Meanwhile, the city’s planning board is expected to review a revised site plan for the long-dormant former Kingsdown mattress factory site in downtown Mebane at its next meeting.
Called The District on Washington, a preliminary plan filed earlier this year by a South Carolina developer calls for the construction of a mixed-use development that would have 87 three-bedroom townhouses and 9,600 square feet of retail space at the corner of West Washington and Third streets.
Mebane’s city council had approved a rezoning request for a different developer in October 2022 to build 217 apartments in four-story buildings and retail space for the two blocks along West Washington Street, between Mebane’s city hall and library, that had been occupied for decades by the Kingsdown mattress factory, one of the city’s oldest and most successful industries…