Headquarters

Main Office, Lab, and Classroom

Catawba Riverkeeper's headquarters is located at Dynamo 31 (102 Main Street, Suite 100, McAdenville, NC).

The relocation from Charlotte to McAdenville was part of Catawba Riverkeeper’s strategic decision to make its home base along the river. From the new headquarters space, Catawba Riverkeeper is able to work more efficiently, host more educational programming, and engage the community in our mission to protect local water quality.

Creating new revenue streams from fee-based educational programming, field trips, kayak rentals, retail operations, event space rental, and the sale of local craft beer and wine will help sustain the Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation as it enters its next chapter.

“We are thrilled to be realizing one the dreams of our founders – to have an ‘on-the-water’ headquarters,” says John Searby, Executive Director of Catawba Riverkeeper. “To have a partner like Pharr who is committed to adaptive reuse of this historical mill and developing McAdenville around our natural resources of the river and trails makes it even better.”

Catawba Riverkeeper is grateful to the donors who’ve made this game-changing opportunity possible, especially to Xylem Watermark for funding the lab and Duke Energy for funding the classroom.

C.L. Helt and Myers & Chapman were the design and construction leads, respectively, of the Dynamo 31 development.