The Union Pier redevelopment footprint is adding a digit.

A company affiliated with Charleston hospitality investor Ben Navarro 's Beemok holding company has snapped up a high-profile property across from the historic City Market and adjacent to the roughly 67-acre Union Pier marine terminal he's acquiring from the S.C. State Ports Authority.

The Carroll Building, a mostly 1980s-era office complex that had been seeking a buyer for at least six years, was recently sold for the sharply reduced price of $11.5 million, according to Charleston County real estate records. The seller, Carroll Building LLC, had owned it for more than 30 years.

Beemok acquired the vacant 51,000-square-foot structure though 24 North Market LLC. The new owner is now seeking state approval of an environmental c

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