 2 Witches Winery & Brewing Co., the first craft brewery to open in Danville, Va. | Photo by Jack Sorokin.</div>
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It’s that kind of shift in focus and expectation that continues to pop up in nearby communities, and in similar places nationwide. Both Virginia and North Carolina have surpassed 200 breweries, and across a swath of the Mid-Atlantic, small towns see the success of beer in larger cities like Roanoke and Asheville and are wondering, ‘Why not us?’</div>
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“We need variety,” says Todd Tucker, president of North Carolina’s Surry County Economic Development Partnership, which oversees four municipalities with a combined population of about 73,000. “Like a lot of other rural communities, we’re losing our young people to bigger cities because they have more things to do and places to go. We need things like restaurants, shopping, and breweries to attract and retain our young people, because that’s the stuff they like. This is what’s going to get people to come visit, but also consider moving here.”</div>
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In the past two years, Tucker has focused his efforts on trying to get small production breweries to consider Mt. Airy, N.C., a city 80 miles west of Danville with just over 10,000 residents. Population growth has been flat for Mt. Airy and Surry County for years, Tucker notes, and beer can provide the kind of “value added” businesses a town like Mt. Airy needs, because a brewery brings people downtown and has the potential to keep them around to visit other stores and attractions.</div>
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Tucker also points out that the area already boasts some of the best schools in the state and offers lots of opportunity for outdoor activities like hiking or mountain biking. Adding one more thing young families might consider as valuable to quality of life could be a boon for the town. At the moment, a consistent point of marketing for Mt. Airy is to bill itself as the hometown of Andy Griffith, and to host an annual “Mayberry Days” festival to celebrate the actor’s beloved 1960s TV show.</div>
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“With the idea of ‘Mayberry’ and Mt. Airy, we’re kind of at this crossroads where a new generation of the community is coming up and wants to seek out something unique they haven’t yet experienced and can share with their friends,” says Taylor Clark, marketing and events director for <a href="https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/47070/" style="color: #46667c; text-decoration: none;">White Elephant Beer Co.</a>, a bottle shop that opened in Mt. Airy in 2016 with plans to add a 3.5-barrel brewery by 2018. “For us to progress as a city, we need to offer what others are offering and what’s missing here.”</div>
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Clark, 30, has lived in Mt. Airy his whole life. He’s proud of the nostalgia and feeling of welcoming comfort the town gives off, but also says it’s difficult to attract new residents to a place without a lot of special amenities and stores that close around 5:30 p.m., just a few hours before restaurants shutter at 9 or 10 p.m.</div>
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“In order to keep people here or draw them here, we have to provide something worth coming to,” he insists. That something, he thinks, is beer. Lager is White Elephant’s top draft seller, but Clark notes they still carry an array of styles, from fruited wheat beers to Imperial Stouts and funky Saisons.</div>
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Ballad Brewing head brewer John Andorfer and business operations manager Tim Meyer. | Photo by Jack Sorokin.</div>
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Clark believes a payoff in building local interest in beer is coming. <a href="https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/36486/" style="color: #46667c; text-decoration: none;">Creek Bottom Brewing</a>, a brewpub based in Galax, Va., recently opened a satellite restaurant in Mt. Airy. And there’s another brewery in planning that may set up across the street from White Elephant, Clark says. All of a sudden, this town of 10,000 might have three new reasons for visitors to come see what it has to offer.</div>
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That kind of interest—but perhaps moreso, hope—is a telling feature of how these small towns see the power of beer. It’s not just any kind of business that might present some level of economic advancement, but a galvanizing force that is meant to bring a community together, and bring more people to their community. For years, this has played out in the neighborhoods of large cities, but today it’s more achievable than ever for small towns looking for a boost in interest or simply a success story its residents can rally around.</div>
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“It has created for us an activity and opportunity for the folks who live here to enjoy downtown in a different dimension, but the [prominence] of our breweries is an opportunity,” says Sally Sandy, city manager for Morganton, N.C.</div>
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Interest in Morganton as a place for beer began in 2009, when <a href="https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/2446/" style="color: #46667c; text-decoration: none;">Catawba Valley Brewing Co.</a> moved a production facility from Asheville to downtown Morganton. But the city became a hot spot with a national profile with the opening of <a href="https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/33145/" style="color: #46667c; text-decoration: none;">Fonta Flora Brewery</a>, which gained prominence among drinkers thanks to an eclectic array of local- and foraged-ingredient beers that have twice won gold at the Great American Beer Festival.</div>
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In addition to local and regional beer enthusiasts flocking to Fonta Flora’s downtown taproom to buy bottles to-go, the brewery also hosts an annual “State of Origin” festival, which brings together 24 other breweries and about 500 beer lovers. Sandy notes that the festival typically draws attendees from about a dozen different states, many descending on Morganton for the first time. This spring, the brewery was named Burke County Attraction of the Year.</div>
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“That is all obviously marketing you can’t really buy,” she says. But that doesn’t mean Morganton isn’t doing that, too.</div>
