BUILDING NC.

A new, modern campus social hub for East Carolina University. A renovated post office that capitalizes on the trend of food halls. A new home for America's favorite pastime in Fayetteville. One of the state's oldest cotton mills redeveloped for corporate office space and modern loft apartments. The sixth annual Building North Carolina awards highlight some of the state's most impressive commercial real estate projects completed between July 1,2018, and June 30,2019, based on design, innovation and impact on their communities.

OVERALL DESIGN

EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY STUDENT CENTER GREENVILLE

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: JOINT VENTURE OFT.A. LOVING CO., COLDSBORO, AND BARN H ILL CONTRACTING CO., ROCKY MOUNT; IN ASSOCIATION WITH METCON CONSTRUCTION INC., PEMBROKE

ARCHITECT: PERKINS AND WILL, CHICAGO

OWNER: UNC SYSTEM

COST: $122 MILLION

SIZE: 220,000 SQUARE FEET

This year, East Carolina University unveiled its Main Campus Student Center, a project about 20 years in the making. The original plan called for a renovation of the Mendenhall Student Center that was constructed in the 1970s, but the university's rapid growth required a new building. "Student centers only have one job: to be everything for everyone," says Dean Smith, director of Student Centers at ECU. Taking input from students at town halls, the center houses a black box theater, Dowdy Student Stores, Dr. Jesse R. Peel LGBTQ Resource Center, Ledonia Wright Cultural Center, multiple lounges, meeting spaces, a 14,000-square-foot ballroom, six dining venues and a gaming center. ECU incorporated plenty of technology into the three-story design, including View smart windows that automatically tint according to the weather; hot-water coils beneath the floor for invisible heating; and a 42-foot-wide digital display, used to host outdoor movie nights, watch parties for athletic events and video game tournaments. The building's design ties students back to the university, with ECU's motto, fight song, and history engraved in different parts of the center.

COMMERCIAL PROJECT

DURHAM.ID DURHAM

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: BARNHILL CONTRACTING CO., ROCKY MOUNT ARCHITECTS: DUDA|PAINE ARCHITECTS LLP, DURHAM

OWNER: LONGFELLOW REAL ESTATE PARTNERS LLC, DURHAM

COST: $100 MILLION

SIZE: 350,000 SQUARE FEET

Part of the 1.7 million-square-foot innovation district in downtown Durham, the two new 175,000-square-foot Durham.ID buildings on Morris Street add corporate-office space and form a new life-sciences research hub. Anchored by We Work and Duke Clinical Research Institute, the buildings include retail amenities on the ground floors, rooftop restaurants and terraces, and office and research space on each of the seven floors. The complex includes a courtyard plaza that provides public space to showcase work from local artists and an eight-story parking deck.

RENOVATION PROJECT

MORGAN STREET FOOD HALL RALEIGH

GENERAL CONTRACTOR: A.B. GOODRICH CONTRACTING LLC, RALEIGH

ARCHITECT: NEW CITY DESIGN GROUP PLLC, RALEIGH

OWNER: NIALL HANLEY, HIBERNIAN CO., RALEIGH

COST: NA

SIZE: 22,000...

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