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Harris Teeter tops Antiquity grocery list (access required)

By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: May 16,2013

It wasn’t the developer’s first choice and it was a long time coming, but Harris Teeter is the grocer most likely to anchor the first stage of commercial development in the mixed-use Antiquity community, off N.C. Highway 115 against Cornelius’ border with the town of Davidson.


Childress Klein issued year’s largest building permit (access required)

By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: May 16,2013

CHARLOTTE – Mecklenburg County has issued its most valuable building permit of the year – and the largest since January 2012 – worth nearly $52 million, for work on the $85 million South Mint Apartments project. The developer is Childress Klein Properties of Charlotte. Along with the behemoth single permit, which was for the shell [...]


Trinity finalizes sale of former BFGoodrich building

By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: May 14,2013

CHARLOTTE – Trinity Partners, the commercial real estate firm based in the city, has finalized the sale of a 438,650-square-foot industrial building at 11701 Goodrich Drive in southwest Charlotte, according to a Trinity press release. Trinity represented the seller in the transaction, but the company wouldn’t reveal the name of the previous owner, saying only [...]


Circle Alexander Village continues to dominate building permits (access required)

By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: May 14,2013

CHARLOTTE – After a strong showing last week in Mecklenburg County building permits received, Crescent Communities, the developer based in the city, is doing even better this week. The county on Monday issued 40 building permits to Crescent, valued at more than $27 million, for work on its 316-unit Circle Alexander Village apartment project, off [...]


Renovation Report: Camden Sedgebrook (access required)

By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: May 14,2013

With each new apartment project that pops up around Charlotte during this boom, the existing product only becomes more tired. So even though Camden Sedgebrook is only 15-years-old in human years, in apartment years, it’s ancient. Newer apartment communities were making it increasingly difficult for Sedgebrook to compete for tenants.


The Duke Endowment issued a $22M permit for new Dilworth headquarters (access required)

By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: May 13,2013

CHARLOTTE – The Duke Endowment, the Charlotte-based foundation named after James B. Duke, is another step closer to moving to its headquarters to Dilworth, after Mecklenburg County issued a $22 million building permit for work on the three-story office building. Construction on the 46,000-square-foot building, at 800 E. Morehead St., has yet to begin, but [...]


H.C. Barrett adding new ministry center at St. Vincent de Paul (access required)

By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: May 10,2013

CHARLOTTE – Mecklenburg County has issued a building permit, valued at $2.5 million, to the Catholic Parish of St. Vincent de Paul for a 19,693-square-foot ministry center and chapel. Charlie Barrett, principal of Charlotte-based H.C. Barrett, the general contractor on the project, said the two-story building should be finished by the end of the year. [...]


Commercial Confidential: Steel Yard at South End (access required)

By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: May 10,2013

Rhea Greene knows that the Steel Yard at South End isn’t for everyone. Companies looking for cookie-cutter office space in the average high-rise or office park probably won’t quite feel at home at the Steel Yard, with its concrete floors and exposed masonry.


Cato could kick-start commercial development in Fort Mill (access required)

By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: May 10,2013

For every $1 the York County, S.C., town of Fort Mill receives in property taxes on residential properties, it has to spend $1.40 on services such as fire, police and schools. But for every $1 the town gets in taxes from commercial properties, it spends only 31 cents on services.


Crescent Communities receives permits for Circle Alexander Village

By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: May 9,2013

CHARLOTTE – The developer formerly known as Crescent Resources has been issued five permits, valued at $5.8 million, for work on the 320-unit Circle Alexander Village off Senator Royal Place, in University City. Charlotte-based Crescent Communities, which revealed the name change in April, started work on the $33.6 million Alexander Village apartments later in that [...]