Hex Coffee Kitchen & Natural Wines expects to open next month at its new, larger spot in Camp North End.
The full-service restaurant’s breakfast and lunch menu will focus on Japanese-inspired breakfasts and popular items from Hex’s other restaurant concept, Stable Hand, such as avocado toast and porridge bowls. Hex and Good Bottle Co. opened Stable Hand three years ago on Remount Road in South End.
In the evening, Hex Coffee Kitchen will shift to bar snacks and a chef-created small plate menu that will complement natural wines.
Read MoreSkillPop is switching things up. Starting Wednesday, Feb. 22, you’ll be able to attend its expert-led classes and workshops in person at Camp North End.
Haley Bohon founded the company as a pop-up in 2015, but since 2020, SkillPop Anywhere has served customers virtually with classes on cooking, photography and knitting, as well as business-focused workshops on networking, sales tactics and more.
Now, the company is transitioning into a hybrid model. In addition to the Camp North End classes, SkillPop will also offer a subscription-based “Class of the Month” for virtual learners.
Read MoreBolton & Menk, a Minnesota-based civil engineering firm, is establishing Charlotte as its permanent Southeast headquarters with a move into Camp North End's Gama Goat building.
The decision comes on the heels of the 2021 merger between Bolton & Menk and Charlotte-based professional services firm ColeJenest and Stone. The newly combined firm signed an 11-year lease for 24,600 square feet of office space at 1701 N. Graham St., the northern portion of the 140,000-square-foot adaptive-reuse building.
About 55 employees will work from the new office when it opens in mid-2023. The firm is moving from its space at 200 S. Tryon St., which ColeJenest and Stone has occupied for about 20 years.
Read MoreCustom hat retailer Fitteds Charlotte is relocating to Camp North End.
The brand has snapped up 800 square feet at 701 Keswick Ave., Suite 104. It expects to open there in March.
Harlem native Giovanni Brown is behind Charlotte-based Fitteds. It builds on his love of hats — a constant in his life for as long as he can remember.
Read MoreThe adorable penguin statues are all over Camp North End - on the roofs, near the food stalls and shops. Kadeeja explains why on this segment,
Read MoreA plan for a 32-story downtown Austin condo tower containing 220 new residences at the southwest corner of 14th and Lavaca Streets is now in review with the city, according to recent permit filings — one of several condo projects sought by local developers Pearlstone Partners throughout downtown in recent years, and one of only a few residential towers planned specifically in the recently-booming northwest corner of downtown Austin since the 1960s. Image: Pearlstone Partners / ATCO Properties / STG Design
Read MoreA 76-acre adaptive reuse development on a former industrial site north of Uptown, by ATCO Properties & Management
Biggest move of 2022: The popular development has become a hub of local small businesses, many of them Black-owned. This year, it also hosted the second annual BayHaven Food & Wine Festival and was part of the Aggie-Eagle Classic weekend.
What we’re watching: Expect to see more openings and events in 2023, from a dedicated event space to a cocktail lounge and speciality market.
Read MoreA boutique cocktail lounge called Room Service and an upscale specialty market called Stay Inn will open at Camp North End in the spring of 2023.
They’re the brainchild of Camp North End business owners Rachel Hopkins (of Black Moth Bars [charlotte.axios.com]) and Jules Zanoni’s (of Grow [charlotte.axios.com]).
Read More“Here in Charlotte, where I’m at, there’s this great space called Camp North End, and Camp is an area of the city that was a bunch of warehouses, a big industrial space, and over the last few years it’s been developed into an art space, a performance space, a retail space, office spaces, and it’s lively and varied and transitional,” Cooke said. “Anybody who’s been to Camp North End has experienced a few things that are familiar … but a few things that are unfamiliar — occupying an old warehouse space in a way that they didn’t expect to before, or walking across train lines that used to be used for shipping goods and are now part of a public walkway promenade. This has a lot to do with giving over a lot of that space to artists.”
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