When New Yorker Greg Rand sold his real estate brokerage firm and started a national web-based real estate business that could be headquartered anywhere, he and his wife decided to “go someplace better.” That someplace turned out to be Charlotte. ...

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Crosland Southeast’s new vice president of acquisitions, Bobby Speir, describes his job as a way to combine two aspects of real estate he loves: finance and development. The company added his position recently to increase its ability to acquire and ...

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Not only does Mike McElroy not back down from a professional challenge. He seeks it out. The new president at Mattamy Homes Charlotte Division went straight to work at Centex Homes, a national homebuilder in Tampa, Florida, after graduating from ...

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Greg Shelton, an attorney with Horack, Talley, Pharr & Lowndes, has litigated a wide array of construction disputes involving high-rise hotels, condominium projects, wastewater treatment facilities, nuclear power plants, highway projects and manufacturing facilities. He is certified by the Florida Bar ...

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Charles Lindsey McAlpine, who goes by Lindsey, knew from a young age that he wanted to be a real estate developer, starting his first brokerage while still a student at UNC Charlotte in the late 1980s. His companies and projects ...

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CHARLOTTE – Some good PR people don’t like marketing themselves; they’re all about their clients. So it took about two months of cajoling, hounding, and email-stalking – everything short of blackmailing – before On the Level landed Julianne McCollum, whose ...

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CHARLOTTE – Mike Wiggins is that rare commercial real estate guy who is not only good at what he does but can explain why, both clearly and – bonus – with a little humor, too. Wiggins, 57, is a partner ...

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Hoss Hinson is a cool name, and the guy who has it has the cool to back it up, too. The wrap-around-sunglasses-sporting, pickup-truck-driving, beard-wearing, hard-hatted and safety-vested vice president of the Monroe-based Godfrey Construction Co. showed up at East Mecklenburg High School taking swigs through a straw in a Big Gulp cup full of Mountain Dew.

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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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Driving through this posh neighborhood – and posh is the only word for it – is like driving through the making of a Lexus commercial. Past the guardhouse, which is as big as 1950s tract house and a lot nicer, the gently curving streets undulate over “speed tables” (not speed bumps) made of pavers (not pavement).

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