1200 South Boulevard, a 331-unit project at Carson and South boulevards, has been off the drawing board for more than a year, waiting to join the list of apartment projects coming to South End. The site is soon to change, with apartment construction set to begin within the next month, according to Capstone Building Corp., the Birmingham, Ala.-based general contractor that’s working on the project.

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With all the multifamily focus these days on amenities, when all other factors are equal, landscaping can make all the difference.

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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.

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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?

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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.

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Let’s get this straight: On the Level is not bald. The mugshot might make it look that way. But OtL shaves.

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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.

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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.

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Grubb Properties has been given a six-year extension from Mecklenburg County to complete its roughly $220 million redevelopment of Elizabeth Avenue.

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From silent-film house to concert venue and other uses in between, the Visulite Theater keeps being reinvented.

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