Office Suites Plus is constructing a S2 million, 15,000-square-foot building in the University area that will be its third Charlotte location.
Tire building at 1914 J.N. Pease Place, near Mallard Creek Road, will have 65 office suites, three meeting rooms and a teleconferencing center, among other features.
Last month. Lexington. Ky.-based Office Suites Plus leased 22,000 square feet hi the Fairview Plaza building hr SouthPark.
That lease is in addition to the 18,000 square feet the executive-suites company occupies at 6047
Tyvola Glen Circle, the firm s first Charlotte location. “We have always done very well in the Charlotte
market,” says Jay Baughman, Office Suites Plus president.
S.C. Hondros & Associates Inc. is general contractor for the University-area building. St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Arc 3 Architecture designed the building.
Murphy & Co. opens office here
Marketing services firm Murphy’ & Co. has opened a satellite office in south Charlotte and expects to have about 20 employees here by’ y’ear end.
Tire company has leased about 4,000 square feet at 11301 Carmel Commons Blvd., near N.C. Highway 51.
Greenwich, Conn.-based Murphy & Co. focuses chiefly’ on Internet and interactive marketing.
Charlotte offers the kind of labor pool the company’ has been looking for, say’s Warren Jay Smith III, Murphy’ & Co. managing director and leader of the local office.
Tripp Guin of CB Richard Ellis arranged lease negotiations. Justin Hunt of the Charlotte Chamber assisted Murphy & Co. by providing local labor and wage information.
Dixon Hughes grows in SouthPark
Accounting firm Dixon Hughes has expanded its SouthPark office to about 31.000 square feet from 17,000.
Tire expansion in The Morrison Building at 6525 Morrison Blvd. will allow the company’ to eventually double its local work force to 250.
Dixon Hughes occupies the top floor of the five-story’ building as well as much of the third and fourth floors.
Tire Lionstone Group of Houston bought the 115,000-square-foot building last y’ear for $18.5 million. Charles Jonas of Trinity Partners handled lease negotiations.
NEWS & NOTES
Hill Partners has added three executives to its commercial real estate team.
Brokers Christopher Sheppard and Emily’ Wooten will be responsible for prospecting new retail clients, negotiating leases and coordinating new tenant openings. Sheppard was most recently’ with Sperry Van Ness/Lighthouse Commercial Realty’ in Charlotte. Wooten had been a leasing specialist with Madison Retail Group in Washington.
And William Rooney has joined Hill Partners as a retail leasing manager. He most recently’ was director of leasing at Sheild Property’ Co.