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Two Charlotte shopping centers centers, Cotswold Village and The Terraces at SouthPark, have been sold for $85 million. Greensboro-based Bell Partners said this week that it has sold the properties to DDR, a Beachwood, Ohio–based owner and manager of shopping ...

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Heritage Commons Business Park on Highway 49 in the Cabarrus County town of Harrisburg is scheduled to open Oct. 15. Concord-based Windsor Construction is the builder on the project. According to Windsor’s website, Timothy Arey founded the general contracting firm ...

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Snyder’s-Lance plans to lease about 27,060 square feet of a building at 121-B Fairgrove Church Road in Conover for a new distribution center. The space is geared toward multitenant commercial/industrial uses. Donald Duncan, town manager, said the company needed a ...

In more grim news for Charlotte’s construction industry, construction, mining and logging employment fell 4 percent in August from the same month a year ago, according to a report this week from the Associated General Contractors of America. That meant ...

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North and South Carolina have long been rivals. Sports teams. Job markets. Tourism. All have been battlefields for the two states. In the real estate industry, there’s yet another way the two states are compared: property tax rates. For the ...

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News stories, pundits and blog entries across the U.S. have recently trumpeted the return of the smaller home as consumers look for ways to cut expenses as the economy limps along. But the trend has skipped over the Charlotte area, ...

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They’re victims of the recession: unfinished communities scattered across the Charlotte area. But for homebuilders like Lennar Corp., they’re an opportunity. Just ask Jon Hardy. Hardy, president of the Miami-based company’s Charlotte division, said that this year Lennar has built ...

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Contractors found the prices of key construction materials cheaper in August, but annual materials cost increases still are outstripping building prices over the past year, the Associated General Contractors of America said Wednesday. Diesel fuel costs were down 6.2 percent ...

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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 ...

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Apartments.com and careerrookie.com have revealed their fourth annual Top 10 Best Cities for Recent College Graduates list. And Charlotte isn’t on it. To make matters worse, perennial Charlotte rival Atlanta was No. 9 on the list, with an average monthly ...