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In recent years, the city’s advertising has changed to capitalize on beer’s popularity. Two billboards on Interstate 40 displaying happy drinkers, beer in hand, tell drivers “the rumors are true” about downtown Morganton’s fun offerings. A third sign sits on Highway 181, not far from the city.</div>
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Todd Steven Boera, brewer and co-founder of Fonta Flora in Morganton, N.C. | Photo by Jack Sorokin.</div>
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Sandy and other officials also use beer in conversations to spur interest among visitors. When magnet school North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics opens a second campus in Morganton in 2021, Sandy expects the city’s enhanced nightlife will be a recruiting tool for faculty and staff, thanks to the help of Catawba and Fonta Flora.</div>
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“There’s now this synergy among the breweries, our bottle shops, and restaurants, that creates a buzz because people who enjoy craft beer often talk to each other and share these kinds of experiences as word of mouth,” Sandy explains. “This is a kind of lifestyle that younger folks almost demand and they’re teaching some of us older folks that maybe we want that kind of thing, too.”</div>
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This is the dream so many other municipalities are hoping will become their reality, the talk of breweries succeeding in any size environment, with different populations and customer interest all driving tangible change. Twenty years ago, it was a new coffee shop that signaled the rise of a particular neighborhood or community. Today, it’s a different kind of beverage creating an economic buzz.</div>
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“Beer has always been on a kind of island here,” says Ethan Brown, co-owner of Danville’s 2 Witches Winery and Brewery. “People would travel between Danville and Lynchburg or Greensboro for beer, but I see them sticking around here now.”</div>
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Beer, with its grand, historic place as a social equalizer and mobilizer, is also generating ambition among cities, their officials, and local residents. There’s an excitement in conversations about what the industry can do for municipalities big and small. People see it as capable of building something special.</div>
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“It’s a reason for somebody to come to this area not just to live, but to play and have fun, and that’s the start of a vibrant community,” says Ballad Brewing co-founder Garrett Shifflett. “Take the buildings that are dark and vacant and put lights back on and give them life again. It creates one more reason for people to be here.” <span style="color: #e6a00a; font-size: 1.25em;">■</span></div>
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Vincent Puccio hopes to bring a whiskey distillery, retail store and tasting room to the River District by the end of the year.</div>
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He and his partner, William T. Willis, own and operate Dry Fork Fruit Distillery in Meadows of Dan in Patrick County. But they can’t sell their product on premises there because Patrick County does not allow liquor by the drink.</div>
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They plan on moving the entire production to downtown Danville from Meadows of Dan, Puccio said.</div>
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Danville — especially the River District — is becoming a destination for visitors, he said.</div>
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“You’ve got tourism and entertainment down there,” Puccio said. “It all works together.”</div>
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He pointed to events at Carrington Pavilion and the farmer’s market as examples. Also, visitors from up North and others passing through come to see the last capital of the Confederacy, Puccio added.</div>
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Dry Fork Fruit Distillery makes 100-proof and 80-proof whiskeys, including corn and fruit whiskeys. Flavors include blueberry, strawberry, blackberry and Damson plum. Its products are all-natural with no artificial flavors, Puccio said.</div>
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They make their whiskey using a steam process with stainless steel and no direct flame, he said. The distillery produces about 2,500 gallons of whiskey per year.</div>
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Sandra Puckett Belcher, director of marketing and tourism for Patrick County, said it was unfortunate that the county could lose Dry Fork Fruit Distillery. The business has attracted visitors to the area, she said.</div>
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“It’s heartbreaking, but they are a business and they have a product they want to promote to the fullest,” Belcher said.</div>
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Puccio’s and Willis’ original plan was to open the distillery near Willis’ farm in Pittsylvania County, according to a June 15, 2015 article from the Martinsville Bulletin. Although the Pittsylvania County Board of Zoning Appeals approved the location, the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors denied the zoning request.</div>
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In March 2014, Puccio and Willis filed for a special use permit to put the distillery at a former body shop on Chatham Road in Axton, according to the Bulletin. However, about 40 members of two churches on the road attended the Henry County Board of Zoning Appeals meeting to oppose the distillery, and the board rejected the request.</div>
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The duo later opened the distillery in Meadows of Dan.</div>
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Their whiskey is sold in about 38 ABC stores across the state. Two of their products — clear and strawberry whiskeys — are sold in Danville, Puccio said.</div>
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In Patrick County, Dry Fork Fruit Distillery can manufacture their products, but cannot sell them on premises, Puccio said. When the distillery opened about a couple of years ago, Puccio thought they could get legislation passed in the General Assembly to allow them to sell on site, but it did not happen.</div>
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Since Danville allows liquor by the drink, Puccio and Willis would be able to offer their products at their location and have a tasting room and retail store selling T-shirts, glassware and other bar products. They also would like to hold events at the distillery.</div>
