This view of Trojan Village shows the new facade improvements, including metal roofing that replaced the wooden shingles on the front of the building.

Renovation work is complete at Trojan Village Shopping Center

Twenty-eight years after its opening, the Trojan Village Shopping Center has undergone its second renovation, with the help of Miles Companies and F.G. Dillard and Sons Construction. The renovation that began earlier this year officially completed last week, according to business owner D.W. Miles.

The center, which opened in 1977, has grown from housing a small handful of businesses, to being the base of 28 businesses. The first renovation to the center took place about 10 years ago, when Lowes Foods, the anchor store, received an expanded entryway. Throughout the center, decorative angles and awnings were added and posts were moved out to make sidewalks larger.

“The center is 28 years old and are the healthiest its been since its inception,” Miles explained. “We’re pleased with that. That doesn’t mean it just happened, its’ been hard work from ourselves the quality of our merchants and the things they’ve done. We’ve invested in keeping it up to date in terms of appearance, cleanliness and continued to maintain its quality as well. The merchants have done the same thing. Most of them have invested in new signage and new merchandise. We’ve got 28 merchants in the center and it’s all full, except for one little small shop.”

The renovation process began in the fall with the decor of the center. “We wanted it to look like a mountain scene,” Miles said. “That’s why we’ve used the native stone and the cedar shakes, the rock and the board and batten, not just mortar and brick. The First Citizen’s Bank, the first facility built there, the decor was built into their plans to look like the mountain scene.”

Copper was selected by the Miles as the color that would match the theme of a mountain scene, which the family wanted to run throughout the center.

Susan Miles Reinhardt explained, “The copper went well with the rock and with the wood that’s in the shopping center. It just blended well with the natural theme that we maintain through the whole shopping center.”

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