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NATTY GREENE’S BREWING CO. KITCHEN & MARKET TO OPEN AT REVOLUTION MILL

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GREENSBORO, NC (May 10, 2016) – Natty Greene’s Brewing Co. is planning to open an exciting new restaurant concept at Revolution Mill.

Natty Greene’s Kitchen & Market will be another extension of the brand in addition to Natty Greene’s pub in downtown Greensboro. The restaurant will be done in partnership with Self Help Ventures Fund, which is renovating the 9,000 square foot Carpenter’s Shop building at Revolution Mill to house the new restaurant.

The restaurant will bring together The Butcher, The Baker, and The Beer Maker. It will feature an in-house butchery, marketplace, mezzanine, open kitchen, dining area, high table bar area, and an outdoor patio featuring bar and lounge seating. The patio will be a dramatic outdoor dining area built over the mill’s former reservoir pond just next to North Buffalo Creek.

“Natty Greene’s Kitchen & Market brings together the best of the South. Not only will we continue to handcraft all our beers on tap, we will also bring in fresh meats and produce daily,” said Kayne Fisher, co-founder of Natty Greene’s Brewing Co. “Our base menu will feature shares, make your own meat and cheese boards, salads, and sandwiches with fresh made bread and hand cut meats. At night, we’ll bring out “Today’s Cuts and Sides”. The cuts will be whatever our butcher has brought in that day; at least one beef, pork, chicken, and fish option will always be on the board. The sides will be created from what is available from local farmers that day as well, along with a few steadies ranging from collards to mac n cheese, true Southern staples. All of this will happen in the open kitchen, to again further the customers' experience by allowing them access to see exactly how their food is being prepared.”

The Market concept of Natty Greene’s Kitchen & Market will be another element of the restaurant. The Market will stock the daily cuts, sides, sauces, and even beer and wine for customers to purchase to go.

“This is a spectacular space, within a gorgeous redeveloped part of Greensboro’s history,” said Fisher. The Kitchen & Market concept in a setting like this will be a destination for people from the Triad and beyond.”

The restaurant is part of a $100 million redevelopment taking place at the historic Revolution Mill campus, which includes 250,000sf of Class A office space and creative studios, 142 apartments, event and performance venues, and a planned connection to the downtown Greenway system. The Kitchen and Market will occupy a building formerly used as the textile mill’s Carpenter's Shop, which boasts giant windows, original timber beams, and overlooks Revolution's iconic smokestacks and North Buffalo Creek.

“Revolution Mill and Self-Help are ecstatic to have Natty Greene’s Kitchen and Market locating here,” said Self-Help’s Tucker Bartlett. “Natty’s is a Greensboro institution and their restaurant concept starts an exciting new chapter in the history of both Natty’s and Rev Mill. We had always hoped for a destination restaurant that would anchor that part of the campus, and this concept certainly fits the bill. The Natty’s folks have been great to work with—we see them as partners in the continued success of this project.”

“We’d also like to thank the City of Greensboro for supporting this partnership between Revolution and Natty Greene’s.” The City of Greensboro is partially funding the creation of parking and related infrastructure that is critical to allowing customers convenient access to the new restaurant.

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Revolution Mill Announces Major Anchor Tenant

Thursday Revolution Mill announced it's first major tenant will be LT Apparel Group.

"LT has been a leader in the textile industry for over 50 years and we couldn't be more excited to welcome them here,” said development manager Micah Kordsmeier.

Once a textile plant, the new space will house the designers who create products for Adidas and Carhartt children's lines in the United States.

"What we do is we design all of the apparel while taking into account inspiration from the parent companies because we want some consistency with the brand,” said Anne Garvey, the Adidas and Carharrt Kids Division President. “We do all of the design and all of the artwork."

Although the company is based in New York, it's had ties to the Gate City for several years.

"About 12 years ago they purchased a division of VF Corporation it was called, 'VF Playwear' and specifically it was the brand Healthtex. Healthtex has been in Greensboro since 1990,” said Garvey.

For Garvey, being able to work in the mill is a dream come true.

"It's come full circle for me because the first time I visited Greensboro was to visit Cone Mills and now to be working in the mill it is exciting."

Keeping the building's roots in tact was part of the developer's key goals.

"Textile mills in Greensboro were really the centers of the community and the economy,” said Kordsmeier. “The mills grew up and housed thousands of workers and they built whole neighborhoods around them and the whole community revolved around that mill and that's something we're really trying to do here as well."

By 2017 company leaders said the Greensboro area can expect job opportunities within the corporation.

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REVOLUTION MILL CHURNS FORWARD INTO PHASE II

The folks behind the revitalization of the old Revolution Mill property are moving forward again, this time with even bigger and better projects. The property will continue its growth as a small business center, but with additional emphasis in Phase II on making this a destination property for work, home and recreation.