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Patrick County Administrator Tom Rose said there are exceptions to the county’s prohibition against liquor by the drink. Primland Resort and Woodberry Inn are examples. Rose said.</div>
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“We could never establish tastings up there [at Dry Fork Fruit Distillery],” Rose said. “They were very adamant that they needed that.”</div>
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The Patrick County Board of Supervisors had no say in the matter, but sent a letter of support for an exception for the distillery to the state legislature, Rose said.</div>
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Rose said he was “extremely disappointed” the distillery could end up leaving Patrick County for Danville.</div>
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“They’ve been a huge attraction for us,” Rose said.</div>
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Danville City Council voted 7-0 during its Aug. 3 meeting to create a definition for distilleries and allow them in the city.</div>
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Planning Director Ken Gillie said Dry Fork Fruit Distillery would not have to seek City Council approval since a distillery would be considered a use by right in the River District.</div>
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They have submitted plans to the city, and if they are acceptable, the city would issue permits. The distillery would also have to apply for ABC and business licenses, Gillie said.</div>
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Danville Economic Development Director Telly Tucker said he doesn’t think the distillery will run into any obstacles in his office. There shouldn’t be any regulatory issues as long as they follow guidelines for building permits, Tucker said.</div>
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Distilleries are growing in popularity, “particularly with younger populations and in urban environments where you have redevelopment and folks moving back into cities wanting more diverse offerings,” Tucker said.</div>
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“They’re looking for craft beverages, they’re looking for something that is unique to a specific area,” he added. “It becomes a magnet for tourism.”</div>
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A pop-up event this week in the River District generated interest for a co-working space downtown, and owner Lenny Keesee hopes to sign a lease for the old Bobby Carlson studio on Main Street in September.</div>
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Between 40 and 45 people visited the pop-up space at 312 Main St. in Danville’s River District, and more than half of them requested sign-up packets by Friday morning.</div>
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“Several people told me that September would be better for them to sign leases,” Keesee said from behind the built-in desk in the old photographer’s studio. “That works out fine for us so we can make some changes.”</div>
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Keesee plans to add a full kitchen, move the conference room area downstairs, and add some partitions to the upstairs offices for a slightly more private area.</div>
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There is a similar option available in Ringgold through the Dan River Business Development Center, called Southside CoShare.</div>
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“I don’t have any problem with competition,” Executive Director Ralph Hogg told the Register & Bee on Friday. “I think there’s a need for that type of service, especially in the River District.”</div>
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Southside CoShare offers more support services than River District’s current plans, but does not have the “prime location” that River District Coworking’s downtown office offers. Southside also offers light industrial space for research, development and production of goods.</div>
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In addition to the co-working possibilities, Keesee is working on a hybrid membership for photographers to use the studio after business hours and during the weekends. He is also toying with the idea of renting the space out for parties and events. Both groups offer a variety of options for each person’s co-working needs.</div>
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“We’re optimistic,” Keesee said Friday morning. “If not here, maybe there’s another place that we need to be in.”</div>
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Keesee and Hogg define co-working as the use of a working environment by people who are self-employed or working for different employers.</div>
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“I feel like if he can’t make it successful, nobody will,” Hogg said with confidence. “It’s a necessity for Danville. I wish him well with that.”</div>
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After Lenny Keesee was told he could no longer work from home, he started looking into creating a co-working space in Danville with his wife, Lacey.</div>
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“It’s the bridge between folks running a business out of their home and going into your own dedicated office space,” Keesee said. “It allows entrepreneurs a tremendous amount of additional runway.</div>
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Keesee was with a company that allowed him to work out of his house until the company changed hands. He was given the option of moving to Charlotte, North Carolina, or leaving the company.</div>
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That’s what made him start looking into a co-working space as a compromise between working from home and working in an office.</div>
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He ended up leaving the company before he could pitch the idea, but he still wants to help others.</div>
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“They aren’t committing to a full lease and all the other expenses that go into your own office,” he said. “It’s all the entrepreneurs working together out of a shared environment, and helping each other out.”</div>
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Entrepreneurs can rent exactly the kind of space they need — whether it’s a seat at a conference table, a dedicated desk or their own office.</div>
