CT town ready to convert historic textile mills into housing. It’s been a decade in the making.

With a new $2.5 million state grant, a Connecticut town is on track to complete an extensive environmental cleanup of the ...
WSPA

Old textile mill remodeled into apartment complex

PENDLETON, S.C. (WSPA) – Pendleton is in the process of turning what used to be a textile mill into an apartment complex, calling it “Pendleton Mill Lofts.” The Cheney Mill has a long local history, ...
WFMY News2

Historic Greensboro Textile Mill Nears End Of Major Facelift

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Developers are breathing life back into the historic Revolution Mill that is expected to reopen in 2016. The mill is being redeveloped into a campus full of apartments, restaurants, ...
Mainebiz

Betting on Biddeford | Developers hope to transform two former mills downtown

Developer Doug Sanford has an affection for old buildings. Rather than building new projects, he’s spent 20 years buying and rehabilitating old structures ˆ mostly small apartment buildings and ...
Marketplace

In Columbus, Georgia, textile mills adapt to survive

This is part one in our series examining what manufacturing in the economy looks like today in the United States. You can read part 2 here. Manufacturing in this country has changed. We make things ...
WYFF

Remaking the Mills: A WYFF 4 special that explores the history of textiles in South Carolina

I FEEL LIKE I BURNED SOME CALORIES JUST WATCHING THEM. SOME GOOD NEWS. WELL, WE’RE EXCITED HERE, TOO, BECAUSE TONIGHT AT WYFF 4 AIRS OUR LATEST CHRONICLE. IT’S CALLED REMAKING THE MILLS. AND ALL THIS ...
Time

Textron’s Trick

“They’re saying I’m a wild man. If I turn the trick, they’ll say I’m a genius.” So said Royal Little, the mild, 50-year-old president of Textron Inc., whose unconventional production ideas have built ...