Cousins Properties Inc. has no regrets about the price it paid to acquire the Fifth Third Center building in uptown Charlotte last year, but now the Atlanta-based real estate investment trust is shifting away from acquisitions and focusing on development opportunities in Charlotte.
That’s what Thad Ellis, a senior vice president with Cousins, told me in an interview this week. Ellis oversees the Atlanta, Dallas, Charlotte and Raleigh markets for Cousins, which acquired the 30-story Fifth Third…Cousins Properties looking for development opportunities in Charlotte
Cousins Properties Inc. has no regrets about the price it paid to acquire the Fifth Third Center building in uptown Charlotte last year, but now the Atlanta-based real estate investment trust is shifting away from acquisitions and focusing on development opportunities in Charlotte.
That’s what Thad Ellis, a senior vice president with Cousins, told me in an interview this week. Ellis oversees the Atlanta, Dallas, Charlotte and Raleigh markets for Cousins, which acquired the 30-story Fifth Third…
Commercial real estate and capital-markets firm HFF Inc. has signed a lease for 6,000 square feet at Fifth Third Center in Charlotte, and law firm Winstead has expanded at the uptown office tower, adding roughly 6,000 square feet.
HFF opened a Charlotte office last year, hiring investment sales specialist Ryan Clutter to manage the office with Travis Anderson, who relocated from the firm’s Dallas office to lead debt and equity placement for HFF in the Carolinas. Since opening here, the firm has…
Synchrony Financial, which recently leased the Rushmore One building at Ballantyne Corporate Park, says it plans to increase its hiring in Charlotte this year, adding positions in sales, marketing, customer service and other areas.
Although the company withdrew a request for $750,000 in incentives, it is moving forward with a 400-job expansion here. Synchrony currently has 300 employees at an operations center at Tyvola and Yorkmont roads.
Synchrony recently finalized its lease for the 152,000-square-foot…
A major mixed-use project proposed for the Charlotte Golf Links site in south Charlotte faced no neighborhood resistance at a City Council rezoning hearing Monday night.
No one spoke against the proposed rezoning for the 194-acre site, a former golf course at Providence and Ardrey Kell roads. The rezoning would allow for the development of up to 700,000 square feet of office space, 250,000 square feet of retail space, 500 multifamily units, 300 senior-living units, 200 single-family homes, a recreational…
Another transit-oriented, mixed-use project could be in the works for NoDa, and two apartment development firms have filed rezoning petitions for projects planned in Plaza-Midwood and on Providence Road.
NoDa: The Wellmon Family Limited Partnership has filed a rezoning application that would allow a transit-oriented, mixed-use development on approximately 9 acres on the west side of North Davidson Street, bounded by North Brevard Street, Charles Avenue, Matheson Avenue, Jordan Place and North Davidson…
The owners of the 700 East Morehead building, the last multitenant office building to be constructed in midtown Charlotte, have listed the property for sale with investment sales firm HFF.
Harris Development Group completed the 35,305-square-foot building in 2009. The four-story building is at the corner of East Morehead Street and Euclid Avenue and is fully leased. The building's largest tenant is accounting firm Elliott Davis Decosimo, which leases 22,000 square feet.
The building is owned by…