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Working with Danville’s Economic Development Office and the Industrial Development Authority, the couple planned a pop-up event next week to gauge interest in the project.</div>
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The free pop-up event will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday-Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday in the former Bobby Carlson studio, 312 Main St, Suite 200 in Danville.</div>
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“We’re excited about this opportunity, Danville Economic Development Assistant Director Cori Teague Bobe said. “We feel that co-working spaces really add to the entrepreneurial spirit that’s developing within our community. This will give entrepreneurs space to gather and share ideas, and expand and market their companies throughout the region.</div>
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“A lot of older businesses have a stigma against working from home,” Keesee said. “We got some traction and some interest, so we figured we’d see if we could do it.”</div>
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They hope to have 15 to 20 people sign up to be founding members, at which point they will sign a lease that will suit the needs of their members. Keesee said he hopes to sign a lease at one of the IDA’s properties downtown.</div>
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“I think we’re getting close to finding our charter members,” Keesee said. “If we don’t, we’ll probably drop back and re-evaluate and see if we can do another pop-up event and see what we can do.</div>
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“We’ll have a conference table set up, a few small offices, etc all free of charge,” Keesee explained. “We want to show people in Danville what co-working is all about.”</div>
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A taco-tequila bar, a grocery store and a brewpub will be opening on Craghead Street’s 500 block, owner Rick Barker announced Monday.</div>
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Fresh, local ingredients and a choice of indoor and outdoor dining options will be part of each new business.</div>
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Stephan Parry, managing partner of the Parry Restaurant Group, plans to open a taco-tequila restaurant/bar this fall, featuring 10 6-inch taco options and more than 100 brands of tequila.</div>
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It will be located in the Hughes Building at 530 Craghead St.</div>
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The restaurant group has 13 restaurants throughout Virginia, including two other taco-tequila bars: El Jefe Taqueria Garaje in Lynchburg and Tuco’s Taqueria Garaje in Roanoke.</div>
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“We’re glad we attracted Steve to the River District,” Barker said. “He’s at the top of his game … with an ability to develop a menu to a local market; it’s very localized and offers quality food and atmosphere.”</div>
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The interior will be themed after the Mexican holiday, “Day of the Dead,” which honors the lives of family members who have died.</div>
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Plans call for seating for 54 diners inside, with additional seating for 66 outside.</div>
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“We’ll be able to use the outside dining most of the year,” Barker said. “We’ll have gas heaters and fire pits.”</div>
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Barker said they have tried to tie the opening of the new businesses — and the apartments above— to the completion of the sidewalk renovations the city is doing and the parking lots being built by the Industrial Development Authority.</div>
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A new market also plans open next door to the taco-tequila bar.</div>
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Steve DelGiorno — who owns the 616 Farm to Table restaurant on North Main Street as well as the Chatham Public House and Le Petite Rebelle in Chatham — will open the Craghead Market, featuring healthy, organic and minimally processed food options. Fresh baked goods, fresh flowers, staple grocery items, fresh produce and meats, beer, wine, dairy and frozen foods will be carried, as well as prepared foods and salads from a 14-foot salad bar.</div>
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Delivery to River District locations will be available.</div>
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“It will all about food,” DelGiorno said. “It will be a scaled-down version of Whole Foods or Weaver Street Market in Hillsboro, North Carolina.”</div>
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Bulk foods, such as different types of flours and granolas, will be available by the pound.</div>
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“It will have everything you need to go home and cook a great restaurant-quality meal,” DelGiorno said.</div>
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The third project announced Monday is a partnership between Barker and DelGiorno to open Preservation Ale and Smokehouse at 518 Craghead St. — the former Gibson’s Dry Prizery — in 2018.</div>
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The restaurant will serve up southern barbecue with some twists, incorporating Nashville-, Memphis- and Korean-style flavors, DelGiorno said.</div>
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An on-site brewery will have its own seating behind double doors leading from the restaurant, so people sampling the brews will be surrounded by the equipment making those brews, Barker said. The brewpub will offer rotating taps of lagers, ales and specialty beers.</div>
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“The building was slated for demolition, but we offered to buy it and restore it,” Barker said. “It’s the oldest tobacco prizery downtown.”</div>
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Renovations to the historic, 1871 building are set to begin this fall, including the addition of a courtyard for outside dining.</div>
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DelGiorno said he has been asked if Danville needs another brew pub, in addition to Ballad Brewing on Craghead Street and 2 Witches Winery and Brewing Company on Trade Street.</div>
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“We did a tremendous amount of research into this,” DelGiorno said. “The data says the more breweries clustered together, the more successful they become.”</div>
