By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: December 28,2012
Parkway Construction & Associates, of Lewisville, Texas, is the contractor on the 5,600-square-foot champagne lounge and tapas bar.
By Scott Baughman
Published: April 9,2012
Late last month, the Charlotte office of Dallas-based Balfour Beatty started roughly $1 million in cosmetic and repair work at the Uptown entertainment complex that was mired in bankruptcy proceedings until a judge in March OK’d a liquidation plan that transferred EpiCentre ownership to Blue Air 2010.
By Scott Baughman
Published: March 12,2012
When developer Afshin Ghazi was ordered to pay $1.5 million in a bankruptcy settlement last month, it marked the end of struggle to turn around the EpiCentre. Some say Ghazi will bounce back; others say his chances of getting financing are slim.
By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: December 23,2011
Elaine Rudisill is OK with not being popular. And as court-appointed trustee for the EpiCentre – and one of the most powerful figures in the ongoing legal battle involving the shopping and entertainment complex – there are lots of reasons people might not like her. For one, Rudisill has full control over the EpiCentre, and [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: June 21,2011
Darrell Boyette’s cigar shop, Tinderbox, is in Overstreet Mall, a collection of stores inside some of uptown’s high-rise buildings. It’s Tinderbox’s smallest location, and Boyette, the general manager, sees 80 to 100 customers every day at the store, which he says operates during “bankers’ hours” — 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays. “We chose this [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: November 29,2010
More than 300 investors purchased condominiums at Charlotte’s EpiCentre in hopes of enjoying a Center City lifestyle. But after five years of waiting, some investors, such as 36-year-old Andre Williams of Charlotte, are just hoping not to lose their money. “I have all the hope in the world,” Williams said Monday. “Right now, I’ll still [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: November 23,2010
A bankruptcy judge Monday approved the sale of $93.9 million in EpiCentre-related debt from Birmingham, Ala.-based Regions Bank to Blue Air 2010 LLC. The sale of the loan to the Delaware-based company will allow for a reorganization of the debt that could return the EpiCentre to a viable project, attorney Dennis O’Dea, who was appointed [...]
By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: November 16,2010
With an announcement that an unnamed investor may purchase a $93.9 million loan on the EpiCentre, a group of about 40 contractors and others who say they are owed more nearly $10 million is wondering what the news means for them. EpiCentre says it owes the group, including contractors who built the complex and storeowners [...]
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