This week Charlotte Center City Partners honored developer and architect David Furman with a 2015 Vision Award for his contributions in making uptown Charlotte a more vibrant place to live.
Furman, a Charlotte native, moved back home after graduating from N.C. State and began working for architect Reg Narmour. Furman started his own firm, David Furman Architecture, in 1980 and later co-founded residential firm The Boulevard Co. with Chris Branch. In 1999, Furman started his own development firm,…David Furman on why developers have all the fun: ‘They’re the ones that control everything’
This week Charlotte Center City Partners honored developer and architect David Furman with a 2015 Vision Award for his contributions in making uptown Charlotte a more vibrant place to live.
Furman, a Charlotte native, moved back home after graduating from N.C. State and began working for architect Reg Narmour. Furman started his own firm, David Furman Architecture, in 1980 and later co-founded residential firm The Boulevard Co. with Chris Branch. In 1999, Furman started his own development firm,…
Big news in Charlotte’s brokerage community: Barry Fabyan, head of office leasing at The Bissell Cos., is leaving the company after 18 years to join JLL, where he will lead that firm’s office leasing team with Charley Leavitt.
Fabyan joined Bissell in 1997 after playing golf professionally and oversaw leasing at Ballantyne Corporate Park, the company's 4.3 million-square-foot south Charlotte office park, and Bissell’s SouthPark office properties.
Fabyan has negotiated a host of major corporate…
Tight inventory of homes for sale in the Charlotte market has been noted month after month in reports on local sale activity and housing prices. But a report posted Thursday by online real estate brokerage Redfin contends that shortage is even worse than it looks.
After examining 50 markets nationwide to see if fresh housing inventory is growing, Redfin reached the conclusion that buyers in many cities face a bleak picture — and perhaps more so in Charlotte than in other markets.
The number of…
Last night at the site of its planned Tryon Place development uptown, Crescent Communities hosted an event designed to spark a community conversation about how to make Charlotte a better city, and executives expressed hope that the office and hotel project could be a catalyst toward that end.
The event, called “Skyline Charlotte,” was held at the repainted Goodyear auto service center on South Tryon. It was the first in a planned Skyline series in which Crescent will invite members of the community…
Duck Donuts will start serving its made-to-order donuts in Dilworth this summer.
The goal is to open the 1,500-square-foot shop in July, says franchisee Scott Plassman.
The eatery will be located next to Dolce Ristorante in the Kenilworth Commons on East Boulevard.
Shopping center owner Edens is “very excited about (Duck Donuts) as it is a good add to the center and a pretty popular concept new to the market,” Lyle Darnall, managing director with Edens, writes in an email.
The donut concept…
The Charlotte School of Law has more space than it needs uptown. So the for-profit law school has listed two of its floors for sublease in the Charlotte Plaza tower.
The 12th and 13th floors of the building total more than 49,000 square feet.
The law school leased 10 floors totaling about 250,000 square at Charlotte Plaza in 2012. Dallas Bragg, senior director of marketing, says the school intentionally leased extra space at the time to accommodate future growth, but it will not need the floors…
Ed O’Keefe, deputy general counsel and global legal operations executive at Bank of America Corp., is leaving the company (NYSE:BAC) to join Moore & Van Allen.
O’Keefe, who was general counsel at the bank from 2009 to 2012, will join the law firm’s litigation practice group next month.
“It’s an honor to welcome Ed to Moore & Van Allen,” Ernie Reigel, chairman of Moore & Van Allen, said in a news release. “He is a highly distinguished member of the financial and legal community and…
A New York-based real estate investment group has purchased the Charlotte Plaza building in uptown Charlotte for $160 million.
An affiliate of JFR Global Investments, headed by Joe Friedland, recently closed on its acquisition of the building, which was listed for sale last year by real estate firm Hines.
The 27-story tower at 201 S. College St. totals 645,000 square feet and is 91% leased. The building is anchored by the Charlotte School of Law, which signed a lease for 10 floors totaling about…
Charlotte City Council approved a rezoning Monday night that clears the way for a major mixed-use project at the Charlotte Golf Links site in south Charlotte.
The rezoning proposed by developer Lincoln Harris for the 194-acre site, a former golf course at Providence and Ardrey Kell roads, faced no neighborhood resistance at a City Council rezoning hearing last month.
The rezoning will allow the development of up to 700,000 square feet of office space, 250,000 square feet of retail space, 500 multifamily…
Retail real estate firm Edens has purchased the Myers Park Center, a Harris Teeter-anchored retail development at the corner of Providence and Queens roads, for $22.5 million.
The 75,000-square-foot center is anchored by the two-story, 42,000-square-foot grocery store, which opened in 2013. Other retail tenants include Lumiere, Charlotte Rug House, Charlotte Ultra Running, Splurge, Myers Park Nails & Spa and Fancy Pants & Tootsies Too.
The sellers of Myers Park Center were two companies managed…