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Multiple breweries attract travelers in a two-hour drive time range around the cluster, he said.</div>
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“One won’t attract travelers, but if there are more, they become a destination,” DelGiorno said. “It’s like the food truck rodeo they had — 4,000 people came to that, a lot of them from out of town.”</div>
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Seven new high-end apartments over the Hughes and Venable buildings will also be ready shortly, Barker said. All have different layouts, with one or two bedrooms and baths, as well as a variety of finishing touches, like different cabinet styles in each of the kitchens.</div>
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Additional commercial spaces will be available.</div>
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Barker and DelGiorno have several projects in the works beyond this block of Craghead Street, including a partnership at the soon-to-be-completed Crema & Vine in the former gas station at 1009 Main St., and projects they are working on individually.</div>
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DelGiorno said the projects being done in the River District — by all of the development groups currently working on various buildings — will help revitalize the whole city.</div>
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“The more we transform the River District, the better Danville will be,” DelGiorno said.</div>
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Corrie Teague Bobe, assistant director of economic development for the city, said city officials are pleased with how the revitalization of the River District is coming along.</div>
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“We’re excited to see the 500 block of Craghead Street come back to life,” Bobe said. “These three businesses are unique and the concepts were requested from visitors to the River District — both from here and from other places — over the past few years.”</div>
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A new trolley bus route is coming to Danville next month.</div>
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Starting Aug. 4, the service will be available 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. every Saturday and 4 p.m. to 11 p.m. the first Friday of each month.</div>
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The Mainline trolley bus route will run from Ballou Park to the River District (including the Danville Science Center/Community Market/Crossing at the Dan) to North Main Street at Moana Place.</div>
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It will include 40 stops along the route, said Danville Transportation Director Marc Adelman.</div>
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Fares will be $1 per ride with a half-fare discount for seniors and disabled people until noon on Saturdays, Adelman said. Children 12 and under accompanied by an adult will ride for free.</div>
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Signs will be at each stop displaying boarding times for that particular location, Adelman said. The trolley bus will hit each bus stop location every 45 minutes, he said.</div>
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The route’s schedule — based on responses from a survey — is geared toward shopping and other activities in the River District downtown, Adelman said.</div>
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“It helps provide shopping opportunities and recreational activities,” he said, adding that it could increase activity in the area around the Community Market.</div>
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The route will complement shopping and dining in the River District, he added.</div>
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“This is a common service provided by many transit systems across the country,” Adelman said.</div>
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It will also provide transportation in the North Main Street area including the North Theatre, 616 Farm to Table, and Moon River Thai.</div>
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Danville City Councilman James Buckner introduced the idea and a subcommittee was formed. Buckner — who chaired the subcommittee — credited its members for helping make the idea a reality. The members were Linwood Duncan, Earl Reynolds, Alexis Ehrhardt, Debbie Flinn and Ernecia Coles.</div>
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The route follows Danville’s old Mainline from years ago, Buckner said.</div>
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“It could really serve the community in so many different ways,” Buckner said.</div>
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The trolley bus will be one of two trolleys that the city has. They were renovated last year and one has been used as a spare for Danville’s fixed-route bus service and for special occasions for reserved rides for 10 or more people, Adelman said.</div>
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Bus trolley features include new flooring, vintage lights and a front destination sign.</div>
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Adelman said the new route may not cost the city anything, depending on ridership volume. The city will receive state and federal funding to subsidize the service’s operating cost, he said. Cost for operating it will be $30 per hour of operation.</div>
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The trolley buses each have a capacity of 26.</div>
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Other services coming next month include expanded bus service to Goodwill Industries and Centra Danville Medical Center on Aug. 1, and a new Averett Cougar Express bus route.</div>
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Danville River District Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16797343370379112226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47300004694096643.post-63122381107147576482017-07-17T12:33:00.000-04:002017-07-17T14:28:19.653-04:00Former Ritz Theater purchased in River District<div class="asset-content subscriber-premium" itemprop="articleBody" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">
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The former Ritz Theater building at 534 Spring St. has been purchased with an eye toward renovating the structure for a new life in the River District.</div>
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Agostino Pugliese and his wife, Brandi — also owners of Dell’Anno’s Pizza Kitchen on Main Street — purchased the building for $26,500 in May, according to city records.</div>
