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M/I Homes plans Tega Cay-area subdivision (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: February 5,2013

The Charlotte division of the Columbus, Ohio-based production builder said the new subdivision will be named Hawk’s Creek.


So far, D.R. Horton is Meck County’s busiest homebuilder in 2013 (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: January 18,2013

CHARLOTTE — D.R. Horton is the busiest homebuilder in Mecklenburg County so far this year, with 22 building permits worth nearly $2.9 million awarded by the county for detached, single-family homes. Fourteen of those permits, or nearly two-thirds, are for homes in the new, mixed-use Vineyards on Lake Wylie subdivision off Old Dowd Road just [...]


M/I Homes: Meck County’s busiest homebuilder in 2012 (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: January 17,2013

For many, 13 is a dreaded number, a cursed pair of digits to be avoided at all costs. But ’13 might be a year of luck and plenty for some Charlotte-area developers and real estate and construction companies. Our 13-part series will take a look at companies and people expected to be among the busiest and biggest newsmakers this year.


Meck building permits suggest 2012 is year of homebuilding comeback (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: January 8,2013

The county’s homebuilders in November continued their 2012 surge past the previous year’s building permit figures, according to just-released monthly and year-to-date statistics compiled by the Home Builders Association of Charlotte.


On the Level: Land-use attorney Collin Brown is moving up representing developers in rezoning cases (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: December 28,2012

At 35, Charlotte land-use attorney Collin Brown is moving up, literally and figuratively. As the Charlotte area comes to grips with development and density issues, you can often find Brown advocating for developers at public meetings, which are just as often packed with protesters.


M/I Homes issued nearly $2.5M in Meck building permits in November (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: December 3,2012

CHARLOTTE — M/I Homes’ Charlotte operation must not have received the memo: It’s the holiday season, when homebuilding — and home-selling — traditionally go bye-bye. In November, Mecklenburg County issued 17 building permits worth nearly $2.5 million to Columbus, Ohio-based M/I. The majority — 10 — of those were awarded after Thanksgiving, when the Christmas [...]


M/I Homes to wait until January for Avery Park vote (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: November 19,2012

Tamara Lynch, M/I vice president for sales and marketing, who declining to comment on the reasons for the delay, said Monday that her company has decided to take the proposal to commissioners in mid-January.


M/I wins planning board OK for new Avery Park plan (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: October 24,2012

M/I Homes on Tuesday night presented a radically altered site plan for its controversial Avery Park subdivision, making changes to address the concerns of neighbors protesting the proposed project.


Huntersville’s Avery Park to move ahead despite protests (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: October 2,2012

Despite a town Board of Commissioners meeting Monday night packed with protesters, the first new development in recent memory in Huntersville appears ready to get the go-ahead.


Stats for starts: Tamara Lynch helps M/I Homes determine where to build (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: September 24,2012

Lynch, a Michigan native, is vice president for sales and marketing for M/I Homes Charlotte, which consistently ranks at or near the top of annual lists of homes built and sold in the Charlotte market.