If you’ve driven by or stopped at the corner of Main and Academy Streets in the last two weeks you’ve seen some big changes and lot of activity outside.

The four big 8×8 ft steel frame windows along Academy Street have been removed. Three of them have been cut down to sidewalk level and will soon become storefronts.  The fourth (nearest the rear) will be a picture window. They are all boarded up for now, but wow will it look different come mid-August! In these spaces will be windows and storefronts that will retain the ‘look’ of the old steel window grids by incorporating simulated divided lites (SDL’s) into new dual pane, low-E windows and upper lites throughout the building.  This has always been a great feature of the building and are we are excited to retain it. Click to see recent pics of the how The Mitchell is changing the look of upper East Academy Street.

This past week a 17 ft deep hole was dug in the rear parking lot to access a sewer line that runs N-S behind the building. Tapping into this line will allow for bathrooms, kitchen or bar in the basement of the building without the use of lift stations. The hole has now been filled and all that is visible is a manhole and a brand new sewer cleanout. Click to see men working on the sewer behind The Mitchell Building.

Also in the rear, the solar inverters have been installed.  All we need now is permanent power to the building. Progress Energy has installed a power pole just off the rear corner of the building. Power will be run underground to a series of meter bases and disonnects…one which will be for solar net-metering. It won’t be long now before the solar panels are activited. Click to see pics of inverters and solar installation at The Mitchell.

We will give an update soon about what’s going on INSIDE - there’s lots to tell!  Cellar 101 is coming soon and there are still plenty of prime retail and restaurant spaces for lease at The Mitchell building in Fuquay-Varina.