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Pugliese said he has no firm plans for the building, other than to secure the site and “see what the options are.”</div>
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He said he wants to find a good use for the building after he fixes water damage to the interior.</div>
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“Maybe in the fall we’ll decide what the best solution for it is,” Pugliese said.</div>
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Most recently the building has been used as a church, but originally it housed the city’s only black-only theater. Pugliese said the original theater seats are still in the building, though the stage and other areas have suffered water damage.</div>
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He declined a request for a tour of the interior from the Register & Bee, saying it needs repairs before tours can be arranged.</div>
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The 5,680-square-foot building most recently housed the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith, which owned the building. While still owned by the church, Corrie Teague Bobe, assistant director of the city’s economic development department, said she was able to tour the building.</div>
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“It’s a really neat building,” Bobe said. “It still has the stadium theater-style seating and you can see where the projection room was.”</div>
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Bobe said she was not approached by the Puglieses prior to their purchase.</div>
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“I’m as interested in finding out what will be done as anyone,” Bobe said.</div>
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Danville residents remember the days when it housed the Ritz Theatre, long before the civil rights movement and desegregation happened.</div>
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Fred Motley — a Danville storyteller, actor and theater director — said he remembers the Ritz Theater, but in bits and flashes, since he was very young at the time.</div>
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“I remember that it was the all-black theater and that, like all theaters, it was always dark,” Motley said. “My mom would check the newspaper to see what was playing there.”</div>
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Motley said he remembers the Rialto Theater better, because he went there when he was a little older.</div>
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“It was where the school board building is now; blacks sat upstairs in the balcony and whites sat downstairs,” Motley said. “In the summer, we’d collect bottle caps to get in free. On Sundays all the kids got together after church to go to the movies there.”</div>
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Kirby Wright — founder/owner of Negril Inc., which serves residents with intellectual or mental disabilities, and W&W Luxury Limousine Service — said he fondly remembers the Ritz Theater, where he worked during high school.</div>
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“I used to be the projectionist. I worked there from ninth to 12th grade,” Wright said, and laughed. “My mother made me go to college; I didn’t want to … I was making $65 a week, and teachers only made $45 a week. I didn’t want to leave it.”</div>
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But his mother won that argument, Wright said.</div>
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Wright laughed again as he talked about becoming the projectionist.</div>
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He started off working at the theater part-time, taking tickets at the door and moving up to working the concession counter. Wright said he became friendly with the projectionist — who started to teach him how the equipment worked.</div>
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One night, Wright said, the projectionist and manger of the theater got into an argument, and the projectionist walked out in the middle of a movie, with the reel running.</div>
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The manager was in a panic, Wright said, until Wright told him he could run the projector.</div>
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“I got the job full time and I was only about 15,” Wright said.</div>
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The theater offered more than movies all week long. At least one night a month, there was a live performance.</div>
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“A lot of good artists came and performed,” Wright said. “They were real nice shows, stage shows with big names, and local artists. I’d shine the spotlight on them.”</div>
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There were five theaters downtown then, Wright said.</div>
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“We couldn’t go the Capitol Theater at all; it was only for whites,” Kirby said. “There was the Rialto, where we had to sit in the balcony, and the Dan Theater and Virginia Theater, where we had to sit in back.”</div>
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Motley, too, said blacks didn’t bother looking up what was playing at the Capitol Theater.</div>
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“You knew you wouldn’t be able to go,” Motley said.</div>
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The Ritz was considered “all-black,” though whites were not specifically forbidden from attending the movies and shows. Wright said no whites ever came to the theater that he was aware of.</div>
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Both Wright and Motley said they were pleased someone was planning to restore the former theater.</div>
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“But it does bring back memories buried a long time ago,” Motley said.</div>
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The Danville bike share program officially opened Friday with a brief ribbon-cutting ceremony.</div>
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The Danville Rides Bike Share docking stations will consist of 10 locks and five bikes, allowing ride</div>
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rs ages 18 and older to travel from one unit to another without having to make a return trip, according to a news release from Danville Parks and Recreation.</div>
