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CHARLOTTE -The Belk Gym at the University of North Carolina Charlotte is undergoing a much needed metamorphosis. “It was well beyond time for it to be upfitted, plus code has changed,” explained John Fessler, director of capital projects at the ...

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CHARLOTTE – The Salvation Army’s Center of Hope shelter is looking to renovate its third-floor storage area into an additional 64 beds for the city’s homeless. The charitable organization is in the process of raising funds to transform the attic ...

CHARLOTTE – They stand as bright beacons on the corner of Sweetbriar Street and The Plaza. Three pristine Craftsman-style homes painted in vibrant red and blue, conspicuous amid some shabby neighbors on the fringes of NoDa. Builder Brian Alenky, president ...

CHARLOTTE – When Doug Shipley first looked out over what would become the playing fields at the soon-to-open Rugby Athletic Center, this is what he saw. “It was a jungle,” said Shipley, director of development and operations at the RAC. ...

GREENVILLE, N.C. – Charlotte-based Synco Properties revealed earlier this month that it, along with Stonecutter Capital Management and its affiliates, has bought a three-property multifamily portfolio in this eastern North Carolina city. Synco bought the portfolio, consisting of Hyde Park, ...

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CHARLOTTE – The school on Hawthorne Lane, north of Central Avenue, has been repurposed several times over the years. It’s been a junior high school and a traditional high school. It was closed for a short period of time and ...

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MATTHEWS – Publix, like many companies, prides itself on offering consistency to customers across hundreds of stores in multiple states. That’s easy to do when Publix is building stores from the ground up, based on store prototypes. The company then ...

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It’s been almost a decade and a half since state agencies and community colleges got any bond money from the state to fund repairs and renovations to existing buildings. In that time, those buildings have accumulated a multi-billion-dollar backlog in ...

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CHARLOTTE – Poor, poor Stratford; everyone wants to knock her down. The apartment complex, like much of the development along Park Road near Woodlawn Road, is aged and happens to be on a site primed for redevelopment. The Park and ...

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CHARLOTTE – Not too many years ago, when I was a nothing more than a snot-nosed freshman at UNCC, I visited friends at Holshouser Hall, one of the old, high-rise dormitories that stood at the front of campus as a ...

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