
{"id":16188,"date":"2011-02-24T11:38:04","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T16:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=16188"},"modified":"2011-02-24T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T16:38:04","slug":"board-approves-new-options-for-300-east-main","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/02\/24\/board-approves-new-options-for-300-east-main\/","title":{"rendered":"Board approves new options for 300 East Main"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Kirk Ross<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>Staff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>CARRBORO \u00e2\u20ac\u201d At it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meeting Tuesday night at Town Hall, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen cleared the way for additions to the former VisArt  Video space at 300 East Main St., opening the door for a possible expansion and move of Cat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Cradle along with other changes at the property.<\/p>\n<p>The board approved a change to the center\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s existing conditional-use permit to allow owners Main Street Partners to expand the front of the current Cradle and the former VisArt  space out to the edge of the existing canopy and construct additional  space at the back of the property. VisArt  closed its doors last month.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Van Sant of Main Street Partners said the expansion and move is one of several options under consideration as owners prepare for a much larger expansion on the site.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153With VisArt  empty, it gave us some options,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Right now, there are no firm plans for the Cradle move or anything happening at the building.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Although the VisArt  space is slightly smaller than the existing Cradle, the expansion approved Tuesday night would raise the floor space from 6,400 square feet to 8,800 square feet. In approving the plan, the town waived town parking rules that would have required five more spaces at the site.<\/p>\n<p>Van Sant said Main Street Partners went ahead with the request so that it could move quickly once any decision is made.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153We wanted to make sure we had all the boxes checked,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Van Sant said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But even for this space, nothing is finalized.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>She said there is also hope that the major development planned at the site could start moving forward soon. The proposal, including a hotel and parking deck located on the easternmost portion of the site, have been stalled since credit markets tightened following the town\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s approval of the development in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There seems to be a thaw in credit,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Van Sant said, adding that Main Street Partners could have an announcement about the project coming within the next month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s meeting Tuesday night at Town Hall, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen cleared the way for additions to the former VisArt  Video space at 300 East Main St. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16225,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16188\/revisions\/16225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}