Renovation will round out Pack Square.

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Asheville's downtown Pack Square and its local-government plaza will undergo a $12.6 million renovation, to be completed in 2007. A $4 million federal grant brought funding to about $7 million, which the private Pack Square Conservancy says will allow work to begin next summer. The square, which covers 6 acres and is surrounded by some of the city's oldest commercial buildings, will...