Downtown Raleigh store with checkered past to be demolished. What’s next?

The former home of Taz’s Supermarket on South Wilmington Street has changed hands and is slated to be torn down.

The move closes the chapter on a troubled downtown Raleigh property nearly three years after a fatal stabbing inside the store led to the owner’s murder conviction and a $1.3 million wrongful death settlement.

This month, Empire Properties, run by Raleigh real-estate magnate Greg Hatem, purchased a cluster of mostly historic buildings at 104 E. Hargett St., and 201, 205 and 209 S. Wilmington St., including Taz’s, for $2.7 million, according to Wake County records…

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