CHARLOTTE – Ron Harmon was looking for something special in his next home, the ability to accommodate his elderly mother-in-law and his autistic daughter independently yet safely under one roof. The 64-year-old director of purchasing for the city of Bradenton, ...

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Rooftops+Recovery+Recent Hospital Expansion=Commercial Real Estate Revival. That appears to be formula at work in The Park-Huntersville – and its joined-at-the hip spin-off, the Gilead Center – where seven new construction projects are underway or in the pipeline.

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M/I Homes Charlotte is on a self-developing rampage. The local division of the Columbus, Ohio-based homebuilding giant just closed on a deal to purchase 225 acres of raw land in Harrisburg to develop and build a 297-home subdivision named Blume, according to Tamara Lynch, M/I Charlotte vice president for sales and marketing.

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The latest in residential landscaping is: Please don’t call it residential landscaping. It’s now “the outdoor living experience,” as Shawn Kelly, lead landscape designer for Charlotte-based Metro GreenScape, put it.

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The plan goes like this: Let another homebuilding/development company do the local-government legwork, buy the property pre-entitled. Then, as another homebuilder/developer, put in the infrastructure, develop the lots and build the houses yourself.

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The Charlotte division of the Columbus, Ohio-based production builder said the new subdivision will be named Hawk’s Creek.

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CHARLOTTE — D.R. Horton is the busiest homebuilder in Mecklenburg County so far this year, with 22 building permits worth nearly $2.9 million awarded by the county for detached, single-family homes. Fourteen of those permits, or nearly two-thirds, are for ...

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For many, 13 is a dreaded number, a cursed pair of digits to be avoided at all costs. But ’13 might be a year of luck and plenty for some Charlotte-area developers and real estate and construction companies. Our 13-part series will take a look at companies and people expected to be among the busiest and biggest newsmakers this year.

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The county’s homebuilders in November continued their 2012 surge past the previous year’s building permit figures, according to just-released monthly and year-to-date statistics compiled by the Home Builders Association of Charlotte.

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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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