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Merrifield Patrick Vermillion sets sights on South End (access required)

By Payton Guion, staff writer
Published: October 23,2012

Although the project was announced in March, construction began this month on Park and Kingston Apartments, an $18 million, 153-unit complex being built in South End.


CRCBR announces office building sales

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: July 23,2012

Merrifield Patrick Vermillion and Percival McGuire Commercial Real Estate have been involved in recent sales of Charlotte-area office buildings, according to the Charlotte Region Commercial Board of Realtors.


Un-sprawling Charlotte (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: July 15,2011

When David Walters looks at Charlotte’s growth, he sees haphazardness everywhere. A resident of Charlotte since 1990, the professor of architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte said he has watched the city take shape with little rhyme or reason, veering off in multiple directions with no clear guiding principles. As a result, [...]


Developers take pass on upsetting $1.2M bid for mills

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: April 4,2011

With no one challenging The Community Builders’ upset bid of $1.24 million, the Washington, D.C.-based affordable-housing developer is now poised to take ownership of two historic NoDa mills that are to be developed into a residential project. Charlotte’s Neighborhood and Business Services staff will bring TCB’s high bid offer to the City Council for approval [...]


Five years from home (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: April 1,2011

Carletta Jackson wants to move back to the home that she was kicked out of. It happened in 2006, on Mother’s Day weekend. Jackson had just come home from work and was in the kitchen making food and cocktails for a neighborhood cookout when there was a knock on her door. It was a Charlotte [...]


NoDa mills bidding war goes into round 6

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: March 25,2011

The Community Builders Inc. submitted another upset bid Thursday for two historic NoDa mills that are to be developed into a residential project, part of which will include affordable housing. The upset bid of $1.24 million is more than double what Community Builders, a Washington, D.C.-based affordable-housing developer, originally bid for the mills in February, which kicked [...]


Bidding war for NoDa mills rages on

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: March 14,2011

Eligible bidders for two historic NoDa Mills have until March 24 to come up with at least $1.24 million to stay in the running. The bidding war is now in round four since Merrifield Patrick Vermillion submitted an upset bid of $1.12 million today, beating out the previous upset bid by The Community Builders Inc. of $1.02 [...]


Round 3 in NoDa mills bidding war could become round 4 come Monday

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: March 9,2011

Now in round three, the bidding war for two historic NoDa mills will go into round four if companies file upset bids Monday to redevelop the properties. The Community Builders Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based affordable-housing developer, put in a $1.02 million winning upset bid before the previous March 3 deadline, beating out Merrifield Patrick Vermillion, [...]


Battle of the buildings (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: March 4,2011

They’re two of the biggest buildings — and competitors — in Charlotte. NASCAR Plaza and Ally Center were built in the same year, 2009, and the two uptown properties contain a total of 755,000 square feet of office and retail space. And while the same company owns them, the buildings battle each other for tenants, [...]


Kelly Pipe Co. inks lease in Charlotte, adds jobs

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: March 4,2011

Santa Fe Springs, Calif.-based Kelly Pipe Co. has leased roughly 108,000 square feet of warehouse and office space in Charlotte and created five jobs, the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce said today. The facility is at 9925 Brookford St. The new location enhances Kelly’s goal to distribute carbon steel pipe as a master distributor to its wholesale customers [...]