The most popular real estate news this week has got to be that Common Market is coming back to South End. The beloved shop/eatery/bar should be back in business sometime in the late spring of 2017. The new location is at 235 West Tremont Street, just blocks away from the old location.
The new location for Common Market was the home of Carolina Prepress, a printing equipment manufacturing company founded in Charlotte in 1987 as a division of JR Cole Industries. It is unclear at this time where Carolina Prepress will reside, but JR Cole is located at 435 Minuet Lane.
Common Market was displaced by an 8 story office tower that will include the new regional headquarters for Dimensional Fund Advisors. Common Market closed their doors of their South End location back in July.
A new building will be built at the site on Tremont Street. The plans call for a 7,000 square feet of the building for Common Market. Roughly 3,000 of that should be for an expanded bar, deli, coffee and market. The other 4,000 square feet should be for indoor/outdoor space possibly with a stage for live music.
Common Market will be just one of the tenants in the new space, the rest of the building is slated for warehouse, restaurant, and other retail. It is not clear at this time if Food Truck Friday will move to the new location or if it will stay in Plaza-Midwood.
The new location is convenient to the rail trail and the Blue Line light rail. Much revitalization has occurred in and around this area in recent years with no end in sight to the projects ahead.
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