Real Estate
MacLean Curtis breaks ground in Mooresville
Dec. 3. MacLean Curtis breaks ground today on a 97,000 square foot plant on 24 acres in Mooresville Business Park East. The new plant, part of privately held MacLean-Fogg, will be worth on the order of $30 million, and employ as many as 150 people full-time. John O’Neill, general manager of the Curtis Screw plant in […]
High-end market has differences across price ranges
Home prices are still climbing in the Golden Crescent, but selling a swanky abode always was and always will be best left to the pros. For one thing, it takes stamina to sell homes that cost six, 10, even 20 times the cost of the average North Carolina home. Abigail Jennings, president of Lake Norman […]
Mike Griffin will discuss proposed Exit 27 at breakfast Wednesday
An Urban Land Institute study that calls for a new type of interchange around Westmoreland Road on I-77 near the Augustalee and Cooke properties will be the subject of the Newsmakers Breakfast Wednesday morning with Mike Griffin, a member of the Lake Norman Economic Development board. A new kind of interchange would “afford a significant branding opportunity […]
Standout properties shine spotlight on Lake Norman, Cabarrus
Some of the costliest homes in the Golden Crescent are either on the market, or have recently sold. Trump Realty has the highest price listing, an 11,574 square foot lakefront house on Thurstons Way in The Point in Mooresville. Asking price: $7.95 million. In Mount Pleasant, a stately 10,965 square foot house is on the […]
PDQ ‘land banks’ prime corner at Westmoreland and Hwy. 21
PDQ’s commitment to Cornelius appears to be pretty darn quantifiable. The Tampa, Fla.-based restaurant chain expects to close on the corner lot across Hwy. 21 from its flagship store, Tenders. The asking price for the 1.63 acre parcel was $725,000, according to Cornelius real estate agent Terri Mayhew of RE/MAX Executive. The deal is expected […]
Agent earns luxury designation
Cristi Sims, of RE/MAX Executive’s Mooresville office, has earned a spot on the Institute for Luxury Home Marketing’s Million Dollar Guild. Sims has been in the real estate business since 2001, specializing in Lake Norman and Greater Charlotte.
Baby Boomers provide a boost to home sales
Baby Boomers, who are accustomed to the world around them changing to meet the size of their demographic as well as their tastes, are changing the products homebuilders are building. Wells Fargo economist Mark Vitner says Charlotte has seen a huge influx of young people and Baby Boomers. “Charlotte was not thought of 10-15 years […]
Clyde Higgs leaving NCRC
Sept. 15. Clyde Higgs, executive vice president of operations and business development for the North Carolina Research Campus, will step down this month to become the chief executive officer of Atlanta Beltline, a multi-billion dollar economic development project in Georgia. In April he took over the campus leadership position from Lynne Scott Safrit, who also resigned. He […]
Homebuilding is back: Scottsdale company plans new home project
By Dave Vieser. Taylor Morrison Home Corp., based in Scottsdale, Arizona, is becoming a major player in the Charlotte area having just completed a $16.5 million purchase of 72 acres in Harrisburg. Most of the property, which was previously owned by Orleans Homes, is located in the Bridge Pointe section of Harrisburg. The purchase is part […]
