Famous artist may have to get back to her roots. (Tar Heel Tattler).(Maya Ying Lin)

Business North Carolina | June 1, 2003| | Copyright

Where some see art, others see compost. For the second time in a year, Charlotte must deal with disposing of public art -- this time, nine giant holly bushes in a driveway. In the first episode, the local community college caused connoisseurs to howl when it blowtorched a sculpture into scrap.

The bushes are in a quarter-mile-long median at the Charlotte Coliseum, which the city is selling to help pay for a $270 million downtown arena. Likely buyer Crescent Resources, Duke Energy's real-estate development arm, will tear it down and uproot the bushes unless, by some ...

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