CHARLOTTE | Development Summary

[SeeMoreSkyscrapers]

Hey guys, I've seen a couple request for an inclusive Charlotte project thread over the past couple months so I thought I'd try and get one together. Boy was it a job too, attempted it last night and after 2 hours of work I got booted and lost all my info.... but here it is, finally.

Everything 10 stories or taller going up and/or proposed in Charlotte.

Color -> Height Key

Height >= 700ft
Height >= 600ft
Height >= 500ft
Height >= 400ft
Height >= 300ft
Height >= 200ft
Height => 100ft

Project Name Floor Count Height Units Use Completion Notes

Under Construction

1. Wachovia Tower 48 764' N/A Office 2010 Wachovia (LEED)


2. 210 Trade 50 601' 400 Condo 2009 Epicenter

Website

3. BofA Superblock Twr. 32 ??? N/A Office 2010 BofA (LEED)

4. The Avenue 36 425' 390 Condo 2008 Novare


5. Catalyst 27 338' 462 Condo 2008 Novare


6. TradeMark 28 334' 196 Condo 2007 Furman


7. The Park 21 275' 107 Condo 2008

Website

8. The Ritz 17 ??? ??? Hotel 2010 BofA
See BofA Superblock Rendering

9. Aloft 17 ??? ??? Hotel 2008 Epicenter


10. Metropolitian 10 ??? N/A Office 2007 Midtown


11. Ballyntyne Offices 2X 10 ??? N/A Office 2008 Suburbs


Proposed/Approved

1. The Vue 51 668' 403 Condo

Website

2. Wachovia Condo's 42 ??? 400 Condo 2010 Wavhovia


3. One Charlotte Twr. 40 ??? 99 Condo ???? Portman


4. Twelve (3rd Ward) 39 ??? 550 Condo/Hotel 2009 Novare
5. Novare Condo's 29-33 ??? ??? Condo 2010 Novare
6. Novare Office Portion 16-18 ??? N/A Office 2010 Novare


7. 300 S. Tryon 32 ??? N/A Mixed ????

Website

8. Nascar Tower 16 ??? N/A Office 2010 NHOF


9. Ghazi Southpark Tower 16-18 ??? ??? Condo ??? Southpark


10. Metropolitian Condo's 12 to 15 ??? 92 Condo ???? Midtown

11. The Sierra 15 ??? Hotel (On Arena Parcel)

12. 300 S. Tryon Condo Portion 14 ??? ??? Condo ???? Overlooks Park

13. Royal Court 11 ??? 112 Condo 2009



14. The citidan I 10 140 ??? Condo ???? 4th Ward



Proposed/Distant

1. Berkman Twr. 32 ??? 100 Condo ????


2. Trinity Partners (500 W. Trade) 20-30 X2 ??? 600 Rentals ???


OR:


3. Elizabeth Ave. Twr. 25 ??? ??? Condo ???? Grubb


4. The Citidan III & IV 2X 25 320 ??? Condo ????
See First Citidan Rendering (In Background)

5. Spirit Square 25 ??? 100-150 Condo ???? Furman


6. The Citidan II 10 140 ??? Condo
Mirror's first bldg.

7. Levine Property Mixed Mixed This Millenia


Rumor Mill

1. Trump Tower 40-80 Could Contain multiple towers
2. Ghazi Just across I-277 in South End
3. Residence Inn Site N. Tryon, site already demo'd (Possible Furman tower @25 stories)
4. Furman Twr. Behind Trademark
5. 11 story tower Near Tremont on S. Blvd.
6. Federal Courhouse Maybe Someday
7. Multimodal station development Possible tower

If you have any additional renderings, construction updates, request or info. on any of these projects please post them here. (I'd like to keep it to one rendering per project on the main post though) Help me keep this thread up to date guys!

If you see any errors please PM me to have them fixed.

[atl2phx]

good to see a charlotte thread here.....there's much to keep track of. thanks!

[Wheelingman04]

Damn, those towers are gorgeous!!

[kazpmk]

Nice to finally see a Charlotte thread. I didn't know BofA Superblock or the Overture already began construction.

[Visiteur]

Most of those look pretty good. It will help enhance Charlotte's cosmopolitan image greatly.

[SpeedoPro]

what about Trump's tower? does anyone have pics of it?

[SeeMoreSkyscrapers]

Update: 5/28/07

Added a couple renderings I was missing:
-Trinity Parners (500W. Trade) development 20-30 Stories X2 (Two Possibilities)
-Ghazi's SouthPark tower 16-18 Stories

-Also site work has begun at Royal Court, once they begin making substantial progress here I'll move it up into the U/C Area.

-Official Groundbreaking for The Vue has been set for July 12th 2007. Minimal Site prep and demolition of existing structures has commenced. Will move it up to U/C when Excavation begins.

-Trump rumor has been confirmed (Charlotte Observer, City Officials) and they have been in town feeling out the market. Possibility of more information in the next few months.

