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THE UPSIDE OF DOWNTOWN
A new bakery brings a tired town back to life.
Dustie Gregson ASHEBORO, NC
POPULATION: 25,863 PEOPLE EMPLOYED: 40
BUILDINGS SAVED: 3
The first time Dustie Gregson dragged her husband, Andy, inside the 85-year-old red brick office building on Church Street, part of a shuttered hosiery mill complex, he had three words for her: “Are you kidding?” Then three more: “This is awful.”
In theory, Dustie agreed with him. Like the other abandoned manufacturing buildings downtown, this one, with its wood-paneled walls and circa-1960 green carpeting, reminded everyone why Asheboro had been named one of the fastest-dying towns in America. “But all I could see were the beautiful old windows,” she says.
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