CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Beacon Partners’ latest mixed-use development in South End has reached a big construction milestone.
The RailYard, which includes two, eight-story buildings with 300,000 square feet of office space and 30,000 square feet of ground-floor retail, on Friday officially topped out, signifying the completion of vertical construction in a real estate development. The project is now about halfway finished and remains on schedule for completion in the first quarter of 2019, said Steve Piermattei, senior project manager at Edifice Inc., The RailYard’s general contractor.
Piermattei said from a construction perspective, The RailYard is unique because of the physical elements being used to pay homage to the site’s former use as an actual rail yard — in 1852, the first train that traveled between Charlotte and Columbia, S.C., passed through the site, said Matt Lucarelli, director of project management at Beacon. Today, the 3.5-acre block is bounded by Tryon, Bland, Winnifred and Winona streets in booming South End.
“Sometimes projects are just projects, but this one is important to Charlotte and to South End,” Lucarelli said.
Read the full story and check out photos of the latest construction progress here.
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