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Now home to real estate company Coldwell Banker (lower photo), this building was constructed during the mid-1970s to house the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Owned by the town of Sylva, the building is located on a portion of what was once known as the “Triangle,” an in-town grassy area home to ball games and Easter egg hunts that was bisected around 1974 with the construction of Grindstaff Cove Road, which was built as part of the Sylva Bypass project. Herald Publisher Jim Gray remembers going to a county commissioners’ meeting around that time to enlist county support for the Chamber project. As best he can remember, Sylva and Jackson County boards split construction costs, Gray said. Before the building was completed, Chamber offices, which had been located at the end of Main Street where Sylva Insurance is now, were temporarily housed upstairs in The Sylva Herald building in the newspaper’s current advertising office. The Chamber of Commerce opened its doors in its present location – Main Street’s renovated Hooper House – in 2002. – Herald file photo (top) and Herald photo by Nick Breedlove |
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