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Paragon Bank was looking for a higher profile, better accessibility and room to grow. The Raleigh-based bank was rebranding itself from a financial institution that served only commercial clients to an entity that provided service for the larger public. The ...

Tagged with: SouthPark Tyler 2 Construction

James Buchanan Duke – call him Buck – is known as an industrial pioneer. But he didn’t actually pioneer so much as use money to acquire the pioneers and put his name on their work. So we’ll call him instead ...

CHARLOTTE –Derrick Kiker has made a career – actually, three or four careers – of not being pinned down. But Kiker, one of the latest additions to the SouthPark offices of Keller Williams Real Estate, has been pinned a few ...

CHARLOTTE – Ai Design Group, the Charlotte architectural and design firm, just lifted the curtain on its shiny, bright new offices on the top floor of 330 S. Tryon St., in the building that also houses the Charlotte Chamber of ...

CHARLOTTE – Time was, there was Brown & Glenn, Berryhill Realty, Dwelle, a handful of others. But if you wanted to rent an apartment or house from the great-great-granddaddy of Charlotte property management firms, you rented from T.R. Lawing. Today ...

Tagged with: North Carolina Real Estate Commission Tommy Lawing

CHARLOTTE – A wag with an office in the Mecklenburg County Aquatic Center has a “No Swimming” sign in his or her window. Starting June 1, 2015, that sign – or one like it – will be posted on the ...

Tagged with: Mecklenburg County Park and Recreation Department

CHARLOTTE – If the first thing you think of when you think “accountant” is “Louis Tully,” you have not met Rob Phillips, CPA. At 6’5”, this basketball-playing, savvy and slyly funny numbers-cruncher is definitely not the nerdy guy down the ...

CHARLOTTE — Sharp. That’s the word for Ryan Clutter: sharp-looking and sharp-thinking. Yet he’s down-to-earth, as you would expect from his Indiana upbringing, and self-deprecating to boot. Clutter is senior managing director of the startup Charlotte office of the Pittsburgh-based ...

SouthPark Mall is undergoing an overhaul. Owned by Indianapolis-based Simon Property Group, the upscale mall is getting about a dozen new stores and restaurants, and is relocating some existing retailers. With 1.6 million square feet, SouthPark is the largest mall in ...

Tagged with: Renovations Simon Property Group SouthPark mall

CHARLOTTE – Barely a year old, Steele Creek Commerce Park is already gearing up for a second phase, which would more than double its size, up to 105 acres and 1.1 million square feet. And with its location at Steele ...

Tagged with: Commercial Confidential Steele Creek