In Charlotte, N.C.'s burgeoning North End Smart District, Camp North End has been a Ford Motor Co. assembly plant, a site for the U.S. Army, and a Rite Aid distribution center. Up next for the 1-million-square-foot property is the city's largest-ever adaptive reuse project. Owned by the New York–based developer ATCO Properties & Management, the forthcoming mixed-use development will combine office, residential, and hospitality spaces with a retail corridor along the site's southeast side. For the retail corridor's Keswick Platform, a space that will contain seven pavilions for local businesses, ATCO wanted inventive façade ideas. In November, it launched a design competition for "young, up-and-coming Black architects in the Charlotte region," including architecture students, designers working in the profession, and solo practitioners, according to a ATCO press release.
