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	<title>Charlotte Real Estate, Development, and Construction News: Mecklenburg Times &#187; Bissell Cos.</title>
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		<title>MetLife employees arriving in Ballantyne in November&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2013/04/10/metlife-employees-arriving-in-ballantyne-in-november/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Payton Guion, staff writer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Inside Tract]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHARLOTTE – The first of more than 1,300 MetLife employees coming to the Gragg and Woodward buildings in Ballantyne will set up shop in mid-November, according to a MetLife spokeswoman. Meghan Lantier said MetLife employees will start occupying the Gragg Building, at 11225 North Community House Road, in the middle of November, before the company [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MetLife exec predicts heavy local hiring&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2013/03/07/metlife-receives-94-2-million-in-state-grants/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 21:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many and perhaps most of the 2,600 MetLife insurance company jobs headed to North Carolina -- roughly half of them to Charlotte -- will be local hires, a top executive with the insurance giant said late Thursday afternoon.]]></description>
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		<title>Childress Klein wins rezoning for Marvin Road apartments&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2012/12/19/childress-klein-wins-rezoning-for-marvin-road-apartments/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:12:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Brown, Staff Writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ballantyne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beth Pickering]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[time warner entertainment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHARLOTTE &#8212; After protest petitions were rescinded, the Charlotte City Council on Monday night voted 9-1 to approve a rezoning request for a proposed large apartment complex at Marvin and Johnston roads, allowing the project to move forward. The vote comes after Charlotte-based developer Childress Klein Properties revised its plans four times for the 281-unit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bissell aiming for tenants by January in Gragg and Woodward&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2012/11/21/bissell-aiming-for-tenants-by-january-in-gragg-and-woodard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 22:23:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Baughman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commercial Real Estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Jenkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bissell Cos.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gragg and Woodward]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kimberly Kendall]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Charlotte real estate giant The Bissell Cos. doesn't have a tenant yet for either of its latest marquee properties at Ballantyne Corporate Park – but the company plans to have at least one tenant by January.]]></description>
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		<title>High expectations&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2012/09/06/high-expectations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2012 20:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Baughman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ballantyne Corporate Park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the two towers reaching toward the sky in Ballantyne Corporate Park are the latest jewels in the crown of the Bissell Cos., observers say the huge increase in office space poses a risk for the developer.]]></description>
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		<title>Perking down: Where commercial property incentives are becoming harder to find&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2012/04/27/perking-down-where-commercial-property-incentives-are-becoming-harder-to-find/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:09:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Baughman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cassidy Turley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[incentives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karnes Research]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Charlotte’s commercial real estate market still stuck in tenants’ favor, landlords continue to bite the bullet and offer free rent. And some don’t expect free rent and other tenant incentives to disappear in the near future. But in some sections, the incentives appear to have begun drying up.]]></description>
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		<title>Bissell development wins rezoning  recommendation&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/09/13/bissell-development-wins-rezoning-%e2%80%a8recommendation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:56:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Bissell Cos. is one step closer to getting the rezoning it needs for a project at Ballantyne Corporate Park. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission’s zoning committee last week recommended approval of the rezoning request. If OK’d later this month by the Charlotte City Council, it would allow for the development of 1.06 million square feet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bissell rezoning  request up for vote&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/09/02/bissell-rezoning-%e2%80%a8request-up-for-vote/</link>
		<comments>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/09/02/bissell-rezoning-%e2%80%a8request-up-for-vote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 20:24:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mecklenburg Times staff reports</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A rezoning request from The Bissell Cos. will be considered at a meeting of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission 5 p.m. Tuesday. Bissell hopes to rezone 520 acres for the development of 1.06 million square feet of office space, 100 hotel rooms and 600 residential units in Ballantyne Corporate Park. The property is zoned business park [...]]]></description>
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		<title>He&#8217;s known as the go-to lawyer for major real estate deals&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/07/08/hes-known-as-the-go-to-lawyer-for-major-real-estate-deals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2011 12:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sam Boykin, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bailey Patrick]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Nicholls]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Already skeptical of SouthPark Mall, a big, new complex built in the middle of pastureland, residents weren’t happy when they learned that Charlotte developer Johnny Harris planned to build offices and retail shops around it. It was the early 1970s, and Harris, then a partner at The Bissell Cos., said his family had sold the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vacancies build barriers to construction loans&#160;</title>
		<link>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/06/21/vacancy-glut-builds-barriers-to-construction-loans/</link>
		<comments>http://mecktimes.com/news/2011/06/21/vacancy-glut-builds-barriers-to-construction-loans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tara Ramsey, staff writer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andrew Jenkins]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anne Johnson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beacon Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte Center City Partners]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karnes Research Co.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Michael Ortlip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ned Curran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pete Lash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tracy Dodson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On June 9, Charlotte-based Bissell Cos. started construction on two office buildings in Ballantyne Corporate Park. The company calls it the largest speculative office project in the U.S. The $100 million project will add another 550,000 square feet to the corporate park. But the project is significant for more than its size. In today&#8217;s construction [...]]]></description>
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