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Stations will be located at the Biscuitville, Main Street Plaza, Crossing at the Dan and Dan Daniel Park Riverwalk Trailheads and in front of the Danville Train Station.</div>
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The Crossing at the Dan and train station trailhead lockers opened Friday.</div>
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Bikes come outfitted with a retractable locking cable to allow riders to secure the bike to any fixed object during the rental period, the release stated.</div>
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Bikes can be accessed through the Zagster mobile app available for iPhone and Android. Bikes have a number that needs to be entered into the app to unlock the docked bike. Payment can be made through the app.</div>
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The first hour is free. Each additional hour costs $3.</div>
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Another new business is close to opening in the River District: Cottontail Weddings & Events.</div>
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Owner Matthew Switick said he expects the construction — which is in its finishing phase, with air conditioning being installed last week — to be completed in the next few weeks and for the doors to open in early August.</div>
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The 3,600-square-foot space at 600 Craghead St. does have a historic feel, with original wood floors, beams and columns. However, elegant touches are being added, like large chandeliers, lighting in the floor around the columns and other decorative touches.</div>
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The space will include seating for about 150 people, with room left for dancing and live music, Switick said.</div>
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There is also a dressing room and warming kitchen.</div>
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“We’ll have the tables, chairs and tablecloths; people would bring in their own caterers, who would bring in food and dishes,” Switick said.</div>
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Switick said he has worked in the hospitality industry before and was looking for a place to open his own business in North Carolina.</div>
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“I’ve been thinking about it since college,” he said. “I always wanted my own business, but wasn’t sure what kind.”</div>
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When he married his wife, Shelly, four years ago, they held the event at Starlight Meadow in Burlington, North Carolina.</div>
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“A friend there really got us excited about the possibility of doing something similar,” Switick said.</div>
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They moved to the Raleigh area and he looked for property where he could open a barn-type event place like Starlight Meadow — but couldn’t find the right place.</div>
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Instead a family friend — Shelly is a Danville native — recommended they look at the River District, and in December 2015 toured the space on Craghead Street.</div>
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“I knew it was the right place,” Switick said.</div>
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And with Ballad Brewery next door, he said he is excited about the possibility of working with the brewery for some events.</div>
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Switick said he found the city’s economic development department a big help, particularly Corrie Teague Bobe, the assistant director of the department.</div>
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Bobe said Switick did not qualify for historic tax credit help in renovating the building since that is reserved for building owners/developers. Instead, the city was able to provide a $20,000 River District Enhancement Grant to help cover the costs of making the space right for Switick’s business.</div>
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“The grant reimburses business owners for capital improvements they make,” Bobe said.</div>
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A signed performance agreement for the grant requires Switick invest $60,000 in capital improvements, have two full-time employees and to stay in the location for at least seven years.</div>
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The department doesn’t just hand over the money even with the signed agreement, Bobe said. Instead owners have to turn in receipts proving what they invested before any money changes hands.</div>
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Bobe said she is looking forward to Cottontail Weddings & Events openings.</div>
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“It’s going to be a beautiful space,” Bobe said. “It’s the type of space we get asked about often for weddings and special events people want to have in the River District.”</div>
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Ross Fickenscher, one of the partners who developed 600 Craghead St., confirmed all of the commercial spaces in the building have now been leased and the apartments on the upper floors are filling fast.</div>
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“We’re excited about [Cottontail Weddings & Events] and think it will do well,” Fickenscher said.</div>
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Danville River District Newshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16797343370379112226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47300004694096643.post-68659940818188591832017-07-10T09:35:00.001-04:002017-07-10T09:35:50.562-04:00More properties under development in River District<div class="asset-content subscriber-premium" itemprop="articleBody" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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Two new projects were approved by the River District Design Commission recently, and while details have not been released, this adds two more properties to those under development in the district.</div>
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The 9,900-square-foot former warehouse at 534 Bridge St. has been approved for signage, but only for size and placement. The drawings submitted by Jeff Bond, of Solex Architecture, did not disclose the wording that will be used, including the name of the business.</div>
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Bond did not return calls asking for details on the project.</div>
