Mecklenburg Times: News for Mecklenburg, Union and Iredell counties Real Estate, Development, Construction, and Community News in the Charlotte area and throughout Mecklenburg, Union and Iredell counties

Hickory families will become the City’s newest homeowners thanks to a public-private partnership with the City of Hickory and JRN Development, LLC. The City, JRN Development, and future homebuyers celebrated the completion of the homes at Ridgefield Place in the ...

Tagged with: affordable housing

Rural small businesses face greater challenges to economic recovery and are less optimistic about the future compared to their non-rural counterparts, according to new survey data from SCORE, mentors to America’s small businesses.  SCORE’s Fall 2022 Megaphone of Main Street: The ...

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Ram Realty Advisors closed this week on the acquisition of South End Business Park, a 45-acre infill flex office park comprised of 377,000 SF, located in the Lower South End neighborhood in Charlotte, NC. The sale was brokered by Patrick ...

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Frampton Construction Company, LLC, a full-service construction firm providing planning and design support, preconstruction, and construction services, has been recognized as one of the Best Places to Work by the Charlotte Business Journal. This is the third year in a row ...

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Remote employees have enjoyed better work-life balance, no commute, and the ability to work anywhere, however, a new meQuilibrium survey of 3,900 employees sheds new light on why people are reluctant to return to office — remote and hybrid employees have a ...

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The global labor market remains strong with steady hiring expected for the remainder of 2022, according to the Q4 ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey (NYSE: MAN) of 40,700 employers published today.   Used internationally as a bellwether of economic and labor market ...

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ATTOM has released its third-quarter 2022 report analyzing qualified low-income Opportunity Zones targeted by Congress for economic redevelopment in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (see full methodology below). In this report, ATTOM looked at 4,732 zones around ...

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By the Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM)  It’s hard to ignore the increasing attention autonomous construction equipment is receiving.  Heavy equipment autonomy announcements in just the past year include:  SafeAI and Obayashi Corporation demonstrating a retrofitted autonomous Cat 725 articulated truck.  Shantui ...

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Nearly half (49 percent) of American employees say that they are burned out from their jobs. This level of burnout remains stable from earlier this year, but has dipped since the early months of the pandemic (58 percent in August 2020). ...

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A new survey conducted by CoreNet Global, the premier association for corporate real estate professionals, has found that the high inflationary environment is having an impact on corporate real estate decision making.  According to the survey, 62 percent say that ...

Tagged with: Corporate Real Estate