Air rights are not an exotic concept limited to mega cities like New York or Boston. They’re an important part of the real estate and construction game happening all around –– or at least above –– the Queen City. That ...

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CHARLOTTE — Lowe Enterprises Investors (LEI) has acquired the Aloft Charlotte Uptown at the EpiCentre on behalf of an investment client. The 175-room hotel  at 210 E. Trade St. in the uptown. An LEI affiliate, Destination Management, has assumed management ...

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CHARLOTTE — A new 20-story hotel tower with 302 rooms is coming to Uptown’s EpiCentre. McKibbon Hotel Management, based in Tampa, Fla., is partnering with Vision Ventures and Mount Vernon Asset Management to build the project, which is slated to ...

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CHARLOTTE – The EpiCentre, Uptown’s hub for nightlife and activity, has a new owner after spending months on the market. CIM Group, a real estate investment firm out of Los Angeles, closed this week on the more than 300,000-square-foot mixed-use ...

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CHARLOTTE – The EpiCentre, Uptown’s 305,147-square-foot nightlife hub, is listed for sale by the Dallas office of HFF Inc., a national commercial real estate firm. The EpiCentre sits on the 3.17-acre city block bound by College, Fourth and Trade streets ...

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Parkway Construction & Associates, of Lewisville, Texas, is the contractor on the 5,600-square-foot champagne lounge and tapas bar.

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Late last month, the Charlotte office of Dallas-based Balfour Beatty started roughly $1 million in cosmetic and repair work at the Uptown entertainment complex that was mired in bankruptcy proceedings until a judge in March OK’d a liquidation plan that transferred EpiCentre ownership to Blue Air 2010.

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When developer Afshin Ghazi was ordered to pay $1.5 million in a bankruptcy settlement last month, it marked the end of struggle to turn around the EpiCentre. Some say Ghazi will bounce back; others say his chances of getting financing are slim.

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Elaine Rudisill is OK with not being popular. And as court-appointed trustee for the EpiCentre – and one of the most powerful figures in the ongoing legal battle involving the shopping and entertainment complex – there are lots of reasons ...

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Darrell Boyette’s cigar shop, Tinderbox, is in Overstreet Mall, a collection of stores inside some of uptown’s high-rise buildings. It’s Tinderbox’s smallest location, and Boyette, the general manager, sees 80 to 100 customers every day at the store, which he ...

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