From Staff Reports 

Earlier this month, Kassinger Development purchased 130 Charlotte Street in North Asheville, the lot on which Fuddruckers is situated. 

The developer intends to build a mixed-use complex with more than 200 residential units and 17,000 square feet of commercial space.

 Prior to the purchase, Kassinger had run the idea by neighbors and completed a traffic impact analysis. 

Details are still in the works and negotiable. 

No plans have been submitted to the city’s design review process, which will be required.

 The site has been home to the fast-casual burger joint since 1986. 

While Fuddruckers has become somewhat of an institution, the combination of apartments and shops may be more conforming to the existing area.

 The city is already conducting a master-planning process to shape development in the north Charlotte Street corridor.

Meanwhile, the Ashvegas website reported that Suzanne Escovitz, president of a local neighborhood association, issued an email recently, asking neighbors to offer up their opinions of the proposal to the developer, the Asheville Planning & Zoning Commission and Asheville City Council.

Ashvegas added, “Escovitz writes that the plan includes ‘several hundred apartment units” on the lot, as well as new ground floor retail spaces. 

There are green building elements to the construction, and a number of units will be set aside and rented as “affordable,” she wrote.