Developers filling in Charlotte sites with high-end homes, apartments
More infill developments and apartment projects are popping up across Charlotte.
A pocket community of 15 homes, some of which near $1 million in sale price, is nearing completion in Enderly Park — likely setting a bar for that west Charlotte neighborhood. Across town, in NoDa, a small development with nine luxury homes is also taking shape.
READ: CMPD evacuates Lovin' Life Music Fest due to severe weather
And Charlotte developer Hopper Communities continues to build out its pipeline of infill townhome projects. It's under construction on 52 townhomes in south Charlotte as well as 41 units in the lower South End area.
As for apartments, a New York developer has zeroed in on lower South End for its next apartment project here, recently filing permits for 263 units on South Tryon Street.
Read more here.
WATCH: CMPD evacuates Lovin' Life Music Fest due to severe weather
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
04-05-2025
- Yahoo
Developers filling in Charlotte sites with high-end homes, apartments
More infill developments and apartment projects are popping up across Charlotte. A pocket community of 15 homes, some of which near $1 million in sale price, is nearing completion in Enderly Park — likely setting a bar for that west Charlotte neighborhood. Across town, in NoDa, a small development with nine luxury homes is also taking shape. READ: CMPD evacuates Lovin' Life Music Fest due to severe weather And Charlotte developer Hopper Communities continues to build out its pipeline of infill townhome projects. It's under construction on 52 townhomes in south Charlotte as well as 41 units in the lower South End area. As for apartments, a New York developer has zeroed in on lower South End for its next apartment project here, recently filing permits for 263 units on South Tryon Street. Read more here. WATCH: CMPD evacuates Lovin' Life Music Fest due to severe weather
Yahoo
03-05-2025
- Yahoo
Former Hornets executive joins lobbying firm with Trump ties
Former Charlotte Hornets President Fred Whitfield is going back to work. Not in pro sports, though. Instead, he's joined forces with a man described this week by the Wall Street Journal as the ringleader of the 'MAGA lobbyists upending Washington.' Whitfield has joined Winston-Salem-based Checkmate Government Relations, a lobbying firm founded in December 2023 by Ches McDowell, the firm's 35-year-old managing partner. Whitfield's title is senior strategic advisor. READ: 9 Investigates: Charlotte City Council votes to not settle potential lawsuit from CMPD chief McDowell and Whitfield, in a joint interview with CBJ on May 1, said Whitfield will continue to live in Charlotte and consult with clients here while also leading business development, primarily for the firm's first office in Washington, D.C., newly opened on Pennsylvania Avenue, not far from the White House. The Wall Street Journal attributed McDowell's rise to lobbying prominence in Washington to an unorthodox approach that included a falconry outing with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last fall — months before Kennedy became a Cabinet member in the second Trump administration. The main photo accompanying the story shows McDowell in khakis and a blazer standing next to a taxidermied bear. Read more here. WATCH: 9 Investigates: Charlotte City Council votes to not settle potential lawsuit from CMPD chief
Axios
14-04-2025
- Axios
Uptown's center of gravity has shifted south
The corridor along South Tryon, South College Streets and what's now known as Brooklyn Village Avenue has seen a substantial amount of new development and new businesses. Why it matters: The city's urban core has shifted south, almost blurring the lines between Uptown and South End. Context: The Duke Energy Plaza, Ally Charlotte Center, and Legacy Union all opened within the last decade, creating more jobs in Uptown and adding new restaurants and things to do, like the Museum of Illusions. Plus, the Convention Center, which is also in this corridor near I-277, underwent substantial renovations. What they're saying: "Urban cores are like living organisms," Charlotte Center City Partners president and CEO Michael Smith tells Axios. "Its center of development and center of life changes based on many forces, including development patterns and availability of lands and investments in transportation systems and then complementary uses." Between the lines: Uptown's heartbeat once was the EpiCentre (now Queen City Quarter), where you could eat, drink, and play. But the EpiCentre couldn't recover from financial woes that were exacerbated by the pandemic. Even with a new name, fresh paint and new tenants, it's far from the destination it once was. Flashback: Uptown's southern edge was once mostly occupied by parking lots and a few prominent buildings like those of the Charlotte Observer, Actor's Theatre of Charlotte, and a Goodyear tire shop-turned- temporary home for artists. Today, those buildings have been razed and replaced with towers that reach for the sky. Some are apartments, hotels and offices. While others house headquarters for organizations, including Honeywell and the ACC. "This was one of the really big wins in the economic development narrative the last couple years when the ACC decided to stay in North Carolina and chose Charlotte," Center City Partners' economic development SVP James LaBar tells Axios. The area is also drawing restaurants from some of Charlotte's most established names, like Dogwood by Rare Roots Hospitality Group and Milkbread and Albertine by Joe and Katy Kindred. The intrigue: The opposite side of Uptown is in the midst of its own transformation. Spectrum Center is going through renovations and the Charlotte Hornets have begun construction on a new standalone practice facility, which team and city leaders hope will spark a district similar to Milwaukee's Deer District. Charlotte Mecklenburg's new $137.3 million main library is expected to open in spring 2026 off North Tryon Street, and the nearby Carolina Theatre recently reopened after a $90 million restoration. Beyond development, thousands of people will gather in First Ward Park in May for Lovin' Life Music Fest. That same weekend, people will also gather at Bank of America Stadium for Kendrick Lamar's concert. What we're watching: Development is slated for either side of I-277, with a 42-story apartment tower, Queensbridge Collective, and a restaurant overlooking the Rail Trail Market on Morehead on the South End side. As for Uptown, Bank of America Stadium is slated to undergo major renovations in the coming years. The bottom line: "There can be great activity in many places, but centers of activities move," Smith says.