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Corrie Teague Bobe, assistant director of Danville’s economic development department, said the commission also approved removal of some vinyl on the exterior of the building and replacing it with metal.</div>
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According to city records, the building is owned by Thomas and Margaret Hardy, of Danville.</div>
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Another building getting attention is at 301 Lynn St., which is being developed by Earthmark Development — the same group that renovated the Smiths Seed Building next door.</div>
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The building has been ordered to be demolished, but Stephen Staats, of Earthmark Development, was at the commission meeting to get permission to turn the property into a private parking lot for an upcoming project. A second building on the property — a former prizery — will not be demolished.</div>
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The brick and granite from the demolished building will be used to create walls for the parking lot, Renee Burton, senior planner for the community development department, said.</div>
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She also noted that Earthmark Development was applying for historic tax credits on the project, and the state Department of Historic Resources required the “footprint” of the building to be used for enclosing the lot, as well as the reuse of original materials.</div>
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Staats did not return a call from the Register & Bee for information about the project.</div>
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Bicycles should be available for rent in the River District and other parts of Danville later this month, according to city officials.</div>
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The bikes have arrived and are being assembled at Bicycle Medic.</div>
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Danville Parks and Recreation Director Bill Sgrinia said he hopes the city’s new bike share program will be up and running — with bicycles available at locations in the River District and other areas — in about two weeks.</div>
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There will be five racks holding five bikes each to start, Sgrinia said. Rack locations will be at Main Street Plaza, the Crossing at the Dan (with two racks), Dan Daniel Memorial Park trailhead, and the area behind Biscuitville on Riverside, he said.</div>
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The first hour of use per rental will be free, with a possible charge of $3 per subsequent hour, Sgrinia said. The free first hour offers a strong incentive for people downtown to be physically active. The idea is to promote health and wellness, Sgrinia said.</div>
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Users would create an account and rent the bikes by entering a credit card number through an app, “Zagster.” It can also be downloaded online at <a href="http://zagster.com/" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: content-box; color: #b86759; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">zagster.com</a>.</div>
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The app will show where bike stations are located.</div>
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Danville City Council approved the proposal for the bike share program in February. The annual cost for the program will be about $45,000.</div>
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The cost for the program’s first year was proposed to be paid for with a transfer from unallocated money from the special revenue fund.</div>
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City officials are seeking sponsorships to help pay for the program, Sgrinia said. Anyone interested in being a sponsor can call Sgrinia at (434) 799-5200.</div>
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City Manager Ken Larking said the stations still need to be installed. The city has one or two sponsors for the program so far, Larking said.</div>
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The program is not expected to pay for the service, Larking said. City officials hope sponsors pay the bulk of the cost.</div>
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“This is a nice addition to our city, the River District and the Riverwalk Trail,” Larking said.</div>
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A report released in May recommended safe and continuous bicycle routes and improved conditions for pedestrians in the River District.</div>
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EPR, PC in Charlottesville recommended ways for Danville to enhance safety and ease of travel for pedestrians and bicyclists downtown.</div>
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The report, presented to City Council in May, proposes changes including traffic signal equipment to guide bicyclists and pedestrians through signaled intersections and bicycle commuter stations featuring parking locations, racks and bicycle maintenance stands providing tools for basic repairs.</div>
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The report also recommends safe and continuous bicycle routes in the River District, with “wayfinding” information to major destinations.</div>
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“It’s to make walking and biking in downtown Danville more safe,” Drew Draper, principal planner with EPR, said of the report’s recommendations in May. “It’s to complement what the city is already doing.”</div>
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The report also recommended public education activities and programs to develop a “more robust” bicycle and pedestrian culture in the city. They could include teaching skills and etiquette for safe bicycle travel and enhance rider safety and confidence.</div>
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City residents told consultants Danville has “an underdeveloped bicycle and pedestrian culture,” with drivers “failing to respond safely to bicycle and pedestrian travelers,” according to the report. Also, residents who provided comment expressed a perception of “limited community energy directed to encouraging activities such as bicycling, walking and running,” according to consultants.</div>
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EPR also found there is limited “wayfinding” information available to attract visitors to trails, or trail users to other River District destinations.</div>
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