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CHARLOTTE – Since a development group announced in January 2013 plans to build the tallest residential building in Uptown since the 50-story The Vue, a lot has happened in the neighborhood’s multifamily market. Childress Klein Properties, a local development company, ...

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CHARLOTTE – Kent Walker is sitting on 13.594 acres of prime Uptown real estate, spread across four parcels, that he can’t get off his hands quickly enough. Yet developers aren’t biting. Walker, who doesn’t own the land but instead is ...

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CHARLOTTE – The last time we spoke, Birju Patel told me he was hoping for a January start for construction on his Embassy Suites hotel project at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Caldwell Street, across from ...

CHARLOTTE – Up until a few months ago, one of the more recognizable intersections in the esteemed Dilworth neighborhood – Morehead Street and Kenilworth Avenue – was notable mainly for its row of abandoned office buildings, the most obvious being ...

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CHARLOTTE – Somewhat lost in the apartment boom in South End, where developers are putting up thousands of units across the neighborhood, has been talk about the commercial development that will surely accompany all those multifamily units. The South End ...

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CHARLOTTE – City officials likely knew Bert Hesse was going to ask for some city money in his ambitious plan to bring a film studio to Eastland Mall. Hesse, the CEO of Studio Charlotte Development, hasn’t been shy in saying ...

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UNIVERSITY CITY – The University of North Carolina at Charlotte is clearly growing. Massive construction projects are underway and the school this year started playing NCAA Division I football. A common theme woven throughout the campus construction and football Saturdays ...

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KANNAPOLIS – Building a city hall has been labeled a priority by the government of this Cabarrus County city since 1990. Mike Legg, the city’s manager, gave a laundry list of reasons it has taken more than 20 years to ...

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While the apartment construction boom has permeated nearly all areas of Mecklenburg County – some areas more so than others – one area that has felt little of that effect is this northern Mecklenburg town near Lake Norman.But GCI Residential, an entity of suburban-Cleveland-based Goldberg Companies, has been permitted by Mecklenburg County to start on the second phase of its Legacy Cornelius apartment project, at Lake Pines Drive off Westmoreland Road.

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Starting this week, students at Queens University of Charlotte have access to the brand new Levine Center for Wellness and Recreation, a $28 million, 145,000-square-foot student activities center. The facility opened Monday, after more than a year and a half of work.

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