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Smart Growth failure and Dilworth
John Hood’s column today focus on Smart Growth. It begins: The cult commonly known as the Smart Growth movement has proven to be remarkably resilient in the face of empirical…
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The latest in the Vue saga
Foreclosure. And probably a conversion into apartments. Which really should surprise no one. Which is not to say that local economic development types like the trend, because renting doesn’t tie…
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County Misleads on Tax Impact of Reval
Hey, maybe I’m wrong, but this Mecklenburg County video on how to appeal your property tax revaluation — with new values due in county mailboxes any day now — strikes…
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Downtown W-S condo auction
Two- and three bedroom downtown Winston-Salem condos originally listed between $329,000 and $1.1 million will be are being auctioned, with opening bids between $75,000 and $220,000. Yes, I realize this…
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Make The Vue DNC HQ
If speculators who put down $25K up to ten years ago to “buy” a unit in Uptown’s The Vue condo high-rise are balking at closing on the units, why not…
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How Much Did WCNC Get for Condo Advertorial?
If the answer is zippy — why run a wet-kiss to an Uptown condo development? Refer them to the sales side next time.
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Meanwhile, down in Raleigh……
Take note of Tony Foriest’s bill and read what’s going on down in Raleigh, where sales of a downtown condo project have stopped: Hue, the multicolor building that is the…
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Catalyst Goes Fully Non-Condo
Back in February we told you this was coming. The 27-story, 462 unit Catalyst tower has flipped from condos to apartments. In addition original developer Novare Group has been edged…
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EpiCenter Condo Bust
Well, we knew this was coming, right? The Charlotte arm of Flaherty & Collins Properties is liquidating with no 50-story condo tower built on top of the EpiCenter. Short-term that…
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The Vue: Bue-Hue
Hey, how’s that Uptown condo boom hanging? Folks we’ve got something like 40 months worth of condos already, why would lenders continue to pour cash into the pockets of developers…
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Condo, Condo, Who's Got the Condo?
So who thinks we get another 100 condo units Uptown to go with the 2000 already empty or in the pipeline? Another 100 or so to compete with the shadow…
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Wells Fargo v. Wells Fargo
The bank is suing itself in a condo foreclosure proceeding down in Florida, paying lawyers on both sides. Really nothing to say.