Forsite Development’s ReVenture Park was named Business Conservationist of the Year by the N.C. Wildlife Federation. ReVenture and other winners of the 53rd Annual Governor’s Conservation Achievement Awards will be recognized at a banquet in Cary in September. Founder Tom McKittrick opened Charlotte’s first “eco-industrial park” on a 667-acre site that once was home to
June 15, 2016 In northwest Charlotte along the Catawba River, on the once heavily polluted home of a former textile dye manufacturer, a variety of alternative energy and recycling businesses are sprouting at an innovative commercial real-estate development. There’s an aquaculture project producing duckweed, which can be used as feed for animals or fisheries. Nearby,
June 15, 2016 Charlotte-based Forsite Development got its start buying and rehabbing shuttered industrial buildings in small towns throughout the Carolinas. Now, the firm is becoming a leader in a more sophisticated line of business: acquiring contaminated industrial sites and assuming the responsibility to clean them up. Last week DevelopCLT profiled Forsite’s pioneering eco-industrial park,
Forsite Development has leased a 10,000-square-foot facility at 5046 Old Pineville Road in Charlotte to start-up Three Spirits Brewery. Three Spirits Brewery features a window-showcased 10-barrel brewing system and English pub design accessories such as bar tap handles that resemble old gaslights adorned with top hats. The brewery is the only one in Charlotte –