Tech firm AddShoppers relocates to former Chobani space at Charlotte Plaza

Charlotte-based AddShoppers, a social marketing and analytics platform for e-commerce companies, has relocated to the 16th floor of the Charlotte Plaza building, where it has subleased 5,200 square feet from Chobani Greek Yogurt. The company had been operating out of roughly 800 square feet at Packard Place, the uptown entrepreneurship hub, but with 20 employees had outgrown its space, says co-founder and CEO Jon West. Last month, the company moved into its new space, which was occupied by Chobani…

Is Charlotte’s housing market stabilizing? Experts weigh in

Home prices in Charlotte were up 5.6 percent in April from a year earlier, according to a widely watched monthly index released Tuesday. That marks a slight slowdown in the annual growth rate, which lagged the 5.8 percent price increase posted in March. However, it's still greater than the rates recorded for the local area in January and February. The April figure also puts the city ahead of national trends, the latest Standard & Poor’s Case-Shiller Home Price Index shows. Charlotte’s month-to-month…

Knight Foundation investing $1.5 million in initiative for Historic West End

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is investing $1.5 million to help create a business-improvement initiative for the Historic West End neighborhood that will be led by Charlotte Center City Partners. The investment is designed to foster economic development in the area, located just west of uptown Charlotte and anchored by Johnson C. Smith University. The city of Charlotte will spend $20 million on public infrastructure improvements in the area over the next five years, and the CityLYNX…

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Allen Tate on his first sale and the best advice he ever received

I was out of town on vacation last week but was saddened to hear about the death of Allen Tate, the founder and chairman of residential real estate firm Allen Tate Co.

When I first heard the news, I thought immediately of a Q&A that I did with Tate back in 2010, when he was inducted into the N.C. Business Hall of Fame.

At the time, the residential real estate market was still reeling, and Tate, who could not have been nicer, talked about the advice he was giving his Realtors in that challenging…