If I can get a deal like that, then I’ll take it as the best deal I can get. If I can get sufficient concessions from them on affordability and historic preservation, then I would withdraw my objections to the retail. “They can’t get the retail without a rezoning. “They believe they can do better financially with a plan that includes a retail component,” Besse said. If he’s able to identify grants for historic preservation, he said he thinks he might be able to present the developer and ownership group with a financially attractive alternative. Ardmore is on a national registry of historic neighborhoods and the apartments were built between 19, Besse said. Besse said the developer, Robin Team of Carolina Investment Properties in Lexington, told him that if he blocked the rezoning, they would drop the retail component and simply proceed with the plan to build new residential units - an option that would sidestep the requirement for a rezoning.īesse said he asked the developer and representatives of the ownership group if they would give him time to try to come up with an alternative plan to preserve at least some of the housing. Besse was opposed from the outset. The apartment complex is the largest concentration of affordable housing in his district, he said, and while he generally supports mixed-use development, this is one area of the city that doesn’t lack for retail.Īt a later meeting with the architect and the ownership group, Besse said he told them the proposal was “ a nonstarter” as far as he was concerned.
It’s the kind of affordable-living environment that is becoming increasingly scarce in our city.”īesse said an architect hired for the project approached him in January and outlined the proposed redevelopment. “It’s located in an area that is safe, and is in walking distance of retail jobs and the hospital. “The rent for one bedroom is in the $500s and for two bedrooms is in the $600s,” Besse said. But he found that he really liked the apartments, which are within short walking distance of Thruway Shopping Center, Whole Foods and Harris Teeter, and ended up staying longer than he had initially planned.Īlong with elderly neighbors like Nichols, the racially diverse population of the apartment complex also includes young families and working professionals. In the midst of a divorce, he moved into the Cloverdale Apartments in 2011, with the expectation that it would be a short stay during a transitional period of his life. “For her to remember that, when she can’t even remember what she ate 15 minutes ago,” she said, “it’s really sad.”īesse, who represents the Southwest Ward on city council, by coincidence and circumstance is a victim of the impending dislocation himself. Her mother’s clarity made an impression on Billings. “I really, really hate to leave,” Nichols told her daughter. 7, Billings received some devastating news through a flier left outside her mother’s door by city Councilman Dan Besse: The building’s owners would be tearing down the Ardmore Terrace and Cloverdale apartment complexes - with roughly 350 units distributed through about 90 buildings - and erecting a new, mixed-use development with retail and housing. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.On. It includes Queen Anne and Bungalow/craftsman architecture. It includes works designed by Hall Crews and by Northup & O'Brien. The district consists of at least ten platted residential developments from 1910 through 1924 as well as three large apartment complexes from 1947 through 1951, one of which was controversially demolished in 2021. The district encompasses 2,093 contributing buildings and two contributing sites. The Ardmore Historic District is a 600-acre (240 ha) national historic district located at Winston-Salem, Forsyth County, North Carolina.
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