Charlotte Real Estate Agent Brian Belcher

A new building downtown has been completed and just had a topping out ceremony, according to the Business Journal. The ceremony is one of the first ceremonies that happens after a construction is completed. The building is 15 stories and will house almost 400,000 square feet of office space in uptown Charlotte Real estate.

The building is located at 440 South Church Street in uptown Charlotte.

According to the Charlotte Business Journal, the building will be applying to become a green building from an organization that certifies these things.

This is actually the building I just blogged about a few weeks ago. Duke Energy will be taking residence there when the building is fitted with what they need. It will keep a building full in this difficult commercial real estate market.

The building project was started several years ago when the economic outlook was much different.

The building is on the northwest side of Charlotte's uptown. It is only a few blocks from Bank of America stadium, the home of the Carolina Panthers. That means that it is visible from i-77, as you whiz past downtown Charlotte on the interstate. It's fun to know there will be a new building to peer out over Charlotte from.

Primrose School has bought a bunch of land in South West Charlotte, according to the Business Journal. It bought it from a developer who has started a mixed use project in the area. It highlights some of the great growth that has happened in Southwest Charlotte NC Real Estate over the past few years.

Primrose schools are an accredited early childhood development preschools. They already have a school near Park Crossing, which is very close to Quail Hollow Country Club. Quail Hollow will be the scene of the golf tournament that I just finished posting about.

Primrose says they are more than a daycare. It is an educational daycare, which they say is different. They try to prepare children for the rigors of school and life.

There are schools in 16 states. But that isn't the whole story. There are several schools in each metro area. There are schools in Raleigh and Greensboro, two metropolitan areas in North Carolina. They are smaller metropolitan areas than Charlotte.

The school is looking to expand its reach in the Charlotte market, which means more upscale daycare for Charlotte area residents. There are options here already, but this makes it an even bigger choice when looking for a preschool.

Duke energy has decided that it wants to be a tennant in Wachovia's building. This is great news for Charlotte NC Real Estate. Not only will a building be full downtown, but Duke Energy, a major employer in town will now have more of a presence downtown. Wachovia was building a new building, but after it was bought by Wells Fargo, it was up in the air as to whether it would occupy it.

This is definitely a great thing for Charlotte. Because if the building had sat empty, it would have affected corporate real esate, which would have been a bad thing. It also gives Wachovia a source of revenue and a home if Wells Fargo decides to move people to Charlotte one day.

Charlotte has distinct advantages for executives who want to move their business to a suburban style of city with lower expenses. It's one of the reasons that many companies have been moving their operations to Charlotte over the past decade.

Although it is a little out of the way for some people who need to be connected to the northeast, the weather is a big motivator. There is ample transportation out of Charlotte and the fact that the Charlotte Douglas International Airport is a USAirways hub means that flights to just about anywhere are readily available.

The hit netowrk show is looking for contestants in Charlotte North Carolina this week. Five hundred people showed up to see if they had what it takes to be on the show. It happened on Saturday, and everyone had to wait out in the rain to see if they would make it to the next round.

As Charlotte NC grows into a larger city, there are more casting calls like this for big shows. I'm sure Americal Idol has been out here recently or will be soon if it hasn't been. I don't really keep an eye out for stuff like that.

But one of my other posts highlighted the fact that big stars like the Jonas Brothers seem to think Charlotte is important enough to stop by the cinema here to pay a visit. That says to me that Charlotte has gone from being a sleepy textile town to a major market.

I don't know if they will be filming The Real World Charlotte anytime soon, and I'm not sure it would be a good thing if they did, but it seems like it could happen if Charlotte keeps experiencing the growth that it has been seeing here recently.

Robin Williams gave a performance in Charlotte NC on his stand up comedy tour. The performance featured jokes that were unexpectedly local. The Charlotte Observer said that he included a lot of material about Charlotte and it's NASCAR museum and a lot of other local current events. Huh. Robin isn't the type of comedian everyone likes when he does stand up. There are a lot of people who wouldn't take them home to meet their mother. But, that's okay. I thought that it was interesting that he used so much local material because as I understood it, stand up comics usually test out their material in open mic nights and in small venues before they get up in front of an arena to do their show. They don't just write it on a napkin backstage. A lot of these people are extremely funny, but it takes a lot of work to put together 2 hours of material. It leads me to believe that he didn't test out this material in clubs around here or else we would have heard about it. And he couldn't have tested this material in New York, because it wouldn't have made sense. I guess he is just supremely confident and a master of his craft.