Nick Piornack, Business Development Manager for Revolution Mill, said initial work on Phase II of the project began this past spring, but things were really picking up steam now.

“The project is slated to run up to about $100 million by completion,” he said. “Once this phase is done, we’ll have about 520,000 sq. feet of renovated space under roof.”

He explained that the original Phase I development plan for the property renovated about 130,000 sq. feet of the property into office space.

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City signs off on incentives for Natty Greene's, Revolution Mill

With the passage of a nearly $390,000 incentives package, it appears Natty Greene’s Brewing Co. will likely consolidate and expand its business at the Revolution Mill campus in Greensboro.

Greensboro City Council unanimously signed off on the deal at its Tuesday meeting, with Natty Greene’s to receive up to $387,500 to help offset an investment of at least $14.5 million and the creation of 27 jobs by the end of 2018.

Natty Greene’s is seeking to create a destination brewery and tasting room on a campus that includes a new restaurant in what co-founder Kayne Fisher has said will be “Natty Greene’s Disney World — this full experience, this interactive experience.”

The new campus would replace its production brewery now located on Gate City Boulevard across from the Greensboro Coliseum Complex, with Natty’s expecting to build a new brewery that can produce more than 100,000 barrels of beer annually — more than triple its current capacity.

A new restaurant would be located in the 10,000-square-foot former carpenters shop that sits adjacent to the main Revolution Mill building and borders a creek.

Fisher told the Triad Business Journal last year that with the opening of a new campus, Natty’s plans to close or at least rebrand its downtown Greensboro brewpub with a new, larger restaurant adjacent to the new brewery.

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Revolution Mill developers hope to capture excitement, success of American Tobacco complex

The American Tobacco Campus in downtown Durham is now touted statewide and nationally as a resounding success.

The expansive historic mill that churned out Lucky Strike cigarettes for generations rebounded from decades of decay to become home to more than 100 companies and spark an ongoing renaissance in Durham's core.

But there was a time when it sat poised like Revolution Mill, the former Cone Mills flagship in Greensboro now undergoing a $100 million renovation by Self-Help Ventures Fund of Durham.

And on Tuesday, Self-Help invited community and business leaders to Revolution to hear how the developers of American Tobacco carved a path to recovery during the past 10 years, with the hope that a similar future lies ahead for the former Cone property.

Michael Goodmon is vice president of real estate for Capitol Broadcasting Co., which has redeveloped American Tobacco, and said local involvement will be crucial to the success of Revolution Mill.

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Broker selected for $100M Revolution Mill redevelopment

CBRE Triad has won the commercial leasing rights to represent Revolution Mill, a $100 million redevelopment of the former Cone Mill.

Revolution Mill, a massive complex of brick buildings and smokestacks off Yanceyville Street in Greensboro, was the first flannel mill in the South and secured Greensboro’s position as a major employer in the industry for decades until it closed in 1982.

Now, owner Self-Help Ventures Fund is working to breathe life back into Revolution Mill, which currently is being converted to provide more than 242,000 square feet of rentable Class A office space, as well as two restaurants and about 26,000 square feet of studio space for creative office users such as artists and entrepreneurs.

“We are pleased to have the CBRE team and its worldwide network of resources representing Revolution Mill,” said Malcolm White, director of marketing and leasing for Self-Help Ventures Fund. “We believe CBRE is well-positioned to attract prospective tenants from the Triad, the Southeast and beyond who are attracted to a beautifully-restored mill — with huge windows, oak columns, hardwood floors and vintage hardware — that is located only minutes from downtown Greensboro."

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$100 million Revolution Mill redevelopment project ramping up for 2016 finish

GREENSBORO − The group that is doing a redevelopment of the historic Revolution Mill textile mill complex said today that it will ramp up construction and finish the project by the third quarter of 2016.

Self-Help Ventures Fund, owner of Revolution Mill and the surrounding 45 acres two miles north of downtown Greensboro, said it closed recently on a financing package and began an accelerated construction schedule to complete the redevelopment of the mixed-use, destination campus by the third quarter of 2016, according to a news release.

Development Manager Micah Kordsmeier said in the release that the project will exceed $100 million and will include 142 one and two-bedroom apartments, 240,000 square feet of office space, and multiple dining options.

The company will also offer space for 20-30 working artists, galleries, and a variety of indoor and outdoor event spaces.

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Developer behind downtown Greensboro successes joins Revolution Mill team

A developer with a South Elm Street resume has been brought aboard as business development manager at Revolution Mill District, the former Cone Mills campus being redeveloped by Self-Help Ventures Fund.

