http://www.chapelhillnews.com/"A Boston architecture firm has been tapped to come up with a new design for University Square.
Elkus Manfredi Architects was selected from six finalists to design the mixed-use development on the 12-acre plot along Franklin Street currently home to the shopping plaza and Granville Towers.
The firm was chosen by the Chapel Hill Foundation Real Estate Holdings and its development partner, Cousins Properties, partly because it has worked on similar projects before, including the South Campus Gateway, a massive mixed-use project at Ohio State University. It has also done design work on the Central Campus plan at Duke.
The Chapel Hill foundation is a non-profit arm of UNC. It bought the land for about $46 million and plans to rework an area officials say is dated."