Industry insiders on watching the rates rise
The average U.S. rate for the benchmark 30-year home mortgage climbed over the 4.5 percent mark this month for the first time in more than two years.
Trend spotting
Apartment development is like most other for-profit industries. When executives see that a new idea is successful, they ride the trend hoping to make money off it. But where do the apartment-industry trends come from?
Amenity rich
Amenities, such as an eighth-floor tenant lounge, aren’t reserved solely for The Vue, the 51-floor condominium-turned-apartment tower at Fifth and Pine streets. In the booming apartment construction in Charlotte, the days of a simple pool and clubhouse are over as developers are focusing on projects heavy on amenities – the more unusual, the better.
On the Level with Todd Williams, shiny-headed senior VP for investments at Grubb Properties
Let’s get this straight: On the Level is not bald. The mugshot might make it look that way. But OtL shaves.
On the Level: Land-use attorney Collin Brown is moving up representing developers in rezoning cases
At 35, Charlotte land-use attorney Collin Brown is moving up, literally and figuratively. As the Charlotte area comes to grips with development and density issues, you can often find Brown advocating for developers at public meetings, which are just as often packed with protesters.
Grubb Properties blames recession, roadwork for slowing Elizabeth project
2014 was supposed to be when Grubb Properties would wrap up its massive redevelopment of Elizabeth Avenue. But Todd Williams, vice president of acquisitions and investments for Grubb, says meeting that deadline hasn’t been easy.
Grubb Properties wins extension for $220M Elizabeth Avenue project
Grubb Properties has been given a six-year extension from Mecklenburg County to complete its roughly $220 million redevelopment of Elizabeth Avenue.
These Wall: Sound and vision
From silent-film house to concert venue and other uses in between, the Visulite Theater keeps being reinvented.
Chiquita finds NASCAR Plaza appealing
Chiquita Brands International ended months of speculation today when it announced that it will relocate its worldwide headquarters to Charlotte from Cincinnati. It’s new home: NASCAR Plaza, built in 1999 […]
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