Nick Piornack will be charged with forming partnerships and increasing exposure for the 45-acre property that also includes the neighboring Olympic Mills building.

"We're delighted to have Nick's energy, his commitment to Greensboro, and his ability to forge productive partnerships that will catalyze investment and create a new destination that people from across the Triad can enjoy," said Micah Kordsmeier, development manager for Revolution Mill.

Piornack, a managing partner of Raleigh-based Momentum Development Partners, has seen success in downtown within the last several years with the redevelopment of buildings off of South Elm Street into restaurants WORX and Spice Cantina as well as the event space, The Rail Yard.

Piornack serves on the board of Downtown Greensboro Inc. and was named the group's "Man of the Year" last year for his work on South Elm. He is also a founding member of the South End Neighborhood Group which is working on historic preservation in downtown.

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Exclusive: Building purchase adds another piece to Revolution Mill campus development

Self-Help Ventures Fund has purchased a final piece of the Revolution Mill property in eastern Greensboro that expands the mixed-used campus the Durham-based nonprofit is developing.

In a multipart real estate deal that got underway late last year, Self-Help this month completed its purchase of the Revolution Mill House at 2004 Yanceyville St., a nearly 100-year-old portion of the former Cone Mills plant that's operated as a storage unit business.

Jim Overton, Revolution Mill project manager, said last year Self-Help purchased the outstanding note for the building from its previous owners, Frank Aumanand Jim Peeples, who were also the previous owners of the remainder of Revolution Mill.

The idea in that initial step was to help Auman and Peeples to continue to unwind their investment in the former mill, while also paving the way for Self-Help to eventually purchase both the building and the storage business, which Auman and Peeples have operated as "A Self Storage Center."

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8 great public bathrooms in Greensboro

In honor of April Fool’s Day, we decided to have a little fun with this column. This month, we are noting our favorite bathrooms in Greensboro. Yes, it is entirely from a female perspective. And yes, it is entirely foolish.

1. Any Quaintance-Weaver property: Each is distinctive, reflecting the unique vibe of each restaurant or restaurant/hotel. We love the large black and white romantic posters at Lucky 32 (1421 Westover Terrace) and the contemporary style of Printworks Bistro (702 Green Valley Road). The understated elegance at Green Valley Grill (622 Green Valley Road) pairs well with its surroundings. The walls hold richly framed art work, and real flowers adorn the sink.

2. Vigilante Crossfit (1819 E. Spring Garden Street): It’s a guy’s kind of gym. With barbells and ropes. Metal lockers and wooden benches. And yet, the bathroom is really nice — and clean — for such a gritty gym. And the step-in, glass-encased shower is pretty cool too. Don’t worry it’s a single bathroom, not one for multiple users.

3. Josephine’s (2417 Spring Garden Street): The ladies room is small and feminine. But what we really like are the complimentary toiletry items. Because sometimes you need to pick your teeth, and you can’t predict when you’re going to need a safety pin.

4. The Forge (115 West Lewis Street): It’s a makerspace with a “hard area” designated for metal and woodworking, and a soft space for collaboration and socializing. But to see what’s so amazing about its bathrooms, you must look up. The tin ceiling tiles are more than a century old, and they are beautiful.

5. Revolution Mill Events Center (1160 Revolution Mill Dr.): They’re clean and opulent and spacious. Each stall is privately secured with its own wooden door. And you’ve got to check out the brass monkey toilet paper holders.

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In the News: Revolution Evolution

An iconic structure from Greensboro’s past as a textile empire continues its renovation for a second life as a mixed used complex.

Revolution Mill is part of a nearly two million square foot campus hidden away just blocks from State Street and Greensboro County Club.

Brothers Moses and Ceasar Cone started Revolution Mill in the 1890s after realizing that it would be easier to process the raw materials needed to make denim and other textiles closer to where the cotton was grown. Cone Mills operated the building until 1982.

Revolution Mill is symbolic of Greensboro’s history as a textile capital. Historic preservation efforts led by Self-Help Ventures Fund of Durham and architect Eddie Belk, are continuing to turn the space into a business and residential center with a style that fuses industrial and modern.

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In the News: Revolution Mill sold at auction to Self-Help

Self-Help Ventures Fund's bid of $8 million in a foreclosure auction for the historic Revolution Mill Studios property in Greensboro was successful and the Durham nonprofit will take ownership of the building.

In an announcement, Self-Help said it is currently making plans for future development of the former Cone Mills cotton mill on Yanceyville Street. The developers who started the restoration of the mill several years ago, Frank Auman and Jim Peeples, renovated a large portion of the building but halted construction in 2011 because they lacked financing and defaulted on debt payments.