Historic tenant house on Alexander Farm / Photos by Jason Benavides
Aug. 19. The tenant house on Alexander Farm was making its way to the corner of Westmoreland and W. Catawba Thursday afternoon. The historic structure was jacked up and towed across a field to its new site.
The tenant structure is significant because so few are left in a once-agricultural county where sharecropping was commonplace. Historian Dan Morrill of Preserve Mecklenburg was on the scene much of the afternoon.
The $110-million mixed-use development includes plans for a Lidl grocery store, a Papa John’s Pizza, commercial space, 70 single-family homes and a 145-unit active adult complex. If all goes according to schedule, some stores could open in the fall of 2023.
