Uptown office tower listed for sale

The owner of First Citizens Bank Plaza has listed the uptown Charlotte office tower for sale. The 23-story building at 128 S. Tryon St. totals 476,987 square feet and is 62% occupied. Michigan-based real estate firm Osprey Investment Co., which owns the tower, has hired commercial real estate capital markets firm HFF Inc. to market the building for sale along with an office property that Osprey owns in Sarasota, Fla. The largest tenant at First Citizens is CB&I, which occupies nearly 180,000 square…

Consumer Credit Growth Slows

The Federal Reserve Board recently reported that consumer credit outstanding rose by a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.7 percent, $193.0 billion, in May 2015, slower than the 7.6 percent rate of growth recorded in April 2015. Consumer credit outstanding now totals $3.401 trillion. The expansion of total consumer credit outstanding partly reflected an increase in […]