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Today, with the $1.3 million Siloam School project completed, White has again turned her focus to the Excelsior Club. “It’s too far gone.”Shawn Kennedy, owner of Kennedy Properties & Development, says the Excelsior Club building is too far gone and can’t be saved. Terri White, president and CEO of the Charlotte Museum of History, says she believes the building that once housed the Excelsior Club can be saved. That’s the difference.”An icon of Black historyFor the better part of 73 years, the Excelsior Club occupied a singular space in Charlotte’s Black culture. The Excelsior Club building on Beatties Ford Road has been empty since 2017.