Ron Tanner took an abandoned frat house in Baltimore, removed three dumpsters worth of trash, 60 empty beer kegs, and one five-gallon bucket of frat boy feces, and turned it into a home — all to impress a girl. Now he’s coming to Charleston to talk about his book From Animal House to Our House: A Love Story.
Chef Nathan Thurston is making the move from Kiawah’s Ocean Room at the Sanctuary to his own spot downtown on Upper King in what used to be an antique mall. Architect David Thompson is working on the plan above for Stars, which will have a wood-fired oven and a plancha.
We like to call it NoMo, short for “North Morrison,” but you might call it the Neck. It’s where the City Paper offices are located, and with businesses like Cone 10 Studios, Michael James Moran Woodworked Furniture, and REV Foods’ renovation of the Forge, it’s turning into a creative corridor. Lindsay and Kate Nevin are hoping to do their part by renovating the building at 1600 Meeting Street Road, turning it into an idea center with a black box theater, studios, a cafe, and more.
