Will Randolph Scott be a quick draw?

• Position: Renters look for office space in Randolph Scott Place

Can Charlotte's most famous movie cowboy lasso tenants into a contemporary building in a Victorian neighborhood?

George Doggett, president of Doggett Advertising Inc., thinks so. "I've gotten a lot of calls and a lot of interest in Randolph Scott Place," he says. Doggett is betting the upscale office space he has built on the site of actor Randolph Scott's boyhood home in downtown Charlotte's Fourth Ward will rustle up some renters. In May, he had at least one verbal commitment.

In a career that spanned three decades, Scott made 100 movies, including Tall Man Riding, Shoot-out at Medicine Bend and Ride the High Country.

Scott had asked to be buried in the town where he'd spent his youth, and when he died at age 89 in 1987, he was brought back home to a family plot. The Rev. Billy Graham, a longtime acquaintance...