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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.


Ryan Homes to build 4 town houses in the McCarley subdivision (access required)

By Tony Brown, Staff Writer
Published: December 18,2012

CHARLOTTE — Ryan Homes plans to build four town houses in the McCarley subdivision off Lancaster Highway, half a mile south of Ballantyne and near the border with unincorporated South Carolina, according to building permits. On Friday, Mecklenburg County issued four permits worth a total of $701,666 to NVR, Ryan’s parent company, for four two-story [...]


On the Level: Michael McMillan, co-owner of McMillan Construction Management (access required)

By Tara Ramsey, staff writer
Published: November 22,2011

Michael McMillan said he’s just completed what will likely be the most important project of his career. Lives in: Mountain Island Lake Age: 36 Family: wife, Kathleen, 42; children, Amelia, 8, Jack, 7, Mary Frances, 5 Education: bachelor’s degree in business management and marketing from University of Dayton, Ohio After college, Michael McMillan came to Charlotte [...]


Ryan Homes to build in Summers Walk (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: November 22,2011

The Summers Walk residential development in Davidson is about to get a new builder. Ryan Homes said it plans to build single-family homes, priced from the low $220,000s and with up to six bedrooms and five baths, two-car garages and as much as 4,000 square feet of interior space. Units will range from one to [...]


Ryan Homes to build in Gastonia (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: November 18,2011

The Ryan Homes division of NVR has plans for new single-family homes to be built in Gastonia at its Rosegate project. The Gastonia-based homebuilder said it chose the Rosegate location because of its proximity to the YMCA and other amenities in Gastonia. The homes will range from 2,072 to 3,345 square feet and are set [...]


Mooresville Town Board says ‘no’ to developer transferring credits (access required)

By Mecklenburg Times staff reports
Published: October 21,2011

The Mooresville Town Board on Monday denied a request from MAG Land Development to transfer $514,280 in availability and system development fee credits to GK Curtis Pond. Maia Setzer, Mooresville’s executive director of administration, said the credits were part of a service agreement between Mooresville and MAG after the development company ran water and sewage [...]


Green Gamble: Bill Thomas’ ‘Agriburbia’ project hasn’t taken root (access required)

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

As it sits there now, The Farmstead in Rowan County is just another failed and abandoned subdivision. Developers Bill Thomas and John Fletcher had high hopes in 2007, when they paid about $2.5 million for the 120 acres in Granite Quarry, about 40 miles north of Charlotte. But then the economy soured, they lost their [...]


Missed Manors: A high-end home is hard 
to find, Charlotte builders 
say as they try to replenish depleted inventory (access required)

By Scott Baughman
Published: September 13,2011

Rumors are swirling that the luxury home market in Charlotte is nearing extinction, that it’s barely a whisper of what it once was. But Charlotte homebuilder Alan Simonini says all the talk about the demise of Charlotte’ luxury home market is just exaggeration. “We’re building like six houses right now,” Simonini said. When the Great [...]


Owners of large homes hit the ceiling over builders going smaller (access required)

By Sam Boykin, staff writer
Published: May 10,2011

Jim Houston said he got a great deal when he bought a 3,600-square-foot house in March 2008 for $260,000. The house is in Fieldstone Farm, a subdivision in fast-growing Indian Trail, southeast of Charlotte in Union County. Houston and his family love the close-knit community, which has plenty of open green space and a clubhouse [...]