By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: May 17,2013
CHARLOTTE – Officials from the Charlotte Area Transit System will have two meetings, open to the public, for information on the 9.3-mile extension of the city’s light rail public transportation system. The meetings are to give updates on the construction activities set to start this summer. The first meeting is at 6 p.m. on Tuesday [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: May 10,2013
CORNELIUS — A conditional-use request made last October to expand an existing Sam’s Mart and turn it into a 7-Eleven store is finally headed toward a decision in this north Mecklenburg town. The town last week scheduled the request, by Dallas-based 7-Eleven Inc., to go before the town Board of Commissioners for an up-or-down decision [...]
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 [...]
By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: May 8,2013
CHARLOTTE – Mecklenburg County has issued five more permits, valued at $958,000, for work on the $20 million Cottages at Euclid townhomes, on Euclid Avenue in the South End neighborhood. Each permit is valued at $191,600 and is for work on a new 5,100-square-foot townhome building, according to county records. Euclid LLC, the developer on [...]
By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: May 7,2013
CHARLOTTE – The area’s housing market continues to show signs of improvement, as April housing numbers were up almost entirely across the board, compared with the same period last year. The Charlotte Regional Realtor Association released a report Tuesday that showed home closings in April were up 34.5 percent from April of 2012. Closings last [...]
By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: May 6,2013
CHARLOTTE – Central Piedmont Community College has filed a rezoning request with the city, asking to change the zoning on 13.57 acres at the intersection of Morris Field and Capitol drives, adjacent to the school’s Harris Campus. The request, filed on April 22, asks to rezone the land from an R-5 residential use to an [...]
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