Abstract:
The L. Vincent Lowe, Jr., Business Award is the highest preservation award given to a state business for promoting protection of architectural resources in the state. Frank Gailor and his family-run development company, Hedgehog Holdings, received the 2004 award for his work in the historic rehabilitation of Raleigh's Pilot Mill. The mill was one of six cotton mills built in Raleigh in the 19th-century.