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

On Oct. 8, Todd Noell gave the Charlotte City Council some grim news. Noell, a consultant with Atlanta-based Noell Consulting, who was at the council meeting to present his company’s findings on the availability of affordable housing in the city, said Charlotte is woefully short on such housing.

Tagged with: affordable housing

Don’t go out to Coliseum Centre office park expecting to find a coliseum nearby. Or a gladiator. Or even a leather sandal.

Tagged with: Commercial Confidential

Last week, Davidson College announced that the Duke Endowment is giving it $45 million, money the liberal arts school will use for construction projects.

Tagged with: construction Davidson College Stimulus

Quick: On a scale of 1 to 100, what’s your “sentiment index”? That’s apparently the question the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo people ask homebuilders every month.

Tagged with: homebuilders National Association of Home Builders Wells Fargo

DAVIDSON – A $45 million stimulus package just landed at the feet of developers and builders willing to work in north Mecklenburg County.

Tagged with: Davidson College

Over 14 years, Cabarrus County charged builders and developers $8.45 million in special fees. But two months ago, the North Carolina Supreme Court declared the fees illegal. And that’s where it starts to get complicated, and where a whole other set of court cases will ensue.

Tagged with: Cabarrus County

Park Road Shopping Center opened in 1956 as the first open-air shopping center in the city and the biggest center between Atlanta and Washington D.C. The center has been almost 100 percent occupied for its entire history, according to a website operated by Edens.

Tagged with: Commercial Confidential

Bob Nixon owns less than an acre of land at Anderson and North Davidson streets in the NoDa neighborhood. He’d like to redevelop it — into what he doesn’t know yet — but he said the blighted masses that are the Johnston and Mecklenburg mills, roughly three blocks from his land, have made him reluctant to do anything with his property.

Tagged with: Jim Merrifield Rob Fossi The Community Builders

Along the Catawba River, Riverwalk -- a $600 million “lifestyle” development, which could take up to 15 years to finish -- is centered on outdoor and indoor activities, such as bicycling, kayaking and trail-hiking. Home sales are off and running.

Tagged with: mixed-use development Riverwalk

Last month, construction started in uptown Charlotte on a ballpark for the Charlotte Knights, which is leaving this town — and Knights Stadium — behind. The question becomes: What to do with the land?

Tagged with: Charlotte Knights Uptown