1898 Waxhaw cotton mill being converted to apartments, restaurant space (PHOTOS)

A Charlotte developer is breathing life back into a 119-year-old cotton mill with an apartment and commercial development in downtown Waxhaw.The Mill on Main project will combine 63 apartments with 10,000 square feet of restaurant and commercial on N.C. Highway 75 near town center.Developer Brian Cillian, partner at DHD Ventures, says he has a lease for a 6,500-square-foot, Neapolitan-themed restaurant that will offer craft beer. But the restaurant doesn’t yet have a name.Cillian says the&