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Update on historic status for John McDonald’s original cafeteria

March 20, 2022 Growing Business

March 20, 2022

The Charlotte Observer caught up with Beatties Ford Road entrepreneur Christopher Dennis, and longtime area resident Elloree Erwin, and published the piece below about Dennis’s efforts to seek historic status designation for the building that restaurateur John McDonald used for the cafeteria that bore his name at Beatties Ford Road and LaSalle Street.

The story is on the Observer’s website here and in a PDF here.


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