Paul Scribner News Today

The project will feature 80,000 SF of retail space, anchored by a 37,000-SF Whole Foods store and two North Carolina-based restaurants: Firebirds Wood Fired Grill of Charlotte and Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen & Bar of Asheville.

The space nerds poured into town by the thousands in NASA T-shirts, booking every last hotel room but leaving them empty. Instead they double-parked on roadsides and bridges, pitched prohibited tents in parks and slept in running cars. Diehards staked spots along the banks of the Indian River a full day early.