CHARLOTTE – As industrial development has started to pick up after the recession, some developers are turning their eyes to projects north of the city. And they have 570 reasons to do so. Rather, 85 reasons plus 485 reasons, to ...

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CHARLOTTE – Michelin North America Inc. has leased a 345,545-square-foot distribution facility in Twin Lakes Business Park, a 500-acre, master-planned park in North Charlotte. The 9801 Twin Lakes Parkway building, built on 20 acres off Statesville Road near Interstates 77 ...

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Retail follows rooftops. It’s the old real estate adage explaining how commercial development responds to residential development. So the recent growth in homebuilding and homebuying in the Charlotte market – which is expected to continue into 2014 – will likely be accompanied by increased commercial development over the next two years, even if developers are still cautious about the overall economy.

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Mecklenburg County's Building Development Commission finally is getting a new chairman, although he is not certain what that means.

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In an unexpected move, Jon Morris, who last week handed in his resignation as chairman of the Mecklenburg County Building Development Commission, ended up leading the commission’s meeting Tuesday. Initially, when Morris said he was stepping down, Matt Lucarelli was ...

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At a time when Mecklenburg County’s construction industry is still hurting from the economic downturn, no one wants to hear that the costs to build could be rising. But that’s what might happen to large commercial construction projects if a ...

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In Mecklenburg County, developers and builders feel like a row of dominoes is about to come crashing down on them. They say the cumulative effect of new ordinances is going to put a serious hurting on commercial and residential development ...

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