[CPEO-BIF] Design Center of the Carolinas, Charlotte, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Design Center owner eyes tower plans on nearby lot

by Susan Stabley
Charlotte Business Journal (NC)
April 9, 2009


The owner of Design Center of the Carolinas in South End wants to add a 
tower to the three-building complex.

But first, the company must get permission from the state because part 
of the site under consideration is contaminated.

Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.-based Ram Development Co. is mulling a 
residential tower - it could be condos, apartments or a hotel - with 
street-level shops and offices along West Worthington Avenue across the 
street from the center. According to documents filed with the state, the 
building could be 20 stories or taller.

In 2007, Ram acquired the 188,146-square-foot Design Center and nearby 
parking lot at Camden Road and Worthington Avenue for $28.6 million. The 
complex is the home to Pike’s Old Fashioned Soda Shop plus several 
design firms.

....

For the entire article, see
http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2009/04/06/story5.html?b=1238990400%5E1805105

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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