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For Charlotte builders, bigger isn’t always better (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: March 29,2011

Lat Purser has been looking for new development projects that he can afford to lose. Earlier this month, his company, Charlotte-based Lat Purser and Associates, finished work on The Arden, a new, 16-unit apartment complex in the NoDa neighborhood north of uptown. Units in the development range from 400-square-foot studios to 900-square-foot one-bedroom apartments. Charlotte-based [...]


Deadline looms for challengers to upset NoDa mills low bidder

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: February 18,2011

A trio of local companies has until Monday to submit upset bids for two historic Charlotte mills the city put up for sale last month. Earlier this week The Community Builders Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based affordable-housing developer, put in a winning bid of $610,000 for Johnston and Mecklenburg Mills, just north of uptown in the [...]