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BUSINESS BRIEFS: Food Lion site, Park Ridge, Van Winkle

The old Food Lion building has sold and is on the market for lease.

Maverick LLC sold the 35,000-square-foot property to a commercial investor for $2 million on July 1, according to Henderson County land records.
“I showed it two times last week and I got a call this morning,” said real estate broker Jimmy Edney, who is marketing the lease. “With the moving in of Publix and Ingles, being right between those, it’s the hottest location in town. We’ve got a lot of inquiries. Business is good and things are happening.”

Home construction down slightly

New home construction inched down by 3 percent in the fiscal year that ended June 30 while new commercial buildings fell by 16.7 percent, according to the Henderson County Inspections Department.
Despite the overall strong housing market, new homes did not show a strong gain in 2015-16 over the same period a year earlier. Homebuilders took out permits for 543 residential units over the one-year period, down from 560 in 2014-15. New commercial jobs fell to 55, from 66 a year earlier. Permits for new manufactured homes were exactly level, at 158.
The value of residential construction, at $106.5 million, edged up by 2 percent. The value of new commercial work plunged by 54 percent, to $27.3 million. Overall, new construction was worth $133.8 million, down 18 percent. The biggest gain was in commercial remodeling and additions, which were up 19 percent, to $22.8 million.
The first six months of 2016 also lagged behind the construction pace of 2015. The number of new houses and apartments, 322, was down 18.5 percent while residential remodeling climbed by 7.8 percent. Overall, construction value for the first half of this year fell by 33 percent, to $72.3 million, compared to $107.8 million in the first half of 2015.


Park Ridge adds psychiatrist


Norfleet Photo 8.2016NorfleetKathryn Norfleet, M.D., is joining Park Ridge Health Primary Care Behavioral Health in a role that will work closely with primary care colleagues at Parkway Medical Group in Asheville, Park Ridge Health South Asheville and Park Ridge Health Laurel Park.
Norfleet completed her residency and a fellowship in psychosomatic medicine at the University of Washington, Department of Psychiatry, in Seattle and attended medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is board-certified in General Psychiatry and received sub-specialty training in consult-liaison psychiatry, working closely with primary care physicians to care for patients as part of a health care team.
She cares for adult patients age 18 and older who experience behavioral health concerns, including depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis.
To learn more, call 855.PRH.LIFE (855.774.5433) or visit myPRH.com.

SECU grant buys produce across WNC


The charitable foundation of the State Employees Credit Union is seeing the results from the first year of a three-year grant to fight hunger.
In Western North Carolina alone, the first-year portion of the grant purchased more than 420,000 pounds of fresh produce to feed people across MANNA FoodBank’s 16-county service area.
In Henderson County, the grant provided 24,225 pounds of fresh apples, carrots, onions, potatoes, and sweet potatoes — foods that are desperately needed in WNC for their nutritional content.
The three-year, $1.2 million SECU Foundation grant is in partnership with the North Carolina States Association of Feeding America Food Banks, and is set to provide 6 million additional meals to North Carolinians seeking emergency food assistance through 2018. The grant supports food purchase at the six North Carolina-based Feeding America food banks. In 2015/2016, MANNA FoodBank used the money to procure fresh produce, which, according to MANNA’s internal partner survey from 2015, is the most sought-after food category in the 16-county WNC service area.

Kilgore joins Van Winkle firm

BJKilgore headshot PRBJ KilgoreAttorney Samuel "BJ" Kilgore has joined the Trusts and Estates team of the Van Winkle Law Firm.
Kilgore completed his undergraduate degree at Appalachian State University and earned his law degree from the Law School at Campbell University. Following law school, he developed a trusts and estates practice at a small firm in Raleigh. He is an avid sports fan, and enjoys the outdoors and the mountains. He serves as a North Carolina Wills for Heroes Committee volunteer and previously served on the Wake County Bar Association Athletics Committee. A native of Banner Elk, Kilgore lives in Asheville with his wife and daughter.
He will practice estate planning as well as trust and estate administration, and resolution of disputes and controversies.

The law firm’s Trusts, Estates and Elder Law team includes three fellows of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, three board-certified specialists in estate planning and probate law, one board-certified elder law attorney, two certified public accountants and two attorneys with master of laws in taxation degrees.