Development Beat: Renovation Roundup

Today on the Development Beat, we take a look at some recent renovation projects, including the beginning of a relocation of the Tobacco Road Sports Cafe from 222 Glenwood to the former home of Natty Greene’s on West Jones Street.

Development Beat: Terrible Tuesday

Today we take a look at the history of the original North Carolina State Penitentiary, which started out as a series of log-cabin detention cells and eventually morphed into massive, gothic structure by the time construction on the actual facility was completed in 1884, nearly 20 years after the State Legislature first authorized the project.