
{"id":2835,"date":"2008-06-19T06:52:21","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T14:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=2835"},"modified":"2008-06-19T06:52:21","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T14:52:21","slug":"news-brief-unc-foundation-buys-franklin-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/06\/19\/news-brief-unc-foundation-buys-franklin-property\/","title":{"rendered":"News Brief: UNC Foundation buys Franklin property"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University and town officials announced a deal Friday by the UNC-Chapel Hill Foundation to purchase Granville Towers and University Square in a deal valued at $45.75 million.<\/p>\n<p>At an announcement at Chapel Hill Town Hall, UNC Board of Trustees Chairman Roger Perry said the university has no immediate plans to alter the site, but that a future development would respect the commercial frontage on Franklin Street. Perry said the property would remain on the tax rolls under the deal with the foundation.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nUNC Chancellor James Moeser said redevelopment of the lot would likely include a parking facility to serve the downtown and the university\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Arts Common venues.<\/p>\n<p>Perry, Moeser and Chapel Hill Mayor Kevin Foy said they expect to solicit community input in developing the plans for the site, which also borders Cameron Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University and town officials announced a deal Friday by the UNC-Chapel Hill Foundation to purchase Granville Towers and University Square in a deal valued at $45.75 million. At an announcement at Chapel Hill Town Hall, UNC Board of Trustees Chairman Roger Perry said the university has no immediate plans to alter the site, but that&#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-2835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835","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=2835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}