[rickydavisfan21]

By the way the condo tower for Wachovia is underconstruction. Both towers are being built at the same time.

[RockHillJames]

Thanks for putting this together. I'm sure it was a lot of work!

Hopefully we'll have some Trump renderings to post soon...

[SeeMoreSkyscrapers]

Hmm, really wish they wouldn't have combined these two threads considering none of the photos work in the other post. Can anything be done about this? It was slipping away into the archives but then one of the mods brought them together unfortunantely.

Ohh well, As per the wachovia condo's I'm waiting untill excavation of the entry ramp is done before I'm adding it to the u/c list since no work has been done specifically for that portion thus far. Should be another month or so.

[James Bond Agent 007]

^
There were two threads on the topic so I combined them a few days ago.

But yeah, you're right, the other one was a pretty useless thread so I just un-merged them and trashed the other one.

[kazpmk]

Construction updates from urbanplanet.org forum

New Wachovia office tower
UC pic by grodney
The Wachovia condo tower has NOT yet begun


The Vue
Prepwork
Rumors of Aug 23 groundbreaking
pic by urbancharlotte


Bank of America "Supertower" and Ritz
UC pic by Mobuchu


Trademark
UC pic by Mugen682


210 Trade
New rendering by CharlotteGamecock

UC pic by Mugen682


The Avenue
UC pic posted by Mugen682


Where did all the Charlotte forumers go??

[VA_Gentleman]

Thanks for transferring all the updates over here. There is a lot going on down there but no one covering it. One of my best buddies just moved to Charlotte but he's not at all interested in buildings and construction so he'll be of no help. Hopefully there will be some more active Charlotte forumers, otherwise keep up the updates.

[Dralcoffin]

Thanks, SMS, for starting this thread. Charlotte already has an outstanding skyline for a city its size, and looks to only get better. There are cities many times bigger that would kill to have Charlotte's skyline. I especially like One Charlotte Tower.

And a request: could you please make the Spirit Square rendering smaller? Something that blurry and big is not nice on the eyes.

[mayhem]

Tons of awesome towers going up in Charlotte! Can't wait to see it's skyline progress.

[CHAPINM1]

I'm also keeping my eye on the Charlotte thread, despite all the great projects, the Wachovia project I am most excited for and will be the most fun to watch rise!

That's cool in the Wachovia project construction update you can see the tunnel that was mentioned on Emporis.

[Dale]

Hang on, what did I miss ? Will Wachovia feature a pedestrian tunnel under Tryon ?

[SeeMoreSkyscrapers]

Alright guys, made a quick update:

-Added/changed info on 15 story Sierra hotel on the small arena parcel
-Changed BOFA Superblock rendering to a newer (Nicer/smaller) one

Other things to note.

-I've seen the newer rendering for the ritz on the contactors website and its nice, almost as nice as the original proposal but still much better then the previous glass box representation. Another thing to note is the BofA is seeking LEED Platinum certification for their superblock project. Very few bldg's reach this certification. I hate that we don't have a height for the office tower yet but I'd guess its in the 470-510 range. The first major pooring of concrete for the hotel foundation took place the other night.

-The wachovia first street project is moving quickly (As seen in the above pictures, thanks btw.) The tower portion has reached ground level at one corner. Expect it to start rising above ground in another month or so. Clearing is still taking place for the condo portion but I'll move it up to U/C as soon as they get underway (Trust me).

-Novare's 3rd ward project will be accelerating soon with the arrival of mobile cranes and caison equipment onsite this last week. Catalyst caison and foundation work should be well underway in the coming months with the 15 floor Office tower starting the begining of 08 and the 39 story Twelve following soon after.

-300 S. Tryon site has been seeing some action with soil sampling and the arrival of construction trailors and mobile crane equipment. They have some clearing work to do onsite but this is def. a step in the right direction. This is one of my favorite projects as it will fill in one of the last surface lots along tryon street and help fill out Charlotte's smile a little.

-Nascar HOF site has been cleared and excavation has begun for the underground parking garage. Should be a while before they start actual structural construction however work is well under way.

-The park condo's have toped out.... wow.... Many people where happily proved wrong on this one. Even though the tower isn't that tall (270ft) its definitely making its presence known.

-Trademark should be 100% complete soon, so I'm anxiously awaiting when I can remove it from the list. Avenue still has a while to go (Interior finishing wise) but should be finished by the end of the year. (That blue glass is glorious, great tower)

Thats all the new news I have.... or could remember at least.

[oreo]

heres a few pics of avenue (?) from my recent trip across the US

taken july 30th

i guess you can see trademark in this one too






i dont know if this has been said before (probably has) but the wachovia office tower looks really f-in good.

While driving around Charlotte we saw 2 very deep holes around the downtown area. Judging by the pictures in this thread I'm going to guess that they were Wachovia and BofA.

[themaguffin]

That's an impressive list. There seems to be a LOT happening there. It seems that Charlotte is hitting another level and hitting a stride.

Has retail been developing as well? Is the area a destination for locals (other than sport and work)?